Rubbing salt in the wound: Ansar al-Sunna

Ansar al-Sunna taunts the US:

“First they said it was a mortar or rockets, then they said it was a suicide operation with local materials, and so on,” the statement on Ansar al-Sunna’s website said.

“Are they really this stupid, that they still don’t know how they’ve been hit, or was it too painful to admit?” it said.

The statement, dated December 23, repeated a claim on Wednesday that one of the group’s “martyrs” had carried out the attack.

For a more complete victory Ansar al Sunna needs the Americans to overreact and go on a rampage in Mosul, thus turning more of the locals against them. The US may be obliging.