July Surprise?
Americans agree Osama bin Laden and his followers must be captured as quickly as possible. But according to an explosive new report in The New Republic , the White House is now demanding that the Pakistanis find high-value al Qaeda targets like Osama bin Laden before the November elections, preferably coinciding with the key events of the White House's political opponents. As one Pakistani intelligence source said, the country has been specifically told by the Bush administration that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any high value terrorist target] were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July" - the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston. [more] and [more]