08-27-2021, 11:28 AM
(08-27-2021, 11:12 AM)Dill Wrote: I don’t think it “highly likely” there was some taliban ok for a suicide bomber.
A suicide bomber from an enemy you’ve been fighting for 2 years—how easy would that be to control? If no western journalist has reported taliban deaths that is hardly clinching evidence.
I don’t know for sure if there was collusion, but at first whiff, this reminds me of February 2003 when neocons were sure that sworn enemies Saddam and Al qaeda were working together because “they ALL hate us”.
You don't need collusion at the organization level, you just need it at the individual level. If Al Qaeda had a sympathetic guard or two at a check point that's all they actually had to do.