Monday, February 25, 2008
Don't Panic Down syndrome al-Qaeda bomber story false
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM
The U.S. and Iraqi governments claimed the Feb. 1 suicide bombing of a Baghdad pet market was carried out by two women with Down syndrome duped by al-Qaeda into carrying the bombs.
Subsequent reporting has uncovered that, other than the fact that the women didn't have Down syndrome or any evident ties to al-Qaeda, the governments' claims were spot-on.
Remember, these are the same people who keep telling you the surge is working.
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"any evident ties to al-Qaeda" aside from the whoe suicide bomber in iraq thing, which generally leads one to suspect that they may have some ties to al qaeda in mesopotamia, a foreign-led terrorist organization which the new york times claims is a homegrown sunni extremist group.
AQI's has indeed been responsible for horrible attacks in Iraq. However, there has been a systematic effort by the White House to exaggerate AQI's strength as well as to conflate AQI with Bin Laden. "Vaguely al Qaeda-like" and "Al-Qaeda" are two separate things. And please give me a link to a New York Times story about AQI's roots that does not acknowledge the group's foreign-born operatives, or the late Abu Musab Zarqawi's Jordanian birth. I'd be curious to see it.
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