This latest news from the Washington Times, via Yahoo News, is proof-positive, as far as I'm concerned, of the importance of questioning Bush exaggeration, as I talk about in my last diary.
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/8/11/171241/926
Here's the latest from Yahoo News:
Al-Qaeda is reportedly planning a high-level assassination against a US or foreign leader to disrupt the US presidential election, that will be set in motion by a new tape from its leader Osama bin Laden.
Quoting from unnamed US intelligence officials, The Washington Times said besides the United States, two possible places where the assassination would take place are Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
"The view of Al-Qaeda is 'anybody but Bush,'" said the official.
This kind of leak is outrageous, not to mention unfair, in making the "anyone but Bush" claim, and it's also a collection of wild assumptions, as the article I described in my last diary described, since it's difficult to see how an assassination in Saudi Arabia or Yemen would have much impact on the U.S. election.
Let me remind you of the conclusion of this British article entitled
Al-Qaeda computer geek nearly overthrew US:
A White House with a clear determination to draw paranoid conclusions from ambiguous data has finally gone over the top. It has now implied that the al-Qaeda computer geek arrested last month in Pakistan was involved in a plot to destabilize the USA around election time.
The White House is going over the top, and one wonders if it's in an effort, in the face of the Khan double agent revelations, to exaggerate and make the value of the Khan arrest so critical and important that we lose sight of the accusations (not adequately addressed as of yet) that we ruined a mole investigation inside Al Qaeda in regards to publicly announcing the Khan arrest, the details of such, what role he played, and then finally his name.
The Bush Administration has a clear record of exaggerating almost everything, manipulating science, and stretching truths, which leaves them in little position to be trusted without question.
We need answers to the Khan investigation, and I get into that in more depth and detail, as I mentioned, in this diary from earlier today.
Meanwhile, this latest 'official' leak needs to be condemned at the highest levels of our government. 'Anyone but Bush' my ass, in speaking of terrorists, and using obvious current political language (ABB), as well as combining their last desperate efforts at winning, by playing up the fear card, insisting that AQ wants to disrupt our elections, that Khan was a central part of that, and then ignoring that if Khan was so important, and linked to these plots, than if we hadn't exposed him too soon, we might have been able to catch these people instead of just warning about them and playing up fear and danger!