10/16/2004
Bin Laden in China? Not sure of the provenance of this article (though it appears to come from El Mundo), but there's still the likelihood of an October surprise so I thought I'd float it.
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good for you postiing the bin laden news. i wouldn't have found it otherwise. though google news does have it this a.m., i wouldn't have thought about going there. early anyway
Posted by: donaldaucutt | Oct 17, 2004 7:51:51 AM
Re: Bin Laden in China. This is probably just a highly imaginative piece of Spanish journalism, but the significant assertion is the continued conflation of the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq, i.e., "The capture of Bin Laden would virtually guarantee the reelection of George Bush Jr., as it would confirm to the millions of undecided voters of the U.S. that the war against terrorism was judstified after Bin Laden had authorized the attacks of 9/11 against New York and Washington." Maybe Senor Cheney leaked it to the Spanish. Nobody I know doubts the justification of the war on terrorism.
Posted by: Glynn | Oct 17, 2004 10:01:16 AM
I don't believe this particular story/situation is true, but I have always suspected that Bin Laden would be captured days before the elections to assure the re-election of Bush. It was reported six months on Iranian news that Bin Laden had already been captured and the US was holding him in some safe foreign place for the most advantageous time to show him to the world. Now, the question is...how does the the capture of Bin Laden justify the Iraqi war?
Posted by: Patrick | Oct 17, 2004 3:49:56 PM
>It was reported six months on
>Iranian news that Bin Laden had
>already been captured
Consider the source. This is the same Iranian news agency that reported all kinds of bizarre conspiracy theories over the past few years.
The AP reported that someone had been arrested on the Kuwaiti border with chemical weapons from Iraq. Does that mean you believe it?
>there's still the likelihood of
>an October surprise
Why do you imply an October surprise is likely? If it's just a hunch, then there's no likelihood whatsoever. A year ago a conspiracy theory claimed the Saudi's were planning to drop oil prices before the election to help Bush. Gee, that never happened did it? This kind of BS must be called out. Conspiracy theories are wild guesses and nothing more.
Posted by: rrgg | Oct 18, 2004 11:30:56 AM