Not Your Sweetie

Bin Laden tape - selectively released. Missing paragraph:

This similarity was striking with Bush the Elder when he visited in the area. At the same time, some of our people (the Saudis) were fascinated by the USA and were hoping that his visit to our countries might influence us; however Bush instead became influenced by these people and their regimes, and he started to envy them, as they sit there for many decades in their positions and are stealing their country's money with any kind of audits or control. After that, he took up the same method of repression and restricting freedoms which under the guise of the Patriot Act, under the cover of the War on Terror.
Bush the Elder liked the idea that his sons would take over power from the father. He has also not forgotten the tactics of his own skills at voter cheating, like in Florida, so he could use them in an emergency


71. This tape is not addressed to his followers, but to us
he is using western language (wasn't he educated in England?)
he wants to influence the election, he wants to maintain the status quo that serves him. he is smart enough not to make a direct statement on this, but instead adopts a "spoiler" stance (see "Nader" for details)
The hope here is to keep people from voting.
I cannot say if the BFEE/Bin Ladin entreprise (Carlyle) was directly involved in soliciting his services or this was an OBL initiative. He is enough of a megalomaniac to want the feeling that he decides this country;s future - but not dumb enough to risk helping along a regime change to a more competent leader.
So, while the planning may have not existed, he did make BFEE a gift (again) and it was received as such - see what W's operative boast:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/247753p-212149c ....
See tape as boost for Prez
We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us."
A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."
He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.