Taher Thabet*, 43, was at home in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19 when [after spying the column come down the road, he triggered his pre-positioned IED] around 7:15 he heard the detonation of the roadside bomb that struck a Marine humvee, killing the driver, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20.* Pathological Liars Anonymous associate member recently inducted...Thaher ThabetThe blast shattered Thabet's windows. [Thabet thinks in glee, "Oh, goody! Let's see how much carnage I caused! Ooops. Better stay low, they might put two and two together...that a real innocent would NEVER hang around in THIS neighborhood...or seek to ghoulishly and voyeuristically gawk!"] He ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their vehicles and heading for four homes on either side of the road. [Thabet thinks, "a'ha! Perfect, they are going to be running right into our clever ambush."]
"They went into one house. I heard gunfire, explosions and screams," he told TIME in an interview in Baghdad last month. "Then they came out and went into another. I could only stand and watch." [Thabet thinks, I COULDN'T STAND to watch anymore. TOTALLY humiliating. Our Arab brothers BEATEN! Cursed infidel dogs TOTALLY triumphant. Our plot completely failed. By Allah, I will make them pay. I will make heroic martyrs out of our fallen comrades...let's see now, how can I phoney up a story...'lessee...an atrocity, yeah, yeah, THAT's the ticket...!]
how serendipitously convenient that Taher Thabat just happened to be in the right place at the right time...Hmmmm what a coincidence !
And the line about how it takes time for the truth to come out....
more like it takes Time to twist the truth into it's prefered version