Posted on 10/22/2008 12:11:16 PM PDT by presidio9
According to the "prediction market" of Rasmussen polls, Barack Obama has an 87 percent chance of winning the presidential election. That's a pretty high number, but if there were a prediction market in which people who've worked in counterterrorism would bet on the likelihood that we'll soon be hearing from Osama Bin Laden, the number would almost certainly be even higher.
A surprise could be of the proverbial October variety, or it could come sometime after the election—perhaps within the six months that Joe Biden said would produce a major test of a President Obama. The record clearly shows that jihadists see the run-up to an election and the months just afterward as an opportune time to act.
Everyone remembers the Bin Laden video that was released days before the 2004 presidential election and the Madrid train-station bombings that occurred 72 hours before Spain's national elections in March of that year. When the conservative government of José María Aznar mistakenly attributed the attacks to Basque separatists, the public punished his party, which was felt to be pretending that its unpopular support for the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. The socialists, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had been trailing in the polls, but after the government's blunder, they thumped the conservatives by a five-point margin.
Those are only the best-known jihadist interventions. Alongside them should be added the first bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, a little more than a month after Bill Clinton took office, and the attack on the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, three weeks before that year's Bush-Gore matchup. Last year, radicals attempted multiple car bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland, three days after Gordon Brown's June 27 installation
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And doing so would be very much their national security prerogative.
Joe Biden is privy to intel he’s not supposed to reveal, but his gaffestar stumbling causes him to comment on what he knows form secret intel and tries to turn it to boost his messiah.
Oh come on, Chucky Schummer tosses a bomb into the Indymac bank and causes a massive panic run on it’s cash which starts the dominoes falling to assist the democrats for the election and you don’t think terrorist activity doesn’t work in America?... It was just a financial bomb not a C4 bomb.
I’m not so certain that muslims across the globe don’t believe it as well. All those small donations from all over the world...
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