Al-Qa`idah for Bush: Dirty tricks are still coming in. It seems that Israel is now trying to help Bush. Abu Aardvark sent me a message alerting me to MEMRI's attempts at distortions and falsfications. This outfit (set up by "former" Israeli intelligence officials (see a link I put a while back to a Guardian article exposing them) has now produced their own version of the Bin Ladin transcript. Having realized that the Bin Laden tape has not made the impact (in favor of Bush) that was desired, MEMRI put its own take and twists: by referring to some anonymous writer on some anonymous website belonging to some anonymous group from an anonymous country, suggesting that Bin Laden made a threat to battle ground states (as if Bin Laden knows what battle ground states are). Let me remind you again: Al-Qa`idah officially endorsed Bush in a statement it had released back in March, in which it stated that Bush has been very good for the fanatic cause of Bin Laden. Despite what William Safire said in today's New York Times, Al-Qa`idah is for Bush, and the aforementioned statement specifically said that Bush's actions had awakened the Muslim ummah, etc. The statement went on to say that Democrats are more dangerous to Al-Qa`idah's cause.