posted on Aug, 26 2003 @ 04:25 PM
My take on this is the brand names
Al Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden
Saddam Hussein
have simply become effective marketing tools.
The mention of any or all of them is meant to incite fear and loathing in the audience receiving the message from any intelligence officer.
The Bush administration (Bush himself) specifically ordered the dismantling of inter-agency communications to stop true and useful information coming
into the public domain. This is very effective for cooking intelligence, being complicit (but claiming no warnings were received) in major attacks,
and controlling exactly what is spooned to the paranoid uneducated public at large.
Based on the previous performance of the Bush administration in terrorism monitoring and alerting, they could claim to have evidence of an Al Qaeda
'style' attack under preparation in any allied country or anywhere else any time, for purposes other than preventing it.
The Bush administration and its misuse of intelligence agencies is criminal and impeachable.