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July 15, 2005
Juan Cole On 'The Ghost of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan'
In a July 15, 2005 post headlined "The Ghost of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan," Professor Juan Cole at Informed Comment says John Aravosis at AmericaBlog brings up the awful possibility, based on an ABC report, that the Public Relations-hungry Bush administration may have interfered with a British and Pakistani investigation of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb London that ties into July 7.
"The question is whether Bush played politics with terror around the time of the Democratic National Convention in late July, 2004," Mr. Cole writes. "Jim Lobe reminded us at the time that '
The New Republic weekly quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying the White House had asked them to announce the arrest or killing of any "high-value [al-Qaeda] target" any time between July 26 and 28, the first three days of the Democratic Convention. At the time, former CIA officer Robert Baer said the announcement made "no sense." "To keep these guys off-balance, a lot of this stuff should be kept in secret. You get no benefit from announcing an arrest like this." 'Look for some conservative bloggers to attack Mr. Cole for speculating on whether the Bush Administration uses the so-called war on terror for political gain.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 15, 2005 06:53 AM
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