On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:41:53PM +0000, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > * The `L' shaped ambush was one part. > > * A second part was having the bodies mutilated. > > * A third part was having enough of the worlds' press there so the > mutilated bodies would be shown or there existance made known. (I > personally have not looked at any pictures.) > > One or two of these outcomes might have been done by people acting > irrationally. But for all three to have succeeded, as far as I can > see, required preplanning. Yes, all three might have occured without > preplanning; but probabilistically speaking, preplanning increases the > likelihood all will occur.
I agree. I haven't heard any more plausible explanations than yours. > The crowd may be filled with irrational people, but I doubt the > planners were. And the planners counted on crowds of people who hated Americans enough to gather round the mutilated bodys and lend their "moral" and verbal support to the desecration. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
