From CNN:
Officials: Bin Laden guiding plots against U.S.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A plot to carry out a large-scale terror attack against the United States in the near future is being directed by Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda members, senior intelligence officials said Thursday.
Bin Laden and his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are overseeing the attack plans from their remote hideouts somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to senior intelligence officials
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/08/ridge.alqaeda/index.html------
I find it interesting that:
Two days ago, The New Republic reports that Bush is pressuring Pakistan to produce Osama and al-Zawahiri before November, hopefully during the Democratic Convention.
Yesterday, they issue a non-specific threat but don't raise the alert level (a strong sign it's political)
And now they use the name Osama to heighten the fear factor.
Seems like a logical progression. The sequence would be... they issue threats of a major attack; say Osama is behind those threats; pull Osama out of the deep freeze during the DNC; thus diverting attention from Kerry (and Iraq) while pretending to have saved the country.
Am I alone in thinking something like this is possible?