7/27 London Copycat Bombings Just a Protest Against the War?

Remember 10 days ago when I thought that second London Bombing attempt was a copycat?

This article appeared on CNN.com today. Apparently they’ve arrested one of the July 21rst attempted “bombers” in Italy and he claims that is was an act of protest against London’s participation in the War on Iraq and seems to indicate that he never intended for anyone to die.

Hussain Osman, who is also known as Hamdi Issac, said the four men who partially detonated backpack bombs before running from their targets on July 21 were not working with the July 7 bombers who killed themselves and 52 travelers on three London Underground trains and a bus, the source said.

Osman also claimed the July 21 group was not working for al Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist organization behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, last year’s Madrid train bombings and numerous atrocities worldwide.

Further, the source said, Osman told authorities the bombs were meant to draw attention to anger over the war in Iraq and not to kill anyone.

“I am against war,” the source quoted Osman as saying. “I’ve marched in peace rallies and nobody listened to me. I never thought of killing people.”

Further more, the 4 men involved in the 7/7 attack were of Pakistani ethnicity while at least three of the men involved in the 7/21 “attack” were from East Africa.

Why admit to the crime but deny Al-Q connections if you are a true soldier of the jihad?

And if they really were just trying to protest the war, why pick this method?

Oy. What a messed up world we are in. Sometimes I think I’m the only sane one, but I’m in therapy, on anti-anxiety and anti-depression meds, and come from a line of family displaying signs of odd quirks and mental illness…still I do think I’m increasingly becoming one of the few sane ones left.

tags: CNN, London bombing, terrorism, anti-war, protest

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