A correspondent has pointed out an interesting connection: not only was the date of the bombing of the Boston marathon – April 15 – the anniversary Ronald Reagan’s bombing of Tripoli in Libya in 1989, but the young fanatics who carried out the bombing had attended a mosque that was built with funds from the International Islamic Call Society which was headquartered in Tripoli before NATO went in and wrecked the country.
The Society was headed by Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam who is languishing in a pro-US prison somewhere in Libya. That is, if he is still alive. My correspondent asks why the US didn’t make more of these connections between the Boston bombers and the Islamists? Could it be that the US didn’t want people to wonder if the attack on the marathon might be a response to the US attacks on Libya?