[piasa]

Oddly missing from that article, mention of Ahmadinejad's letter to PM Merkel. Planting some suitcase bombs isn't the jihadist way, is it?

An Iranian shot across the bow?

I think the 2001 anthrax incidents were a shot across our bow- the effort to blackmail just didn't work.

[GoLightly]

Have your read his letter?

An Iranian shot across the bow?

IMO, yes. Merkel didn't preserve Ahmadinejad's *honor* by refusing to taking him seriously enough to respond directly to him. Allowing the content of it to become public set him up for ridicule & added insult to injury.

I think the 2001 anthrax incidents were a shot across our bow- the effort to blackmail just didn't work.

You could be right. I'm not sure. It kinda had Iraqi fingerprints on it, didn't it? I read that it was from the same line that some American bio-tech firm sent to Iraq ages ago, but I don't know how reliable that information was.