Originally Posted by tater

The statement stands. If an organization wants to take credit for some horrific act, why not target them along with the real perps?

A subway is blown up killing innocent people. Two groups take credit, Al Qaida, and Jihad-R-Us. If the latter wants to get recruitment milage, Islamic street cred, etc from the claim, they should get killed just as dead as the real perps, AQ.

There is nothing at all to lose by prosecuting both targets.

Note that this presumes foreign terror. If they are citizens, then we have to prosecute them in court instead of just killing them. That said, terror laws are written in such a way that they'd do serious time just for making a claim (don't joke about terror in airports!).

PS—the Administration is saying it's looking like terrorism, and at least one suspect is a pakistani-american.