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...is sort of a confusing concept - at least to me.
The Night of Power commemorates the night Allah revealed the Koran to Mohammed. No one knows the actual night during Ramadan this occurred. It's narrowed down to one of the odd-numbered nights in the last ten days of Ramadan.
But that ain't all. Various groups disagree on what day is the first of any given month - there is no universally accepted standard within Islam, and therefore one group's odd day can be another group's even. I'm not going to bother with all the permutations.
Anyhow, if this was al Qaeda (or associated) action, this is what they could do on their "best night":
Mortars hit US military HQ at Baghdad airportAnd if it wasn't al Qaeda, then it was the best some other group could do, and AQ couldn't even accomplish that much.BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Militants fired mortar rounds at Camp Victory, the U.S. military's sprawling headquarters near Baghdad airport, after dusk on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of injuries, a U.S. military official said.
A Western security contractor at the base said he heard nine mortar rounds being fired and four explosions inside the perimeter. He was not aware of any casualties.
Such attacks on the base are relatively rare. Last month, an Iranian-made rocket killed one person in an attack blamed on militants loyal to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
As it turns out, 2 were killed and 38 wounded. I don't want to dismiss the numbers as insignificant, but bear in mind the "wounded" figure means injured enough to see a doctor - not (as John-Jack Murtha and others would have you believe) maimed for life. For additional perspective - I was on Victory Base Complex when this attack occurred and didn't know about it until I read it in the news today.
By the way, did you notice this quote from the Reuters story...
Such attacks on the base are relatively rare....and this one from CNN:
Such attacks on the base are not unusual, officials have said in the past.I guess both could be accurate. The last one happened on September 11, when al Qaeda tried to kill Bill Roggio.*
*(Kidding, folks, just kidding...)
