Puzzling
More than anything, what puzzles me about the thwarted Christmas terrorist attack is that anyone actually took responsibility for it. The news was very explicit about how the “bomb” wasn’t anything more than a fizzling firecracker, and the guy actually had turned his underwear into a bomb, his legs and torso getting badly burnt in the attempt.
Upon reading this sort of thing, had I been the lead guy over at the terrorists’ main headquarters, I would have said, “Er. Yeah. Hm. I think we should maybe just let this one go. That guy’s on his own.” To top it off, if the failed terrorist talked and admitted which organisation funded him, I would have roundly denied it.
How smart are these cells if they’re willing to make themselves look incompetent?
