Scathing Bush Expose--by CIA's 'Anonymous'

[indigobusiness]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html
Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands

Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday June 19, 2004
The Guardian

A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands.
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, due out next month, dismisses two of the most frequent boasts of the Bush administration: that Bin Laden and al-Qaida are "on the run" and that the Iraq invasion has made America safer.

In an interview with the Guardian the official, who writes as "Anonymous", described al-Qaida as a much more proficient and focused organisation than it was in 2001, and predicted that it would "inevitably" acquire weapons of mass destruction and try to use them.

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"For my money, the game was over at Tora Bora," Anonymous said.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. What did he expect to happen

[indigobusiness]

2. More:

Anonymous does not try to veil his contempt for the Bush White House and its policies. His book describes the Iraq invasion as "an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat did offer economic advantage.

"Our choice of timing, moreover, shows an abject, even wilful failure to recognise the ideological power, lethality and growth potential of the threat personified by Bin Laden, as well as the impetus that threat has been given by the US-led invasion and occupation of Muslim Iraq."

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There is another thread on this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x57567

[dweller]

3. Anon's previous publication

reviewed here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0529/p16s01-bogn.html

THROUGH OUR ENEMIES' EYES:
OSAMA BIN LADEN, RADICAL ISLAM, AND
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
By Anonymous

dp

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4. What good is an anonymous author?

No one will even pay attention to this.

[indigobusiness]

5. Don't bet on it,

This will be supported by the facts.

Who can trust their Constitutional protections anymore? This administration rides rough-shod on the Constitution. Even with whistle-blower protections in place, you'd have to be naive not to write this as 'Anonymous'. The mystery of who wrote it adds spice to the assessment. This has legs.

Deepthroat is still anonymous, look at his impact.

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6. hope you're right, but...

...look at all the books that have come out with facts supporting allegations of corruption on the part of the Bush administration. Maybe they have made a difference, time will tell, but the far right impunes personalities. THey'll just laugh it off as they would any anonymous report or news story.

[indigobusiness]

7. The laugh has died down

and trailed off, as of late. The chickens have come home to roost, so to speak, and it ain't pretty.

But, I know what you mean.

Teflon, anyone?

[struggle4progress]

8. Important!

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