My wife was just reading an article, The Terror Web by Lawrence Wright, in the current week's New Yorker, and she pointed out a very interesting tidbit.
Just four days after the Madrid train bombings, pundits and reporters were already talking about the possibility that terrorists might try to disrupt the American election. However, Republicans have implied that this attack would come to try to influence the election towards the Democrats. In a message, written by a group claiming to be affiliated with Al Qaeda, that was sent to a London newspaper, and among other things the group wrote this:
"'We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections', the author's write, Bush's 'idiocy and religious fanaticism' are useful, the authors contend, for they stir the Islamic world to action."