Osama bin Laden's newest audio message may be his scariest yet. Osama has embarked on a terrorist makeover of sorts. Think of it as al Qaeda's domino theory. The Iranian revolution caught us by surprise in 1979 and so could a Saudi Arabian uprising now. And Osama may be betting on it. On Sunday, NYT ran a Week in Review article about bin Laden. This is basically that same story, after having been run through the "NY Post"-ify filter. (For more on that sort of thing, see the Robert Lucky article, "Engineering Expressiveness", that I memed yesterday.) |