The Bushs, Israel, and the October Suprise tactic.
The original October-Suprise
washington-report.org
as "middleman" in the 1980 deal, Israel had the subsequent power to blackmail the Reagan administration, and did. The question this raises is whether that vulnerability to blackmail also extends to President George Bush, who was running as vice presidential candidate on the Reagan ticket at the time the deal was made.
sonic.net
that Bush, while in Paris, met with Hashemi Rafsanjani, the second in command to the Ayatollah and now the president of Iran, and Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who was extremely powerful. Arrangements were apparently made to pay Iran $40 million to delay the release of hostages in order to thwart President Jimmy Carter's re-election bid.
For the second October surpize, Did Bush promise Sharon to stay out of his way while he dealt with Arafat if Sharon would agree to break up the Clinton Peace initiative?
time.com
Just when the world was beginning to feel like a safer place...
OCT. 2000
The Middle East violence began with skirmishes after Israeli superhawk Ariel Sharon visited the disputed holy site in old Jerusalem,
The conservative news spun the story as a caution for George Bush.
time.com
But events unfolded just as the Bush campaign aides worked.
guardian.co.uk
It's Bush games as usual, only this year Bin Laden has a surprise of his own.
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