Get the News, FOX. Al Qaeda Wants George Bush Re-Elected.
Reported by Ellen - November 1, 2004 -
On yesterday's FOX News Sunday, Democratic Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania stated that bin Laden wants Bush to be re-elected.
Smirking and incredulous, host Chris Wallace said, "Wait a minute. You're saying that you think bin Laden... would like George Bush to be re-elected?"
Governor Mike Huckabee, Republican governor of Arkansas said, "You've got to be kidding. I don't think anyone in America cares or knows who Osama bin Laden is for, for president."
Apparently, neither Wallace nor Huckabee were aware of this information published in The New Yorker magazine on August 2, 2004, (article begins on page 40): The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group claiming affiliation with Al Qaeda, also claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombings. The group sent "a bombastic message to the London newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi, avowing responsibility for the train bombings. 'Whose turn will it be next?' the authors taunt. 'Is it Japan, America, Italy, Britain, Saudi Arabia, or Australia?' The message also addressed the speculation that the terrorists would try to replicate their political success in Spain by disrupting the November U.S. elections. 'We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections,' the authors write. Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" are useful, the authors contend, for they stir the Islamic world to action."
