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To: Brumar89 who wrote (113545)	8/31/2003 10:52:34 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Read the <snip> again. Here it is in even more truncated form, with the important part bolded by me: By nightfall, two people were in custody, both of them Iraqis, said Hussein Yassim Hamed, the Najaf police chief. Hall, the Marine officer, said the men were questioned by U.S. forces, but he expressed doubt they were involved. They identified themselves as residents of the southern city of Basra and were picked up two hours after the bombing at a restaurant near the shrine. "It seems these guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. "I don't think anything's going to come of that." Hall offered three scenarios for those behind the attack: former Baath Party operatives working with foreigners, rivals of Hakim within the Shiite community and his former allies in Iran seeking "some sort of retribution." "There's some plausibility for each one of those so we're going to look at the evidence we're able to acquire," he said. Nineteen people may have been picked up, but they were almost surely the wrong people. Especially if the car, as a couple of reports have put it, had been parked there for as much as a day before the explosion. This was a sophisticated attack. The people who did it didn't stay in town long if they weren't from the town, I would guess. It won't be easy to catch them. They will need good intel, and, while they keep saying they are getting more tips, I doubt if they are really getting more good tips. Read Salam's blog on his house getting searched.