Other than the fact there is no evidence of an al Qaeda link, I suppose you have a point.
I didn't do the investigation, so I can only rely on news reports. I've not seen any that expressed doubt over AQ's involvement, and it is well-settled that AQ *DID* carry out that bombing.
But there were others -- obviously, sometime around 03-04, the incidence was dramtically reduced. Coincidence? I don't think so.
* April 2002: Explosion at historic synagogue in Tunisia leaves 21 dead, including 14 German tourists.
* January 2002: Kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
* May 2002: Car explodes outside Sheraton Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14, including 11 French naval engineers.
* June 2002: Bomb explodes outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12.
* October 2002: Nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, kill 202, including 88 Australian citizens and 23 Britons.
* November 2002: Coordinated attacks in Mombasa, Kenya; 16 killed in a suicide bombing at a hotel, while surface-to-air missiles were fired at a chartered Israeli airliner.
* May 2003: Suicide bombers kill 34, including eight Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
* May 2003: Four bombs targeting Jewish, Spanish, and Belgian sites in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 33 and injuring more than 100.
* August 2003: Suicide car bomb kills 12, injures 150, at Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
* November 2003: Explosions rock a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, housing compound, killing 18 and wounding 122, including many workers from Egypt and Lebanon.
* November 2003: Suicide car bombers simultaneously attack two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 25 and injuring hundreds.
* November 2003: Two truck bombs explode outside the British consulate and the headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 26 and injuring hundreds.
* December 2003: Attempted assassination of Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff.
* March 2004: Train bombing in Madrid, Spain, kills 190 and injures more than 1,000.
* March 2003 - March 2004: ongoing attacks against civilians in Iraq, especially large bombings in Najaf and Karbala against Shi'a pilgrims. |
