The Invisible Hand

Nope. No Terrorists Here.

Al Jazeera reports that Polish troops captured seven al-Qaida terrorists in Karbala just before the coordinated bomb blasts that murdered hundreds of Shia Muslims. Aljazeera.Net - Al-Qaida members held on eve of Karbala

That seems to fly in the face of the denials issued by al-Qaida floowing the blasts in which they basically said Shi'ites are infidels but we're not killing them at this time.

Andrew Sullivan speculates that throwing support behind the Shia would help stregthen the hand of the only countervailing force to the medieval Wahhabbis.