Uh, I hate to mention on tiny detail...

posted by The Vidiot @ 9:23 AM Permalink

But this would be a real trick

Excerpt: Osama Bin Laden About to Attack the U.S., Says Terrorism Expert

If he's dead.

Excerpt: Paris- Saudi intelligence services have determined that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in August, the French regional daily L'Est Republicain reported on its website on Saturday. The newspaper said it based its information on a document classified "defence secret" originating in the French DGSE intelligence services. According to the story, the DGSE informed President Jacques Chirac of the Saudi report on Thursday.

No, not THAT dead. THIS dead.

Excerpt: Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.

Update: The more I think about this, the more I'm fascinated by it. I mean, bin Laden was finally becoming and issue for Bush. The talking heads were finally getting around to bleating about how Bush never really focused on capturing bin Laden YET you had Rove going on about an October surprise and all sorts of warnings being generated in the faux press about Arabs in in America being told to get out of the country and that there's some sort of impending attack. Seeing as it's the French press that printed the report and we all know that Chirac and Bush don't always see eye-to-eye, well, could it be that the French are sticking it to George?

Hmmmm. Just a thought.

Update 2: OR MAYBE, bin Laden's body IS Rove's October surprise.

Hmmmm...