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[Wojtek Sokolowski]

>> "Instead, it appears that the Sudanese factory was selected as a target,
>> more or less randomly, as part of a "message" the U.S. wished to send, a
>> message that singled out no particular country or group, but warned that
>> all would be subject to random acts of U.S. violence when it suited
>> American needs. That is, in itself, the very definition of terrorism..."

That does not make much sense.  Hitting random targets does not seem like a
very effective deterrent strategy.  A much more productive one would be
identifying targets of great symbolic and political importance to the enemy
(such as mosques or even Mecca itself) and promise automatic destruction of
these targets in case of any terrorist attack.  That, of course would not
be politically acceptable.

I think a more plausible explanation is lousy intelligence gathering
capacity of the US.  

wojtek