Something to ponder

[pecunium]

When some member of this administration goes someplace like Iraq, or Afghanistan, it's a secret.

Not just the President leaving his guests to go have turkey in Baghdad, but Rumsfeld, Rice, etc.

So how did the Taliban know Cheney was going to be there?

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[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure.

I'd have to look at the timelines; of the announcements, in detail.

The reports I heard (with grain of salt) are that the Taliban claimed they were trying to kill Cheney, with the attack.

The attack is, to the best of my knowledge, consistent(in that that sort of thing hasn't been happening in Kabul, much; the MO there seems to be rockets, and firearms; except for a few cases of targetted car-bombs) with them making a specific attack.

So, did they know it was Cheney, per se, or just some US official? I don't know. If they said they were trying to kill Cheney, before the announcement was made that he was there, then we have an answer.

On the flip side, we might have announced his presence, to make the Taliban look dangerous (i.e. "Oooh look, they want to kill the VP") and gin up support at here, and then they played into that by claiming he was the, specific, target.

TK

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Failing further information, which can change my mind if it's valid, I think they had the brains to take advantage of things when it turned out that their regularly-scheduled suicide bombing coincided with Cheney's presence. It makes them look good, even if they didn't get close to him. And they could always hope the defibrillator wouldn't go off in time to save him.