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...Osama Bin Laden has a flair for dramatic timing. In October 2001, he materialized on TV screens hours after bombs began falling on Afghanistan. Three years later, he surfaced on videotape four days before the U.S. presidential election. It was not quite the Osama October Surprise that some Democrats had imagined--bin Laden doing a perp walk in an orange jumpsuit--but it rattled the U.S. and roiled the campaign just the same...
...candidates immediately delivered statements saying that Americans were in agreement in their opposition to the terrorists. But the tape quickly became a weapon in their battle. On a Wisconsin radio station Kerry, repeating a longtime criticism, said that Bush "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden" at Tora Bora in 2001. Bush shot back at a rally in Ohio that Kerry's criticisms were "especially shameful in light of the new tape from America's enemy...
...LADEN NAME HAS BECOME INFAMOUS, BUT ONE FAMILY MEMBER IS trying to give it a different odor. Osama's older half brother (they share the same father) has just put his name on a new perfume, a jasmine-heavy scent dubbed Yeslam. Bin Ladin (his spelling), a resident of Geneva who has dual Swiss-Saudi citizenship, spoke with TIME's Scott MacLeod in Paris...
Despite a lot of wishful thinking during the campaign, the outside world didn't get a voice in the American election, unless you count Osama bin Laden's videotape. Had foreigners voted, it's a near certainty that George W. Bush would not have been returned for a second term. In international polls, many non-Americans say they dislike Bush's Iraq policy or the way that he has handled allies...
...Palestinian-Israeli dispute would have a calming effect. But there is an even bigger long-term challenge. It is in America's long-term interest to foster the development of a successful and modern Islamic state that would become an alternative beacon to replace the current infatuation with Osama bin Laden. This requires a sustained and long-term engagement with the Islamic world. Indonesia provides an immediate opportunity. The peaceful and successful elections there could send powerful waves of hope into the Islamic world if they are followed by successful development. As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said, "If everything...