Another al Qaeda strategic blunder
BBC:
"Bomb attacks on the British consulate and the HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul have left at least 25 dead and about 400 injured.
"The attacks are thought to have been carried out by suicide car bombers, and the UK foreign secretary said they bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda and associated organisations."
Like the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia the Turkish attacks distract from al Qaeda's campaign against the US in Iraq and make the Iraq attacks look like what the US describes them as, a part of the war on terror. By Attacking outside of Iraq, the attacks discredit their supporters in the US who want to describe Iraq as a Qaugmire. Making Saudia Arabia and Turkey quagmires takes the focus and pressure off the US.
BBC:
"Bomb attacks on the British consulate and the HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul have left at least 25 dead and about 400 injured.
"The attacks are thought to have been carried out by suicide car bombers, and the UK foreign secretary said they bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda and associated organisations."
Like the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia the Turkish attacks distract from al Qaeda's campaign against the US in Iraq and make the Iraq attacks look like what the US describes them as, a part of the war on terror. By Attacking outside of Iraq, the attacks discredit their supporters in the US who want to describe Iraq as a Qaugmire. Making Saudia Arabia and Turkey quagmires takes the focus and pressure off the US.
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