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  • CIA looks for signals in Bin Laden video
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tony Allen-Mills, Columbus, Ohio
    UNRELEASED portions of a new videotape from Osama Bin Laden were being examined by American intelligence officials yesterday as election campaign strategists vowed to prevent the Al-Qaeda leader’s surprise re-emergence from disrupting the final two days of the presidential race.
    The Central Intelligence Agency and other government officials were searching for signs that Bin Laden may have been seeking to trigger a terrorist attack in the hope of (…)

  • Maureen Dowd: Will Osama help Bush?
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Maureen Dowd
    WASHINGTON Some people thought the October surprise would be the president producing Osama.
    Instead, it was Osama producing yet another video taunting the president and lecturing America.
    After bin Laden’s pre-election commentary from his anchor desk at a secure, undisclosed location, many TV chatterers and Republicans postulated that the evildoer’s campaign intrusion would help the president.
    O.B.L., they said, might re-elect W.
    They follow the Bush strategists’ (…)

  • Osama’s Surprise Osama bin Laden as Global Shock Jock
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tom Engelhardt
    Looked at realistically Osama bin Laden’s intervention in our presidential election was undoubtedly an act of immediate organizational weakness, not strength. Had he had been capable of orchestrating the bringing down of another American tower or its equivalent, he certainly would have done so, but it was no less ingenious for that. His last major intervention, his self-scripted action-adventure film in real time, The Humiliation of America, cost his organization hundreds (…)

  • Bin Laden dancing to Bush’s tune
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    TEHRAN (MNA) — Only four days before the U.S. presidential election, suddenly a suspicious tape of Osama bin Laden is mysteriously “dropped off” at the Aljazeera office in Pakistan, warning of another September 11.
    As the Republicans have been dogged by criticism of the futile attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, the disappearance of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, and rising speculation about the possibility of vote-rigging, the airing of the videotape by the Aljazeera network seems (…)

  • OSAMA’S ’GIFT’ FOR BUSH BACKFIRES IN POLLS
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Anthony Harwood In Boston GEORGE Bush and John Kerry were tied in polls last night, suggesting Osama bin Laden’s terror tape had not swung voters.
    One Republican strategist labelled the tape "a little gift" for Mr Bush for focussing voters’ minds on terrorism - the party’s strongest issue.
    "Anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush," he said. But polls yesterday put support for the rivals at 46 per cent each - the same as last Sunday.
    In the tape, (…)

  • It’s Not Just Al Qaqaa
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Paul Krugman
    Just in case, the right is already explaining away President Bush’s defeat: it’s all the fault of the "liberal media," particularly The New York Times, which, so the conspiracy theory goes, deliberately timed its report on the looted Al Qaqaa explosives - a report all the more dastardly because it was true - for the week before the election.
    It’s remarkable that the right-wingers who dominate cable news and talk radio are still complaining about a liberal stranglehold (…)

  • Osama’s Election Editorial
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    So the bastard is still alive.
    He isn’t dead of kidney failure or rotting in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush. He wasn’t smoked out of his hole, and he in no way appeared to be on the run. The images broadcast on every American television station in the last few hours showed a man apparently in good health, clothed in traditional white and wrapped in a golden robe. His hands were steady and his voice was clear. From all appearances, Osama bin Laden is tanned, (…)

  • Osama bin Laden: The statement
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Following is an excerpt from the speech by the al-Qa’ida leader, Osama bin Laden, addressing the American people in a video, parts of which were aired by al-Jazeera television last night, as translated by Reuters
    O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.
    Security is an important foundation of human life and free people do not squander their security, contrary to Bush’s claims that we hate freedom. (…)

  • Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By WILLIAM KATES
    SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When the government issues a terror warning, the president’s approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.
    "The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell’s Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
    On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush’s (…)

  • Gary Hart: ’We said September 11 was going to happen. I was angry with myself for not doing more’
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Monday Interview: Former senator and twice-failed presidential candidate
    By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
    Gary Hart, the former senator and presidential candidate, has been around politics for a long time. That experience is telling him that John Kerry is going to win the US presidential election when America goes to the polls one week tomorrow.
    "It’s partly intuitive and partly based on several hidden votes that are not [shown in the polls]," he said. "The hidden votes are new (…)