Act of God or ‘terror attack’?

Both Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi and al Qaida took responsibility for this week’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook the U.S. East Coast and cracked the Washington Monument.  “Despite betrayal by devils and traitors, we have struck back at the cowards in Washington,” Gaddafi said in a radio address.  “Moving those tectonic plates was child’s play compared to what I plan in coming days.” An Al Qaida spokesman refuted Gaddafi’s claim, saying their loyal fighters in Waziristan had gathered to call down down the curse of Allah upon their enemies just moments before the quake occurred. A State Department spokesman denied both claims, along with a late charge from televangelist Pat Robertson that the temblor was the result of “quantitative easing” by the Fed.