I know that I am not breaking any news here. In fact, I wasn't sure if it was even something that I should write about here but this morning I decided that it was. Last Wednesday evening the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Burgas was rocked by a suicide bomber. A bomb went off killing five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver. Scores of people where injured in the attack as well.

The bombing has been all over the news from CNN to the BBC and major newspapers like the New York Times as well as the Bulgarian media and English language media in Bulgaria. Aside from the initial report of the bombing I've found it nearly impossible to keep up with the details.  Many reports contradict each other while others claim to have new information but in fact just rehash old details.

The NYT has been covering this story since Wednesday and over the course of the last few days has reported <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/world/europe/explosion-on-bulgaria-tour-bus-kills-at-least-four-israelis.html?src=recg" target="_blank">on the event</a>, the release of video tape from the airport with the suspected bomber and today they are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/world/europe/inquiry-seeks-accomplices-of-bomber-in-bulgaria.html?_r=1&amp;smid=tw-nytimesglobal&amp;seid=auto" target="_blank">reporting that the official inquiry is interested in finding and identifying the bomber's accomplices</a>. The reporting here seems measured and serious while many of the other pieces I've read seem rushed and sloppy.

It's an interesting problem. This is the first terror attack in Bulgaria so neither the Bulgarian police nor the Bulgarian media has a precedent for how to handle or investigate a bombing like this. Experts have been called in from around Europe and from the States to help investigate the actual bombing and plenty of people and new papers have been speculating about the identity of the dead suicide bomber, which groups he has links to and who helped him pull this off.

So what does all of this mean for those of us living in Bulgaria?

Well, it means lots of questions. Questions that no one seems able to answer. The big question remains: who was the suicide bomber. Nearly a week later no one seems to know. This also means that there's been lots of blame shifted around and plenty of accusations have been passed out. All of this has been topped of with a large dose of political posturing.

While the questions remain: who was the bomber and what group was he working with. There are no clear answers. As such it appears that the media is in the process of substituting answers with conjecture and supposition.