Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

This article makes an extremely good point, "any major terrorist attack on US soil this year will boost Bush’s popularity and guarantee his re-election."

According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld, the new organization, known by its Orwellian moniker as the Proactive Pre-emptive Operations Group, or P2OG, terrorist attacks will be provoked which would then require "counter-attack" by the United States on countries "harboring the terrorists".

P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to "quick-response" attacks by US forces.

The Los Angeles Times has revealed the creation of an organisation by US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld called the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group" Its purpose is to "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception". The PPOG's role is to manufacture the terrorism that is to be combatted.
http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/news/p2og.html

Bush needs a terrorist attack preferably on U.S. soil to be reelected.

He will provoke or manufacture an attack maybe even on U.S. soil for the sake of his re-election according to P2OG.

Given that Bush’s popularity has taken a dramatic drop and yet he persists in alienating voting groups such as gays, Arab/Muslims and anyone eligible for social security before the election it is clear he is quite sure of his re-election.

Thus is the dilemma of bin Laden or any terrorist, a significant strike against the United States will give an advantage to Bush. This they don’t want. Bush will have to initiate the terrorist strike real and provoked or a product of the criminal minds of this administration. -Am


As-Safir (Beirut)
A taped message by Ayman al-Zawahiri that aired on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera this week, in which the man who is Al-Qaeda’s second in command threatened the US with major attacks, may prove to be a priceless gift to US President George W. Bush in an election year, senior columnist Sateh Nouriddine wrote Thursday.
Nouriddine said that Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had moved from being two leaders who shook the world to two media commentators who want to increase the number of their disciples among Muslim extremists.
“The most serious part of this message was Zawahiri’s threat to send ‘death brigades’ to attack targets inside the US as a reaction to Bush boasting about combating terrorism, and in order to ‘teach the American people a lesson’ similar to that of Sept. 11 , 2001,” Nouriddine wrote.
The columnist said it seemed that Zawahiri was not aware of the US polls that indicated that Bush’s popularity was plunging and that most Americans wanted him out of the White House.
“Zawahiri’s message may prove to be a boring and empty threat like many previous ones bin Laden and Zawahiri have made, but Washington will consider this threat as an invaluable gift to Bush who presents himself to the US as a ‘war president’ with a ‘divine mandate to rid the world from this evil,’” Nouriddine said.
“If Zawahiri wanted to teach Bush a lesson, he failed to do so with his recent message, because any major terrorist attack on US soil this year will boost Bush’s popularity and guarantee his re-election.”


http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/28_02_04_i.asp