<http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html>
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“At the five o’clock meeting, [deputy CIA director] John McLaughlin
opened the issue with the consensus view: ‘Bin-Laden certainly did a
nice favor today for the President.’”
McLaughlin’s comment drew nods from CIA officers at the table. Jami
Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence, suggested
that the al-Qaeda founder may have come to Bush’s aid because bin-
Laden felt threatened by the rise in Iraq of Jordanian terrorist Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi; bin-Laden might have thought his leadership would
be diminished if Bush lost the White House and their “eye-to-eye
struggle” ended.
But the CIA analysts also felt that bin-Laden might have recognized
how Bush’s policies – including the Guantanamo prison camp, the Abu
Ghraib scandal and the endless bloodshed in Iraq – were serving al-
Qaeda’s strategic goals for recruiting a new generation of jihadists.
“Certainly,” the CIA’s Miscik said, “he would want Bush to keep doing
what he’s doing for a few more years,” according to Suskind’s account
of the meeting.
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