OXFORD BLOGGER DEREK CATSAM has more news from London:

Yesterday I talked about al Qaeda’s whitewashing of its own history with the claims that its actions were aimed at British withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many seem to be buying this line, apparently utterly unaware that al Qaeda long ago declared war on the west, well before we had a military presence in those countries. Today Robert Fisk of the Independent muddles history, misunderstands chronology, and confuses causality with correlation . . .

There is only one real problem with this interpretation: It is utterly wrong.

But of course — it’s from Fisk!