The ID question is a good one indeed. Consider 2 possibilities:
1) ISIS really is behind the attack and it was planned by core people. They do have people in the command strucure who held high ranks in Saddam's military intelligence and they would know the red herring game as good as any intelligence officer elsewhere. The fact that some in the command structure are still only known by their aliases and not their real names shows that these guys are well capable of clever ploys to outwit investigators. Red herring ID is absolutely a possibility.
2) ISIS took responsibility while not being actually responsible, and the attack was performed by an amateur (relatively speaking). This is also absolutely a possibility.
It is basically impossible for anyone outside the intelligence community to say anything with any meaningful degree of certainty. It is also quite possible that the ID info that got to the media is itself a red herring planted by the investigating bodies. In the hush hush game, very few things are what they appear to be to the public.
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