VB: Powell's Exquisite Evidence: Internet Plagiarism

This is interesting:

http://europe.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/11/sprj.irq.wrap/index.html

Osama bin Laden more or less disproving MI6:s conclusion: hey look y'all,
we're real buddies, me and Mr Hussein.

To start off with, what I find interesting here is the timing of this
message. Either Osama, alive and kicking, want the allegded Iraq - al-Qaeda
connection accentuated (something Blair  & c:o utterly have failed to do),
thus further increasing US public opinion for going to war with Iraq, which
in turn most probably would reinforce al-Qaedas own agenda of increased
support for getting rid of US forces in Saudi and the Gulf, as well as
recruiting more followers to "the base", of course sacrificing Iraq in the
process but hey, they're too secular anyway according to Mr Osama.

But apparently, Mr Powell today knew in advance that al-Jazeera was going to
broadcast an audio tape from Osama later today. Which is of course highly
surprising, unless Mr Powell himself practiced his impersonating skills
earlier today. And it's an incredible coincidence that this alledged Osama
statement is released just a couple of days after Powell's and Blair's utter
failure to convince the public and the reasonable intelligent governments to
go to war.

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Carl Nordlund, BA, PhD student
carl.nordlund(at)humecol.lu.se
Human Ecology Division
www.humecol.lu.se