[AntiGuv]

See my post #47. And, although AQ never explicitly took 'credit' for the USS Cole, OBL did appear in one of his little videos praising the action and obliquely claiming responsibility. In every instance of AQ terrorism, there's been some sort of eventual acknowledgment of their involvement, even if it hasn't been spelled out.

[William McKinley]

He's also taken some credit for some of the attacks on US servicemen in Iraq. So yeah, I guess your point that terrorists generally take credit for their deeds has merit. But one implication is that just because no group has 'taken credit' so far for the California wildfires doesn't mean that one won't take credit for it eventually.

And then we'll have to figure out if they were just trying to 'take credit' for something they didn't do, just to plant the fear in peoples' minds.