London Bombing: Home Grown Terrorists?
Remember after the Oklahoma bombing when the U.S. wrongly assumed it was an international terrorist attack? Is the same thing happening in London? There are a few parallels emerging. Right after the London bombing, U.S. and British officials surmised al-Zarqawi and his international al-Qaeda group were behind the attack. Then the bombs turn out to be home-made, weighing less than 10 pounds apiece and composed of readily available materials. Now, the New York Times reports,
That finding supports a theory gaining momentum among the authorities that the plot was carried out by a sleeper cell of homegrown extremists rather than highly trained terrorists exported to Britain.
Over at Huffington Post, Max Blumenthal analyzes the different theories, including one that the one-eyed, one-handed cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri, whose terror trial is supposed to begin in Britain Tuesday, is behind the attacks. Blumenthal concludes the U.S. is spinning the al-Zarqawi theory to gain support for its theory that Iraq is a key enemy in the terror war:
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