Iraqi Blogger’s Central has a great roundup of the Iraqi discussion of who was behind the bombing:
Perpetrator: Al-Qaeda In Iraq (aka Zarqawi/jihadis) or ex-Saddam Regime criminals (aka Saddam’s Orphans) or both (aka The Return Party).
Purpose: To start a civil war for the purpose of general mayhem in the midst of which they can jettison the Iraqi democracy as unworkable and step in as Iraq’s nationlist, unity, and security dictatorship and protector of morality.
Who believes this story: Hammorabi does:
The barbaric and savage attack on the Shire of Imam Al-Hassan Al-Askari in Samara is a continuation of the barbarism of the Saudi Wahabi terrorism, which started such destruction against the entire ancient heritage.
Five theories and the various proponents are presented for you to digest. My personal theory is a compilation of two of these – Al-Qeada in Iraq is being supported by Iranian interests and the combination of the pooled resources was used to perpatrate these recent events.
Moqtada al-Sadr took advantage of a situation that happened by saying one thing while his followers did another.