re: #171 Obdicut

I asked for one source— that would be someone saying that they had a plan for attacking the compound but didn’t attack until there were widespread demonstrations. I looked through your other posts, and I can’t find it. Could you please provide it? I’m sorry if I’m being blind, but I don’t see that.

Post 58. It doesn’t explicitly say that they waited for the demonstrations to attack though - it’s a reference to pre-attack claims by al-Zahawi that he could attack the compound, and nameless other ‘leaders’ who said they’d just need a few hours notice to launch at attack.

And, I don’t dispute that it doesn’t “matter” whether we know that they attacked because of the video or not, in the sense that people are still dead either way and our strategies and policies will be changed in response without our input.

But the truth on a story that’s now out in the public eye does matter in terms of how people view their government. If there’s a battle to be fought here, if there’s a reason why a conversation like this “matters”, it’s that.