They 'want' US citizenry to remain confused & upset by the prison scandal, the beheading just negated that.
I am happy that we agree to disagree on this point but both cases are valid arguments.
Cheers
Doug
#2 Was just remembering that the last time a Bin Laden sanctioned act of horror unified the US, Bin Laden (& his Taliban allies) lost the one country they had conrol of (plus 'some' legitimacy in) at the cost of 1000s of lives & paved the way for George Bush to conjure up a reason for invading Iraq.
Is it a case of al-Qaeda org is it that they just don't learn, or that they figure that if they keep trying enough (at so upsetting & unifying US citizenry) that they will win ? - Only result I see is that Bush can justify further grand-scale military adventures & get senate & public approval to carry them out.
I believe that acts like this one do more to keep Bush in office & thus keep up his focus on destroying al-Qaeda's potential to ever achieve their 'grand' Andalusian goals.