The problem with that gang of usual suspects --Bin Laden, Iraq, Hizbollah, Egypt's Muslim Brothers, etc-- is that they're supposed to be under constant surveillance. The CIA, the Mossad, the NSA, MI5 are all supposed to keep track of them.
If you look at those groups and countries and others with similar ideas and/or interests you are talking about a lot of people. The Mossad is somewhat focused on these groups but the CIA, NSA, MI5 ect have there attention spread across these and the Chinese, and still (although perhaps to a lesser extent then in the past) the Russians, and the IRA and elsewhere. Better methods and more resources (or atleast more of the current resources focused in this direction) may be needed but even with these no one can count on finding out about every planned attack before hand.
I find it unlikely that Massod is or was totally a puppet of the Russians. He fought them pretty fiercely when they where in Afghanistan. Also I don't see why it would be in the interest of either the French or the Russians would push a puppet of theirs to do something like this.
Tim |
