I'm convinced that this was well-planned, |
Obviously it was a very meticulously planned operation over a long period of time. A lot of organization, sophistication, a lot of technical sophistication, complete disregard of Kenyan and Tanzanian life. Therefore it would hardly be anything local as that you would find in Kenya or Tanzania. |
Since the embassy in Nairobi is right in the middle of downtown, you can't very well protect against a bomb, a car bomb, that just drives up the main road downtown and blows up. There is a similar situation in Dar es Salaam. |
The groups that are doing this without the knowledge and against the will of the Pakistani government -- but they don't have the control. |
The State Department budget gets cut so much that there is not enough money to provide for protection as well as other operations. |
They will certainly fight the Indians if provoked. There's no question about that, |
They're already diverting attention and perhaps some resources from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban on Pakistan's western border. So the U.S. has a very big interest in this. |