Predict "October Surprise" Date...

[sonicx]

The reports about bin laden's "arrest" being close is making my :tinfoilhat: blink. just for kicks, guess when it might happen...

I say right in the middle - October 15th

[Shoeempress]

1. The Friday b4 election, Have the paper all weekend and no time

for JFK to respond.

[sonicx]

5. that would be too obvious...

but there probably are people dumb enough to fall for it.

[greekspeak]

14. They get away with less already

The media will have a field day with it and make Shrub third only to Washington and Lincoln.

[Shoeempress]

18. No sh*! , How can such an incompetent boob have double digit approval

ratings

[walldude]

2. A llittle too far away,

I'm going with around the 23rd. 2 weeks leaves too much time for it to backfire...

[lil-petunia]

3. too late. it starts earlier and more often.

first weakened for the first jab,
frist play on the second week
hastert and a new discovery on the third
Bin laden in chains the third,
then some NEW ACCORD THAT WILL CREATE PEACE IN ISRAEL AND IRAQ the last weekend.
without facts or proof.

[bigwillq]

4. May 8

[homelandpunk]

6. Poppy uses CIA doctors to make Babs die of "disease" so chimpy can get

the sympathy vote.
Date: at the midnite hour.

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[atre]

7. Amazing thing

It never ceases to amaze me how many ardent Bush supporters I've met have an unwavering belief that Bush will pull an October Suprise out of his hat to seal the election? How can people support someone they believe will engage in massive deception of the American people for political purposes?

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

[ck4829]

11. Yes, I myself had seen this on another site

I forget the location, but the guy who worte the suff for the site said that if Bush was hiding bin Laden and he was going to bring him out before the election, he said he wouldn't mind.

[Snotcicles]

17. Yes

and they talk about morals.

[sffreeways]

8. October 1st or 3rd n/t

[sonicx]

9. too early, the presidential ass kissing would die down by election day. nt

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. My Birthday

10/14

[POAS]

12. I say

Just before the debate on October 13th which is supposed to focus in foreign policy.

[nefarious]

13. They cannot capture Osama bin Laden

If there is a terrorist strike in America after bin Laden is shown incarcerated, where will the crooked finger of blame point?

Will it be mission accomplished for the Bush junta, or will they identify a new emerging threat from the Iranian bad guys?

Any way you slice it, the American public will have a hard time understanding why Osama bin Laden was not behind it, and why George "Protector" Bush* and his gang of threat eliminators failed us again.

[ipsofacto]

15. U.S. Near Seizing bin Laden, Official Says

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040904/D84T2OUO0.html

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.

"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."

Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.


(AP) Joseph Cofer Black smiles to cameras as he arrives at Ankara's Esenboga airport in this Oct. 1,...
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"What I tell people, I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we wake up tomorrow and he's been caught along with all his lieutenants. That can happen because of the programs and infrastructure in place," he told Geo.

Bin Laden and his top associate, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding some place along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Officials have divulged no solid intelligence about bin Laden's precise whereabouts, and it's not clear if they have any.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and Black's visit comes weeks after Pakistani security forces captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa, and Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani computer expert allegedly linked to al-Qaida operatives around the world.

The arrests led to a terror warning in the United States, and arrests in Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

Black attended a meeting of the Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement in Islamabad on Thursday and Friday.

During the talks, Pakistan asked U.S. officials for more helicopters, surveillance and communications equipment to help Pakistani forces guard border areas near Afghanistan "more efficiently," a Pakistani official at the talks said.

"We got a positive response from the American officials," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Pakistan has deployed about 70,000 troops along the Afghan border and conducted several military operations this year in its lawless and largely autonomous tribal regions against al-Qaida suspects and their local supporters.

Black hailed Pakistan's efforts in counterterrorism - despite criticism from Western officials who say that elements of the former ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan still operate inside Pakistan.

"In terms of national programs and effectiveness, I would put Pakistan up against anyone else ... If you look at the arrests they have made, the information they have developed and the lives that have been saved, Pakistan is doing a great job," he said.

He added, however, that, "you can always do more."

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[Snotcicles]

16. I say next saturday

9/11 What do ya think?

[Nimrod]

19. They'd have to get a good story written

They'd have to "catch" him while he was in the process of perpetrating another attack. Otherwise, too obvious. Americans are stupid as hell, but I'd like to think they're not quite THAT stupid.

I'm voting right about the middle of October, maybe a hair past. Gotta give him JUST enough time to cockstrut around for a few weeks, but not enough time for it to be uncovered that the "capture" was scripted and choreographed.

[Dangerman]

21. Allow Hallow's Eve, perhaps?

(/sarcasm)

[Morning Dew]

22. 10/27 Wed. 2 full news days left in the week, followed by Tues. election

Then on the 3rd we'll find out it was an Osama double.

[genius]

23. Bush will hit CA on an appropriate occasion to get large crowds

The last major baseball game in CA (if there is one in late OCT or Nov 1). I'm expecting Bush to hit the Halloween celebration in North Hollywood. A lot of gays and liberals attend it along with others in massive numbers and he can kill his enemies and steal four more years with one bomb. If it hits there, we'll know it's Bush.

[Citizen Daryl]

24. "Bush announces WH thwarted a terrorist assassination attempt on Kerry."

Because they're just that evil.

[Cat Atomic]

25. There was a betting pool here at DU about this long ago.

I believe my date back then was October 10th or so.

[Renew Deal]

26. Hurricane hits NYC on 10/30 and wipes out Democratic neighborhoods.

Bush wins NY and election. Category 4 tinfoil hat. :tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

[Bjornsdotter]

27. Oct 17th n/t