Eek! I love when I find someone talking about The Wire! Even better–it’s about The Wire and Al Qaeda! Okay, not that AQ is something to get excited over but the connection is brilliant. I was browing through Foreign Policy’s blog when I came across this post about the recent Al Qaeda member’s confession and how it echoes an episode of The Wire:

“I don’t know how many of you are die-hard fans of HBO’s popular television drama The Wire, but since joining FP in December I’ve become an addict. The Wire is a gritty, realism-drenched look at the interplay of drugs, crime, police, and politics in Baltimore, one of the most troubled cities in the United States.

Being a Wire freak, the first thing that popped into my head when I read Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession was: This guy is full of it.”

Why? In Season One of The Wire, Roland “Wee-Bay” Brice, a top hitman for the Barksdale drug organization, gets fingered for shooting a police officer. He then cops to multiple murders, including several that he didn’t commit, in order to protect the gang.

Might Mohammed be doing the same thing? I don’t doubt that he was deeply involved in numerous al Qaeda operations, including 9/11, of course. The man is a mass murderer. But it’s deeply suspicious that he’s confessing to so many plots—at least 31. Today’s Times story offers the following tantalizing clue…”

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