Pakistani told to capture Osama in July.....per Josh Marshall

[RedEarth]

as if we couldn't guess......the evil thugs in the white house will do anything to stay in power.


May 10, 2004 -- 09:23 AM EDT // link // print)
Just to pass on some added information, about which we'll be saying more. There is chatter in Pakistani intelligence circles that the US has let the Pakistanis know that the optimal time for bagging 'high value' al Qaida suspects in the untamed Afghan-Pakistani border lands is the last ten days of July, 2004

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_09.php#002941

[Edgewater_Joe]

1. So Much For An "October" Surprise

Rove has got to be desperate about now -- the prison scandal's getting worse (and we haven't yet gotten to what are apparently pictures of rapes and orgies), the economy's 'recovery' isn't trickling down, oil prices keep climbing, and Bush's spending is neither elevating his numbers or driving Kerry's numbers all that far down.

If he has to 'burn' Osama to try and prevent a Kerry bounce post-July, he's in deep crap.

[still_one]

2. bullshit

they are not timing the capture of bin laden, if they can get him they will no matter when

[NewJeffCT]

5. Osama is already frozen in carbonite

They just have to decide when to defrost him...

heck, even some Republicans believe Bush has him on ice waiting for the right time to unveil him.

[cspiguy]

6. agreed. If they could get him to change the subject today they

damn well would.

[troublemaker]

14. The point is the hunt

They want a big Pakistani operation in the press at that time. (If it catches someone all the better.)

[jean]

3. US Intel: Thanks for the heads up. bush nemeses will plan accordingly

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. August 23

That's the speculation I heard from a CIA contact (who, unlike Bob Novak, I won't name)

That timing actually would make sense.... it would give them a week of media hype before going into the Bush coronation/WTC exploitation fest.

[cspiguy]

7. maybe he could give the Keynote at their convention.

n/t

[whistle]

8. Hey, Osama is caught in July...

...in August Dubya gets total support by freepers at NRC, in September the Saudis increase oil production and the price of oil drops 10%, then in October BushCo unleashes their surprise crisis and on November 1, 2004 martial law is declared in the United States followed by the release of an American rework of Leni Reifenstahl's 1935 film "Triumph of the Will".

[MoonRiver]

9. The Pakistanis haven't exactly been reliable operatives.

Seems like they've bungled just about every job the US has given them.

[radwriter0555]

12. You mean like their ISI paying Atta 100K a month before 9.11?

They pulled that off quite well.

[MoonRiver]

13. Good point.

I think the Pakistani heart still belongs to Osama. They're playing U.S. for a sucker, imho.

[radwriter0555]

10. LOL! Capture the Corpse? Bin laden has been dead for 2.5 years...

there is no way a man with advanced kidney disease survives in a cave or without dialysis.

[xchrom]

11. they are capabale of anything