WorldNetDaily: Al-Qaida claims power blackout
So the other sandal drops. The communiqué gives no details of how the attack was carried out, however. So in assessing the "credibility" of the message, we have to ask ourselves:

1. Are the senders of the message who they say they are?
2. Did they really do what they said they did?

In this context, other military analysts, among them Colonel Dave Hunt at Fox News Channel, have already said that the US government was just a little bit too quick to wave off any suggestion that the Northeast Blackout of 2003 was sabotage, whether by Muslim terrorists or anyone else. Furthermore, the communiqué made the precise boast and demands that I predicted:

1. the release of certain convicts, whom Al-Qaeda are pleased to regard as prisoners of war, and
2. the immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq (and also, interestingly enough, from Israel, where we have no troops, and Kashmir--same thing).

::Submitted for your war and rumor of war [Matthew 24:6] files.