"Michael Scheuer, the CIA analyst and terrorism expert formerly known as Anonymous, agrees with the IISS findings and goes further. He has suggested that al-Qaida is likely so pleased with Bush that its agents might try to help his campaign. In an interview last summer, Scheuer told the Guardian that the White House and Department of Homeland Security alerts about a possible pre-election strike by the terrorists are credible but wrong about the purpose.

The aim would be not to depose the Bush administration but to "mount an attack that would rally the country around the president" and "keep the Republicans in power." As he put it, "I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now." --Bin Laden's candidate, Salon

So, some folks whose opinions are worth a damn think like I do. osama loves bush. any any attack preceding the election would be in order to ensure a bush win. I've been saying this since spain, where perhaps the terroristst were foiled by the election results-- or maybe not, the bad guys may have different strokes for different folks.

taking this to its logical conclusion, does bush really want to capture osama n gang? we've all heard the quotes about bush not caring much about him any more. Why not? why are we diverting attention to Iraq and away from al queda? of course we have plenty of terrorists in iraq now. and we're brewing more there every day.