[Optimist]

Not that I am close-minded about a ME connection, but following most Terrorism events, you generally have at least one group, if not an abundance, willing/wanting to take credit. The point of terrorism is terror and making a case for your cause.

Unless this was a "practice run" or a test of effectiveness before the "big one" I don't yet see the Islamists directing this event.

That does not, however, mean that they didn't have a hand in the training, and our Okie boys went off half-cocked with their own agenda, spoiling the Islamists fun and timing.

If we start pointing fingers at the terrorist trainers (not that they shouldnt be held accountable and tracked down) rather than the perpe"traitors", we can probably trace much of this back ultimately to our Communist 'friends'.

[okie01]

"The point of terrorism is terror and making a case for your cause."

Unless it's not terrorism. And it's war, instead.

The first WTC bombing, which also had Iraqi connections, could conceivably have been the first blow in what is now a ten-year war.