Does this smack of the usual "intelligence" subterfuge? Plant conflicting stories, confuse the rubes, get the "right wing" folks knickers in a twist with no clear outcome? Add the Mossad, CIA, and AQ, we got us a Tom Clancy novel in the making.
Sounds like, a-guy-got-beheaded-by-terrorists subterfuge.
Let's turn an outrageous terrorist act into a Tom Clancy novel.
This thread is 800 posts long. I just got here. Is there really anything of substance in it?
I don't know. This reminds me of that pizza deliverman who blew up with the explosives strapped to his chest by unknown assailants. We never heard much about that after it was all over either.