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I really don't know. I listened to an NPR story that broke away to a BBC story, and I listened to a BBC story on the BBC News Hour, and I have been seeing snippets of their stuff throughout. For some reason there seems to be something wrong. My initial guess was that this one didn't fit a pattern that is extremely dear to their terrorism expert pundits? This was an organized attack, and falling back on the lines like "the usual pointing fingers of blame towards Pakistan" just weren't appropriate or insightful, given that this isn't just fingers this time and it's a really dangerous situation. Pakistanis are even asserting (among some intellectuals) that someone is trying to force a war between the two countries. What seems clear at this point is that it was/is (there is still fighting going on) an attack with military weapons, and that it originates in Pakistan with little enough doubt that Pakistan doesn't seem to be disputing that part that much.
