The lack of any claims to responsibility is unusual. This sort of makes me wonder if the attack was carried out by a team whose sponsors got cold feet about the attack but too late to stop the operation.
This has happened before in American history. 1865 -- the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth was acting as a Confederate agent -- after the South had already surrendered. (True history, but little-known because very much not in the interests of the elementary and secondary school systems of any American section).
Here, the motive for the cold feet might have been fear of the likely American response.
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Date: 2013-04-17 02:31 pm (UTC)This has happened before in American history. 1865 -- the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth was acting as a Confederate agent -- after the South had already surrendered. (True history, but little-known because very much not in the interests of the elementary and secondary school systems of any American section).
Here, the motive for the cold feet might have been fear of the likely American response.