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The Al Qaeda Vote
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/22/2008
The Al Qaeda Vote
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bushmccain.jpg Eli Lake reports that “ America’s counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence the presidential elections in November,” noting that “bin Laden has sought to influence democratic elections in the past”: In the week before the ...
washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for ...

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washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2008
McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
— washingtonindependent.com — 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 as panicked would be an… (more) McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for ...

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washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain
— washingtonpost.com — 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 ... (more) On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for ...

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The Poor Man Institute:  Help Me Obin Laden, You’re My Only Hope

Obsidian Wings:  Not Afraid of McCain's Secret Plan to Get Bin Laden

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Help Me Obin Laden, You’re My Only Hope
The Poor Man Institute — ... Whereas Bush only needed a tape-based boost from bin Laden in 2004, McCain’s flacid campaign is so sub-flatline that it would need something more shocking and awful to reanimate the corpse.    ...

Not Afraid of McCain's Secret Plan to Get Bin Laden
Obsidian Wings — ... is "a good talking to," bin Laden and al-Qaeda fear an Obama administration more than a McCain administration.  As Matt Duss observed: ...

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