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Did Bush make Osama deal with Musharraf?

"LONDON: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has struck a deal with the US not to capture Osama Bin Laden, fearing this could lead to unrest in Pakistan, according to a special investigation by The Guardian.

"The paper reported Saturday that Bin Laden was being protected by three elaborate security rings manned by tribesmen stretching 192 kms in diameter in northern Pakistan."


Source via A Changin Times blog

Will Bush capture bin Laden as an election stunt?
Here is an except from the article referred to above, as it appeared in the prestigious international journal, The Guardian:

"With the US election nearing and mounting concerns about Washington's second great military project – Iraq – George Bush more than ever needs the incalculable political boost that Bin Laden's capture would bring."

Source

Bin Laden is accused of killing more than 3,000 Americans, and Bush made a song and dance about catching Osama quickly, dead or alive. It beggars belief to be told by the US government that they cannot locate and capture cohorts of military men such as bin Laden, Hussein and their troops, with all the trucks and resources they would require to move about the countryside, and with all the sophisticated satellite and other snooping equipment owned by the USA.

I do wonder what the loved ones of those 9-11 victims must think of allegations that their President is only pretending to be hunting for the Al Qaeda leader – if, indeed, stories like The Guardian's are circulated widely in US media, which I doubt very much. If the Shrub is keeping bin Laden 'on ice' while his own popularity is falling, only to capture him for a media stunt close to election time, how will the American people feel? If I had lost a family member in the Bali bombings, and Australia's Prime Minister Howard was using that in order to get himself re-elected, I would be absolutely outraged.

This should be an interesting unfolding story to watch during the coming US election campaign. However, it will probably not unfold in the mainstream media, as they have not tended to cover any of the long list of similar misinformations so skilfully managed by the US Administration's expensive and powerful public relations consultants. Of course, this is because of the incestuous relationship between the huge, transnational media corporations and the huge, transnational PR firms. (It's clear that most TV watchers and newspaper readers have not even heard of almost-invisible corporations such as Burson-Marsteller or Hill & Knowlton, nor understand how large, powerful and influential they are. Even less is it widely known the extent to which "news and current affairs" are written by PR firms.)

This has been a war of political spin, cooked up as a 'war on terrorism', and it looks like we're about to get another good serving. It also appears that we might have one more myth to add to the list.