PURE DECEPTION – AT 7:22 P.M. ET:  Al Qaeda, knowing it has the attention of the world, spoke out today on the reason behind the airliner bombing – what the trendy left likes to call the "root cause."  Al Qaeda noses are growing longer already:

Al-Qaeda claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement picked up by US monitors Monday as the jihadists threatened attacks on Western targets and Yemen vowed no let-up in its campaign against them.

Al-Qaeda's Arabian peninsula franchise acknowledged in the posting on the Internet that a "technical fault" had caused the failure of the plot against Friday's Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, SITE Intelligence said...

...He used explosives technology developed by the mujahedeen in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) "manufacturing department," it added.

And...

The posting also called on Muslim soldiers in Western armed forces to repent for their service and kill all "Crusaders" by every means available, SITE added. 

"Crusaders" is a code word for Christians.  Calling on Muslims in Western forces to kill "Crusaders" is a call to repeat the Major Hasan massacre at Fort Hood.

And the root cause:

...a statement posted on an Islamist website in the name of Al-Qaeda threatened revenge for this month's attacks, in which 68 suspected militants were killed in eight days. Tribal sources and witnesses said many of the dead were civilian bystanders.

That is nonsense.  Every indication we have points to the idea that the airline bombing had been planned for many weeks.  A Christmas-day attack is not a last-minute idea. 

Expect more "root cause" talk from Al Qaeda.  This is the way they use events to propagandize, and to attract the sympathy of the Western left. 

December 28, 2009