Friday's Headline in the New York Times:

Bin Laden Is Said to Be Organizing for a U.S. Attack

Now there's a suprise.

Here's my question- do newspapers actually write this story everytime it appears, or do they have some sort of template in which they just drop all the particulars in it? Or maybe the editor looks at a calendar (or polling data) and just tells the reporter to go ahead and start writing the story for every major upcoming event.

By the way, I'm sure Fox News will be all over this story:

PAKISTAN FOR BUSH. July Surprise?

Here's the money quote:

"But The New Republic has learned that Pakistani security officials have been told they must produce HVTs (High Value Targets) by the election. According to one source in Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), "The Pakistani government is really desperate and wants to flush out bin Laden and his associates after the latest pressures from the U.S. administration to deliver before the [upcoming] U.S. elections." Introducing target dates for Al Qaeda captures is a new twist in U.S.-Pakistani counterterrorism relations--according to a recently departed intelligence official, "no timetable[s]" were discussed in 2002 or 2003--but the November election is apparently bringing a new deadline pressure to the hunt.