It is very possible that these terrorists learned this "vile tactic" from the Americans (to provoke war in Vietnam, to name just one of many places), and the Americans learned it from the Germans (the Reichstag burning, again just one example), and so on.
It is very possible that these terrorists learned this "vile tactic" from the Americans (to provoke war in Vietnam, to name just one of many places), and the Americans learned it from the Germans (the Reichstag burning, again just one example), and so on.