Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands

[Rosco T.]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html

Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands

Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday June 19, 2004
The Guardian

A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands.
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, due out next month, dismisses two of the most frequent boasts of the Bush administration: that Bin Laden and al-Qaida are "on the run" and that the Iraq invasion has made America safer.

In an interview with the Guardian the official, who writes as "Anonymous", described al-Qaida as a much more proficient and focused organisation than it was in 2001, and predicted that it would "inevitably" acquire weapons of mass destruction and try to use them.

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The fact that he has been allowed to publish, albeit anonymously and without naming which agency he works for, may reflect the increasing frustration of senior intelligence officials at the course the administration has taken.

Peter Bergen, the author of two books on Bin Laden and al-Qaida, said: "His views represent an amped-up version of what is emerging as a consensus among intelligence counter-terrorist professionals."

[kerryin2004]

1. If he truly wanted the direction to change...

He wouldnt of published this anonymously...Whoever this is needs to step up for the betterment of his country!!

[LittleApple81]

3. He would not have published it anonymously? Yes, he would. Look

at what happens to people with no power or connections (or even with those) when they call BuschCo on their misdeeds. Would you risk your neck out at this point?

[ConsAreLiars]

2. The author is just stating what was obvious from well before

the invasion of Iraq began. Obvious at least to anyone who understood why the 9/11 attack happened and was not surprised. The news here is that the "intelligence agency" has decided to allow this to be published and the clear understanding on the "inside" that Smirk and Sneer have acted exactly in accord with Osama's fondest fantasies.

[Hekate]

4. What is it going to take for *s poll-numbers to crash?!!!!

I don't understand it I don't understand my fella murkins at all.

Hekate