Remember when Hadayet shot up LAX and the FBI said they couldn’t make an exact ID? The whole time, they were searching his apartment and carting away his computer and records, and finally announced his name as the press caught on. By that time, the FBI had secured the apartment and taken away what they needed.

After all we are dealing with people that want to establish a world wide caliphate and bring back the middle ages. Reality is not their strong suit.

They think in terms of strong horse, weak horse.

Ah, but Yamamoto was a member of a civilization, while Osama (or his shadow) is not. Takes one to understand one.

BTW, thank you for the insight.

As many people have observed, any terrorist activity probably helps Bush. However, Al Qaeda has been rather tone deaf when it comes to assessing US reaction. As any Israeli military officer will tell you, Arabs don’t change. They will tell that they face an upgunned 1948 threat. UBL has had his perceptions formed [or warped] by Clinton’s weak responses. I don’t think he truly understands what makes America tick. Yamamoto understood that having failed at Pearl Harbor the war was lost. Perhaps we can send copies of ìTora! Tora! Tora!î to UBLís mountain home.

This is probably my one and only post on this tape because I suspect that I will be reading the assessments in tomorrow mornings briefing book.

Also ABC will not run the tape if it is judged authentic. It could be a BBC-like trigger for action.

As if that’s a bad thing.

Remember tens of thousands of these goons went through the training camps in Afghanistan. There was no problem recruiting before they’d ever heard of Bush.

Now we’re killing them.

IIRC, they bagged a number of people to force their governments to withdraw their troops from Iraq, only to find that those governments didn’t have any troops in Iraq. Oops.

In keeping with my nom de Net, I suggest we adopt the simplest hypothesis consistent with the facts, namely, that Islamofascists would rather have the softer enemy than the harder one.

In any case, to think that they would prefer Bush to enhance their recruiting is silly. By that logic, Kucinich’s election would presumably demoralize Al Qaeda so much it would disband!

Oh wow, you simply are not getting it. The terrorists were successful in Spain. Some of them may not quite grasp the possibility that Americans might react differently. They also suspect that John Kerry will wimp out at the first opportunity.

That’s exactly my point man! Every time there is a terror threat, Bush’s numbers go UP. Anyone with a television set or access to a computer knows that. It makes you almost think that those who make threats want Bush to win.