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Senior intel officer: Al Qaeda will attack US to ensure Bush win

A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the West is losing the war against Al Qaeda and that an 'avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked' war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands.
This senior intelligence official, who anonymously penned "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror", also says that 'Osama bin Laden may attack the US before the November election to ensure the re-election of President George Bush.'

James Bamford, the author of two respected books on American intelligence (The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, both about the National Security Agency), has written a new book called "Pretext for War".
His book -- described as a "damning portrait" of the intelligence community painting a "scathing picture" of neoconservatives in the Bush administration -- suggests that the CIA caved to pressure from administration hard-liners. Bamford quotes a CIA case officer who says a senior agency officer called a meeting and said, "You know what – if Bush wants to go to war, it's your job to give him a reason to do so".
According to Bamford, the basic blueprint for the administration's Middle East policy had been drawn up in the mid-1990s by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser, three neoconservatives who would be named to influential positions in the Bush administration.