Insider Report: Kerry's Beacon Hill Neighbor Talks to NewsMax

Insider Report: Kerry's Beacon Hill Neighbor Talks to NewsMax

Special from NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Saturday, Mar. 27, 2004

Supplement to Insider Report – March 30, 2004

Al-Qaida Targeting U.S. Shopping Malls, 'Soft Targets'

U.S. intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is currently targeting “soft targets,” including shopping malls and shopping centers across the United States.

“I can confirm to you they are focusing in on them, they are keying in on them, we know it for a fact,” a high-level CIA source told NewsMax editor Christopher Ruddy this past week in Washington. [More below]

The source said that terrorist cells here in the U.S. are clearly looking to make a “spectacular” attack - and shopping malls are one avenue they are considering because, as the source told NewsMax, “they are easy to attack, and you can score high casualties.”

Both the CIA source and another person close to high-ranking U.S. security officials agreed that any attacks made this year would be intended to score political points before the November elections.

These warnings about al-Qaida were made to NewsMax shortly before FBI Director Robert Mueller’s public comments to Congress last week in which he said that al-Qaida may try to strike in an effort to influence the U.S. elections.

Mueller’s remarks clearly underscore the administration’s worry that a small-scale, high-profile attack would demonstrate that the Bush administration has not made the U.S. homeland safer. Also, such an attack might buttress claims by John Kerry and others that the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq has not improved U.S. security.

NewsMax’s second source put it this way: “Whatever they do, it will be planned to help Kerry and hurt Bush.”

He also added that al-Qaida remains “fascinated” by the concept of attacking U.S. commercial aircraft, though new attacks may not mimic the hijackings of Sept. 11.

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Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Kerry's Beacon Hill Neighbor Talks to NewsMax
2. Why Ohio Could Destroy Bush
3. The French Cozy Up to China's Communists

1. Kerry's Beacon Hill Neighbor Talks to NewsMax

As the cliché goes, sometimes the best advertising is word of mouth ... or, sometimes not. At a Palm Beach luncheon this week we were fortunate to sit in the company of an interesting Bostonian woman, who just happens to be a neighbor of John Kerry.

Oh, perhaps we'd better clarify which of Kerry's neighborhoods we mean, as he does have five different ones. This lady is a Beacon Hill neighbor.

Of course, we couldn't help but ask - and we won't mention her name - "What do you think of John Kerry?"

She told us.

"I think he's the rudest, ugliest, most arrogant man I've ever met," she replied without a second's hesitation.

She then went on to inform us that Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz had a fire hydrant removed from the street near their home, so they would have an extra place to park.

The last anecdote she gave us was about a visit to the grocery store. It seems the Beacon Hill neighborhood has a popular little market, which is nearly always quite crowded with long lines of shoppers waiting to check out.

On one of this neighbor's shopping trips, she said, Kerry appeared with his groceries and went straight to the front of the line demanding, "I'm a senator. Take these."

2. Why Ohio Could Destroy Bush

From Cincinnati to Cleveland, there's a four-letter word that could make President Bush a one-term president: Taft.

Gov. Bob Taft - yes, scion of the legendary Republican dynasty - is so unpopular in Ohio for sneakily jacking up taxes after he was re-elected that Democrats are eager for November's election.

Bush won the formerly solid GOP state by only four percentage points in 2000, will have less help from Ralph Nader this year and would have an extremely difficult time getting re-elected without Ohio.

Taft could screw up everything for him. To further complicate matters, this Rust Belt laggard has above-average unemployment, no doubt worsened by Taft's money grab. Why have a business in Ohio when you can move to sunny, low-tax, pro-business Florida?

A conservative reader of ours who despises Democrats and has never voted for one before shocked us when he said he'd vote for anyone over Taft and allies, all because of the sleazy way the guv and his cronies in the legislature socked taxpayers instead of controlling spending.

Believe us, if this hardworking businessman will vote for a Dem, so will plenty of other Buckeyes, and the anger could spread to all contests on the ballot. See how much damage one escaped RINO like Bob Taft can inflict? Those who keep insisting that Republicans should imitate Democrats as much as possible should heed this cautionary tale.

3. The French Cozy Up to China's Communists

With Saddam Hussein toppled, the French have had to go looking for a replacement and apparently picked China as the lucky guy. The French and Chinese navies have been conducting joint exercises just off the northern coast of the Red country.

The hypocritical French, who whine incessantly about America's interference in other countries' affairs, have also been interfering apparently with relations between China and the Taiwanese. And Business Week reports the joint naval exercises began just days before the Taiwanese elections.

And if the French are able to convince the European Union to end its 15-year embargo of arms sales to China, their defense and aerospace can sweep up a tidy profit selling missiles to the communists.

It's all another giant kick in the teeth to Washington, which continues to restrict the sale of technology to the Chinese.