From the blog Just One Minute we see this USA Today article about Hussein’s capture, which notes in passing that Tim Russert happened to have a dream about said capture the night before it happened (something shrugged off as a coincidence).
The author, who alas does not put his or her name on the site, asks a question:
OK, we all know enough not to take this seriously. But my question is, does Osama bin Laden know enough not to take this seriously?
I don’t want to yank too much of a quote from the post – feel free to read it – but the gist is that s/he thinks that we should be doing this sort of thing as part of a Psy-Ops exercise. I happen to agree… actually, I think that it needs to be heavily expanded. The United States of America has only the best in psychics and mystics: surely enough of them can pass a security clearance to be useful. We bring them in quietly, set them up in areas where they might have access to those involved in the WoT, prime them with carefully-selected hard intel (to give their predictions bite) and have them start up the disinformation machine.
No, seriously: didn’t the British did stuff like this in World War II, fiddle around with astrology and Nostradamus predictions to mess with the heads of the Germans doing the same thing? That’s in the form of a question because the crap that comes out when you Google on the subject has to be seen to be believed. At any rate, it’s one more way to spread confusion to the enemy, and a fairly cheap one, too.
Assuming that it’s not already taking place, of course.
Moe
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The author’s name is Tom Maguire, I think.
I don’t know if you recall, but there were numerous reports of the conversations in bin Laden’s camp in the days before September 11th in which he spoke about his “dreams” of towers falling, a great victory over the Americans, etc., etc. This was considered to be more or less the way he slid from hinting that he knew about it in advance to finally claiming full credit (after initially issuing unconvincing denials).
Clearly this means that the way to find him is to offer him a contract to be a TV Psychic Advisor.
“Clearly this means that the way to find him is to offer him a contract to be a TV Psychic Advisor.”
Presuming that he’s even still alive, I think that when we finally catch the bastard it’s going to be one of those Strange but True kinds of scenarios. I fully expect a weird story out of it anyway: why not TV Psychic Advisor? 🙂
It’ll be strange enough if we just catch him.
“It’ll be strange enough if we just catch him.”
As I think that he’s dead, well, yes. 🙂