He's Alive!

I'm surprised.

Apparently, Sheik Osama bin Laden is alive — and channeling Michael Moore:

.... Bin Laden suggested Bush was slow to react to the Sept. 11 attacks, giving the hijackers more time than they expected. At the time of the attacks, the president was listening to schoolchildren in Florida reading a book.

"It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone," he said, referring to the number of people who worked at the World Trade Center.

"It appeared to him (Bush) that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out the operations, thank God," he said.

In planning the attacks, bin Laden said he told Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers, that the strikes had to be carried out "within 20 minutes before Bush and his administration noticed." ....

That, Faithful Reader, does not surprise me at all.

Indeed, seeing as how Fahrenheit 9/11 was reported to be very popular in the Middle East, would it be too much to speculate that bin Laden is, indeed, taking his cues from Michael Moore?

One is tempted to make fun. But I think that would be unwise. It occurs to me that Osama's sudden reappearance may be a signal to his cohorts.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 10/29/04 08:18:31 PM
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