[PN] October Surprise? (25 October 2004)

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* Periodical articles

Osama hiding in Pakistan
9-11 panelist says getting him would imperil ally
Jim, Mohr, San Bernardino Sun, 21 October 2004
[This was contributed by PN reader Thomas Fortenberry,
an old online acquaintance or mutual friend/mentor of
Net enthusiast Arun Kumar Tripathi, who is now more
into philosophy (phenomenology) than online education.
The suggestion was about an "October Surprise," but
your editor's opinion was that "I remember reading this 
and thinking that what's news is just the extent that's 
being admitted. I think the reason they can't get to Osama 
is that Musharraf won't allow it. He would probably be 
overthrown if the most popular man in the Islamic world 
were handed over to the hated West. There is some reason 
to more afraid of the Islamic bomb than of al Qaeda, but 
it's hard to imagine any altruism in Rebublican strategy, 
so they must want him this month. Musharraf must have 
told the US in no uncertain terms that they are not to 
launch any assault on Pakistani territory or else Pakistan 
becomes an enemy of the U.S. That being said, I'd be 
surprised if there were not an October surprise. They 
did try to set up Zarqawi as a substitute for Osama by 
putting the same price on his head, and hoped to snatch 
him before the election. Why else to turn Falluja into rubble?"
Copy and paste to get the whole URL below if necessary - Ed.]
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2484135,00.html

How to Make New Enemies
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, New York Times, 25 October 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/opinion/25brzezinski.html

Why Are Some American Christians So Bloodthirsty?
Understanding Pro-war Christians' Indifference to Civilian Deaths
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst, AntiWar.com, 23 October 2004
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/whitehurst.php?articleid=3842

Karl Rove: America's Mullah
"This election is about Rovism, and the outcome threatens to 
transform the U.S. into an ironfisted theocracy."
Neal Gabler, Los Angeles Times [reprint], 24 October 2004
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7124.htm

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
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