If this is true, I think the person who said it is likely standing in the unemployment line this morning.<\/p>\n
According to a senior GOP-strategist<\/a> as reported by Thomas DeFrank for the New York Daily News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n “We want people to think ‘terrorism’ for the last four days,” said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. “And anything that raises the issue in people’s minds is good for us.”<\/p>\n A senior GOP strategist added, “anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush.”<\/p>\n He called it “a little gift,” saying it helps the President but doesn’t guarantee his reelection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n via<\/em> AMERICAblog<\/a><\/p>\n And if Osama’s tape is a fake<\/a> who turned it out?<\/p>\n The<\/a> Republicans<\/a> or the Democrats<\/a>?<\/p>\n According to Aljazeera<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n The tape was dropped off at the gate of the station’s office in an envelope on Friday, just hours before it aired, said Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in Pakistan.<\/p>\n “The Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera said today that it received the latest video taped message from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at its offices in the Pakistani capital.<\/p>\n We received it in Pakistan . . . Somebody dropped it yesterday at the gate,” Zaidan told The Associated Press. “The guard brought it to me along with other mail. It was in an envelope, I opened it and it was a big scoop.”<\/p>\n Zaidan said he transmitted the tape to Al-Jazeera’s headquarters in the Gulf country of Qatar immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If this is true, I think the person who said it is likely standing in the unemployment line this morning. According to a senior GOP-strategist as reported by Thomas DeFrank for the New York Daily News: “We want people to … Continue reading