odd that these two stories come out on the same day.
CIA planning for al-Qaida 'succession crisis'
The question is who will replace bin Laden if he's caught or killed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24843550Al Qaeda Tape to Call for Use of WMD's
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/FedCrimes/story?id=4941724coming to you WH press conference near you, the new propaganda to be catapulted...
it won't be about OBL, it will be about "unknown" terrorist groups "associated" with Al Qaeda.
they have to scrape off OBL as the all powerful evil bad guy soon. He had a good run but he just doesn't have the pa-zaz he once had. So if they go with the unknown angle, they can make anyone the new OBL for as long or short as they want.
I call this "modular propaganda".
Cut and paste what you want. It fits everything. Eurasia a acting up? no problem, suddenly we have always been at war with Eurasia! If Eastasia is the new problem, cut and paste!!! It's all about WMD's again. What was once old is now new!!!