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Terrorism Today
10/07/2002

Instapundit posts an email from a reader who believes that terrorists attacked the French ship in Yemen and the mayor of Paris as part of a strategy to influence the weakest and most vulnerable of the "big guns" in the U.N.

Meanwhile, the Guardian reports about an intercepted satellite phone conversation between bin Laden and Mullah Omar that occurred about a month ago. It seems pretty phony to me that the world's two most-wanted men would chat on such an open medium, with Omar turning around to tell a friend that bin Laden said hello (as if to deliberately drop in the bin Laden-related term "the sheikh"). However, if it is a ploy, it might be part of a broader initiative.

And then there's Maryland. Fox News is referring to "the sniper" as one person. However, in passing, they did mention that President Bush has let it be known that he's watching the situation carefully.

This does seem to be the preferred season for this sort of event, with the anthrax letters beginning to appear around this time last year, the other Yemen bombing two years ago, and all of the other events that make September through November significant in this respect. I wonder if all of the holy days and holidays that come over the next few months have anything to do with it.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 10:59 AM EST