Well, the car-bombing MO is certainly Palestinian...it wasn’t even that long ago that the Palis hit one of our diplomatic convoys with a car bomb in the Gaza Strip.
But why would Palis blow up Mugniyah? In Syria. Right next to Syrian intelligence HQ.
And then I think back to the deceased al-zarqawi in Iraq. He had a “big plan” to trick the U.S. into going to war against Iran by killing Iranians and placing their bodies at the scene of a large attack against U.S. forces in Iraq.
His idea was that Al-Qaeda was stronger in Iraq with Iran fighting the U.S. than with Iran officially nuetral and no U.S. bombers being retasked away from Iraq in order to instead hit Iran.
So it isn’t out of the question that Al Qaeda has revisited al-zarqawi’s old “get Iran into the war” plan...but with the twist of forcing Syria into the war this time, instead.
If so, then the idiotic and suicidal Palis would clearly be Al Qaeda’s go-to guys for such a mission inside Syria.
I just can't help but think smart guys (cough Israelis) made this thing look like a Palestinian bomb to mess with the minds of all kinds of folks. Clearly Hezballah, Hamas, Syria, Iran and AQ all have to sit up and take notice as to what has been happening lately. As dog said, we hit some tasty targets right next to a Pakistani base, the Israelis blew up a baby nuke plant in Syria, we've seen all kinds of purges of AQ in Iraq and grabbed great intel and now Big Chief uga Mug gets blown to bits. Seems like the good guys are sending powerful messages, with regularity and clarity.