washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2008
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Washington may occasionally have a hard time calculating its interests. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, tends to know what’s good for it. Unsurprisingly, then, Pam Hess of The Associated Press reports that Al Qaeda’s clear choice is Sen. John McCain: Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site ...
washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2008
washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, October 22, 2008;
A13 Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market's downward
slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling ...
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On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2008
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The McCain campaign is now charging that the
terrorists want Obama to win, while pretending they're not
really saying that. The McCain campaign just held a curious conference call with reporters in which McCain advisers made the insinuation. It's ...
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McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates ...
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McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
Firedoglake —
... I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign held to deny that al-Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man.
To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement. Jim Woolsey, the former CIA director who publicly connected Iraq to the 9/11 attacks without any evidence in 2001, and senior foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann spent more time whining about the Washington Post's standards of fairness than on the logic of why al-Qaeda might prefer McCain. "An ...
Country Elections First
Shakesville —
... against al-Qaeda," said the posting, attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to the password-protected site. "Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America."All of this leads to what will probably be my favorite post headline in this entire campaign: McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign to deny that Al Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man. To describe the call ...
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