"Through the goddam looking glass we've gone" says Atrios, touting this detailed, but anonymously sourced account of how a top-level al Qaeda terrorist, under interrogation, told a story of the Saudis deliberately using al Qaeda to steer fundamentalist action outside their borders, and jointly funding the Taliban, along with Pakistan, to keep the fundies busy. If so, it would appear that our so-called allies in the War on Terror had more to do with it than the Iraqi sideshow, where victory is now strangling us.

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