Color me dubious

I've lost count of the number of times stories like this are tossed out there only to be shown to be utter bullshit.

I'm going to get out front of this one and say it now:

Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, meanwhile, told The Associated Press security officials had foiled a plot that would have put hundreds of al-Qaida men at critical guard posts around Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the U.S. and other foreign embassies, as well as the Iraqi government.

A senior Defense Ministry official said the 421 al-Qaida fighters were recruited to storm the U.S. and British embassies and take hostages. Several ranking Defense Ministry officials have been jailed in the plot, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.

I've no doubt there are elements of truth to this, specifically those parts discussing corrupt Iraqi Defense Ministry Officials.

Al Qaeda is the universal boogeyman useful in all instances for anyone affiliated with the Bush Administration, or wishing for carte blanche from the whoever needs an excuse or a claim as a diversion.

On a day when a mere seven dozen Shiia were slaughtered after several dozen Sunni had been slaughtered the day before, it sure is good timing to raise the spectre of the universal boogeyman.


International James Buchanan though is out there pretending there is not a civil war.