I'm not usually a conspiracist

[yasmina27]

but reports of OBL's death got me to thinking. Maybe we need to break out the tin foil!

Does anyone remember the story from 2 weeks ago about a Hamid Mir interview?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2127981

Other articles (sources credibility unknown):

http://bsue.wordpress.com/
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/wanted-adnan-jumaa-for-suspected.html
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams092306.htm
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams091606.htm

In some of these articles, it states that there will be a message from OBL in 2 weeks (the articles are dated around the 12th and 13th) to initiate the next attack(s).

Can't find any sources for this, but I distinctly remember that after 9/11, I read that officials feared that word of OBL's death would be the trigger for a new wave of attacks.

So could this leak/rumor/misinformation be a "message" from OBL to go with the attacks, reportedly scheduled for the month of Ramadan, which begins today or tomorrow, depending on your location in the world?

[Monkeyman]

1. hmmm

[serryjw]

2. Why do I care about tin foil OBL

When I have * planning on attacking Iran before the election?

[hippiechick]

3. you don't think they might be related ?

... OBL's grieving minions 'launching' an 'attack' that could be conveniently traced to somewhere in Iran would be perfect cause for us to attack Iran, no?


:shrug:

[Sinti]

9. Sure would be a slam dunk for them - plus then they could reinstate

the draft without too much fuss from the OFUs.

[serryjw]

10. Maybe

But since when do these crazies need a reason? Too many posts on DU today that indicates that the ships are moving and end of October it will happen. IF the Muslim world thought that OBL was dead the entire planet would be in mourning..just don't think it's true

[Poppyseedman]

4. * isn't going to attack Iran before the election

That would be political suicide for the GOP.

* is going to attack after the election, if he does.

I personally doubt it. but I won't make a bet on it.

[Lerkfish]

7. your lips to god, but I still think you are going to be proven wrong.

I think they HAVE to attack Iran BEFORE the elections, if they want to do it.
They realize they will lose the republican majority in congress and will not be given a rubber stamp.
Therefore I think they will strike while they have the rubber stamp.

It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

[LeftyMom]

8. I'm thinking the war is the October Surprise

A few days before Halloween, don't give people enough time to get over the fear and the uptick of patriotism before they go to vote.

[Lerkfish]

11. It's what I would do, if I were Rove. I hope Rove would be wrong, but

by then the war would've already been started, and even if the dems take over, they'll have to deal with an ongoing war already in progress, rather than preventing one from happening.

[LeftyMom]

12. And they can play the anti-patriotic card on any Dem who opposes it

If they time it just right it might work. If they give too much time between the first bombs falling and the election people will wise up, too little and the political timing is too obvious. The response of the press is also an unpredictable factor.

[Cha]

5. I never was, either, until

el diablo and his band of avowed Orwellian devotees came on the scene but maybe I should have been.

[OzarkDem]

6. The OBL "story" was timed

to coincide with the Chris Wallace interview ambush on Clinton. Similar to the trick they tried with 9-11. Its not working, though.

[yasmina27]

13. You're all thinking differently from me

and I hope we're all wrong!