[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.

[aristeides]

If somebody were to take credit, would the media tell us?

[AntiGuv]

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.

Of course, that's true - and the odds of terrorist involvement rise exponentially in the event that a terrorist group does 'claim' the act. Until such time, the odds of copycat arsonists is much, much higher.

Y'all are missing the obvious nexus, however. The massive Sydney brush fires earlier this year might've seemed perfectly routine (they're a near-annual event), and there were even some kids convicted for a few of them, but Australia was an ally in the Iraq war! Australians were also the primary target in Bali.. ;^)

[AntiGuv]

It took me a few to remember how OBL took credit for USS Cole, but if I recall correctly now he had released a video either shortly before or shortly afterward where he's featuring a Yemeni knife and a map of Yemen in the background. He praised the 'daring' of the attack (or however he worded it) and rambled on about how the perps were now in heaven and how the US should expect more of the same, or something along those lines.