..... Also tonight, new answers about what al Qaeda wants. Not making this up. Apparently right now it‘s guns, jobs at the CIA and Russell Crowe.....

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OLBERMANN: So far as we can tell, the Bush doctrine largely lacking when it come to the safety, freedom and big screen appeal of Australian movie stars. [This after showing a video of Bush talking about freedom in Lebanon] Nevertheless, Russell Crowe now being mentioned as the target of a potential al Qaeda plot. Russell Crowe doing that mentioning himself.

Back in March 2001, when Crowe was winning awards for his performance in the movie, “Gladiator,” news broke that the FBI was protecting him because of a kidnap threat—undercover agents flanking the star whenever he hit the red carpet. At the time, the FBI refused to specify the nature of that threat, but Crowe himself now fingering al Qaeda, telling “GQ” magazine that kidnapping him was part of an Osama bin Laden cultural destabilization plan.

Says Crowe, “that was the first time I‘d ever heard the phrase ‘al Qaeda.‘ It was about—and here‘s another little touch of irony—taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a culture destabilization plot. I never fully understood what the **** was going on.”

That makes two of us, Russ......

..... OLBERMANN: Speaking of weeding people out, as a final, final point, give me your assessment of this story that‘s in “GQ” magazine about kidnapping Russell Crowe. How many things are wrong with this picture? He‘s not an American. Even if he were, his kidnapping probably would not destabilize the United States of America for very long, and some people might even support it. Do you buy that this was an al Qaeda plot?

EVAN KOHLMANN, NBC TERRORISM ANALYST: Well, I mean, at the same time that you have al Qaeda operatives that are extremely well trained and are savvy and they could infiltrate perhaps the CIA, you also have a bunch of dingbats that are not necessarily the most savvy men in the world. And I think individuals like that are the ones that come up with plots like this.

There have been ideas that have surfaced, even here in Northern Virginia, among terrorist operatives to carry out plots like this. I don‘t think it was terribly realistic, but if the FBI put the manpower into it, at least they thought it was credible enough to take it seriously. They don‘t waste manpower.

And you know, it could have come from a legitimate source. Sometimes even the most ingenious terrorist operatives like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, come up with totally hair-brained plots, like trying to loosen the bolts on the Brooklyn Bridge and take it down. I mean, it‘s ridiculous, but sometimes they do come up with these things.

OLBERMANN: And it is a comforting thought. Evan Kohlmann, of the GlobalTerrorAlert.com. Many thanks.

KOHLMANN: Thank you.

OLBERMANN: Nice to think of moron terrorists.....

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