[John Jamieson]

Shopping list:

Springfield,VA (Hamas Cell) southwestern corner of I495 loop at I95. Closest to the center of all shootings.

Laurel, MD (Al Qaeda Cell) on I95 toward Baltimore, 8 miles from northeast corner of I495 loop. Closest to Bowie child shooting.

Potomac, MD (Hezbollah Cell) 4 miles west of northwest corner of I495 loop. Closest to western loop shootings

Herndon, VA (Al Qaeda & Islamic Jihad Cells) 10 miles west of I495 loop. A little farther than Potomac.

[Man of the Right]

We're in a period similar to the phony war in World War II. We're at war, but the country is on a peacetime footing. As the environment grows more hostile, one suspects PC will go by the board, but PCers are stilling running things.

[ellery]

The more developments that trickle out, the more this doesn't seem like AQ to me. It does, however, seem to track with Hamas, Hizbollah or Islamic Jihad. We know the various terrorist groups "compete" to see how many Israeli innocents they can kill (whoever can kill the most gets the most new recruits). Could we be seeing a challenge here to AQ's global terror dominance by another group (e.g., Hizbollah recruiter: those crazy AQs, they just murder people for fun. WE murder people to get fellow Muslims released from prison, or for blackmail $$$...)