Evidence of the "Bush Effect" on Terrorism

It's just like I thought...

--ryan




Excerpt from article in The New Yorker Magazine:

A few days after the train bombing in Madrid, a terrorist group claiming affiliation with Al Qaeda sent a message to a London Islamic newspaper.

They avowed responsibility for the bombing and addressed the speculation that the terrorist would try to replicate their political success in Spain by disrupting the November U.S. elections.   "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections," the terrorist group writes.  Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" are useful, the authors contend, for they stir the Islamic world to action...

*This is excerpted from a 13-page article by Lawrence Wright in the August 2, 2004 issue of The New Yorker Magazine.