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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42300)	8/11/2004 10:18:44 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

This report has been filed from DC in a Australian daily. It highlights how the Bush Administration could be playing politics with the fear of the American public. I have marked some words in red to highlight that. Also notice how all the other major publications did not think that this was credible to print but the Washington Times rushed out with the story. <font size=3> Al-Qaeda plan targets key figure Washington August 12, 2004 A high-profile political assassination, triggered by a new message from Osama bin Laden, will lead off the next major al-Qaeda attack, The Washington Times reported yesterday. US intelligence officials said the assassination plan was among new details of al-Qaeda plots and would be aimed at a US or foreign leader either in the US or abroad, according to the newspaper. Planning for the attacks to follow involves "multiple targets in multiple venues" across the US, an official was quoted as saying. "The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the US economy and to undermine the US election," the official said. The paper's sources said there were intelligence reports, <font color=red>some sketchy, <font color=black>that a new tape from bin Laden would surface soon. "The message likely will be the signal for the attack to be launched," one official said. A second US official was cited as saying that one intelligence agency was <font color=red>aware of unconfirmed reports of a new tape. <font color=black>"There may be such a tape, <font color=red>but it hasn't surfaced and we haven't seen it," <font color=black>the newspaper quoted the official as saying. The Washington Times reported that the plot was among detailed al-Qaeda plans found on a laptop computer belonging to captured al-Qaeda suspect Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan. Information from Khan, a computer expert, prompted the US to issue a security alert for financial institutions in Washington, New York and New Jersey and led to the arrest of a dozen al-Qaeda suspects in Britain. - Reuters theage.com.au