That Didn’t Take Long
John Kerry criticized President Bush on Friday for failing to capture Osama bin Laden.
OBL Video Message Transcript
Here.
Reaction: Babbling. I can’t make anything of it. Just incessant babbling.
OBL Tape Made Recently
Via MSNBC: Analyst: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a Middle East specialist and former military official at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, said the tape appeared to have been made very recently. He noted that bin Laden refers to Kerry and to the possibility of election problems next week in Florida.
More: ABCNEWS has a report.
New bin Laden Tape
Al Jazeera reports a new video tape from Osama bin Laden will air on their network today.
UPDATE: Osama bin Laden, in video broadcast on Al-Jazeera television, accuses U.S. President George W. Bush of ‘misleading’ the American people four years after the Sept. 11 attacks…
MORE: CNN reports the following bin Laden quote: “Americans’ security does not depend on the president they elect, but on U.S. policy. “Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda.”
STILL MORE: MSNBC has the story.
Imam I.D.’s Gadahn?
Early reports out of Los Angeles say a local Imam is claiming that the terrorist shown on the video tape obtained by ABC News is Adam Gadahn.
Today’s Required Read
Friday = Krauthammer.
Election Night Schedule
For those of us blogging election night, and reading blogs on election night, the fine folks at edison media research have put together a schedule showing poll closure times across the country along with the corresponding electoral votes that are tallied.
The poll closing times roll out as follows:
7:00 PM – 58 Electoral Votes
7:30 PM – 40 EVs
8:00 PM – 171 EVs
8:30 PM – 6 EVs
9:00 PM – 159 EVs
10:00 PM – 20 EVs
11:00 PM – 81 EVs
1:00 AM – 3 EVs
(H/T NZ Bear and The Corner)
Pass the Doob
I want some of what Harkin is smokin…
Go Balloons! Go Balloons!
I don’t know what to make of this yet. I’m sure we’ll see video later today.
BUSH EVENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Event workers had been told to fire off confetti pods when Bush said, ‘God Bless’… his normal closing line. But 5 minutes before the end of his speech, Bush offered a "God Bless" to Arlene Howard, mother of George Howard a Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Police Officer killed in the World Trade Center… BLAM!!!!! Everyone first ducked — hard — then looked up to see confetti falling. Bush looked momentarily stunned, then plain unhappy, then just went on with his speech as the confetti rained to the floor of the Verizon Wireless Arena… Developing…
(H/T – Drudge)
UPDATE: Here’s a picture.
Siren’s Blaring
Drudge with yet another siren today:
MAJOR: WE REMOVED 200+ TONS OF EXPLOSIVES FROM FACILITY
FLASH 10.29.04 11:36:56 ET /// Soldier to brief reporters at Pentagon within the hour that he was tasked with removing explosives from al QaQaa and he and his unit removed 200+ tons… Officer was ordered to join the 101st airborne on April 13 — to destroy conventional explosives at the al QaQaa complex… Developing…
MORE: Fox is first with a report.