As Britain and Egypt struggle to absorb the effects of terrorist attacks on their soil and determine who was responsible, both countries are asking the same two questions: Were the attacks linked, and was Al Qaeda involved? ... several senior intelligence and counterterrorism officials based in Europe and the Middle East said that they would be surprised if the two attacks were operationally or directly linked. ... There has been a tendency, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, to immediately blame Al Qaeda after a terrorist attack of unknown origin, even if there is little proof an outside group was involved. It is less terrifying if the terrorists are an amorphous outside enemy rather than one that is based internally.
Whether or not there was an operational link between ANY two attacks might be important to police, but to NO ONE ELSE. The question BUGS ME because it reveals BAD-THINKING: it reveals a vestigial way of thinking about jihadoterror - it treats jihadodterror as a law enforcement problem, rather than a WAR. And make no mistake about it: This is WAR -- and in WAR, assigning one attack to one jihadist group or cell or to another jihadist group or cell is a distinction WITHOUT a difference; it's like - in WW2 - assigning one attack to one NAZI army division or another; who cares - we still gotta defeat ALL NAZIS! The enemy in this war is jihadofascism - an evil ideology which transcends borders. Whether cells communicate or not, and whether or not there is a central command structure or not is interesting talk, but worthless in war. ALL jihadofascism - IN ALL ITS FORMS - must be wiped out EVERYWHERE; it must be wiped off the face of the earth.
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