recalling now
my comments on how once upon a time, 70% of the country believed that Saddam was behind 9-11....
....the following is fairly typical of the sort of "evidence" that lead to the absurd connections:
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Terrorism experts say the crimes bear the mark of Al Qaeda, and they fear they are the handiwork of the international terror organization's number two man in the Arabian Peninsula -- Said Ali al-Shihri, an Islamic terrorist who once was in American custody but who was released from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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note the chain of logic which allows 92bdad to conclude that these christian missionaries were murdered by a former Gitmo detainee --
1) the missionaries were executed
2) Al Qaeda has executed people in the past -- >
The missionaries were executed by Al Qaeda.
1) Said Ali al-Shihri is part of Al Qaeda
2) uh...nothing here
ergo....The missionaries were executed by a recent Gitmo detainee!!!
A similar line of reasoning can also help us to determine whether a woman is a witch:
1) Witches are burnt at the stake
2) Wood burns
--therefore witches are made of wood
1) Wood floats on water
2) Ducks float on water
Accordingly, if a woman weighs less than a duck, she must be a witch!
Something like this, anyhoo...
The point is that there isn't any evidence, just an emotional appeal (terrorism experts
fear that an evil-doer murdered good christians....boogity boogity).
You can fool some of the people some of the time...actually, you can fool most of the people something close to 99.95% of the time.