Analysts read unclaimed attacks as covert state sponsorship

Evidence

In the reports for 2003 in box 6.2, the phrase “no one claimed responsibility” ironically identifies those situations in which State’s analysts judged that the unknown actor represented some outside power. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 845

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 845
• XREF: connects to: Claimed responsibility for attacks both signals power and recruits adherents — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2154; State institutions secretly organized mob violence through the press

Broader Connections

• Claimed responsibility for attacks both signals power and recruits adherents #complicates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2154
• State institutions secretly organized mob violence through the press #exemplifies (0.78)