On October 29, FOX News Channel foreign affairs and terrorism analyst Mansoor Ijaz said that Osama bin Laden supported the election of both President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry.

From the October 29 edition of FOX News Channel's On The Record with Greta Van Susteren:

IJAZ: Now, some American voters may, in fact, be intimidated, but I don't think they should be because the bottom line here is that what he really wants is a Bush second term. And the reason he wants that is because that's the only way they can keep the jihadist enterprise alive because they know that President Bush is never going to stop coming after them, wherever they're hiding, no matter where they are.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN (host): But -- but even, you know, both -- both men today -- both President Bush and Senator Kerry both said today, very short statements, that, you know, whoever is elected on Tuesday will continue to go after this man, to go get this man. We will get him some place.

IJAZ: Unfortunately, that analysis doesn't hold up, and bin Laden knows that better than anybody else because he knows that if there was a President Kerry, Kerry would essentially bring in many of the Clinton-era retreads, if you will, that allowed bin Laden to become the force that he is today in the first place.

VAN SUSTEREN: But then he loses his ability to mobilize his forces. I mean, that's the flip side of it because he uses Bush as his poster child to get his money, to get his people.

IJAZ: Not if he is able to, in fact, conduct a major terrorist attack, which would be much more likely if you've got people who are pacifists about the terrorist enterprise around the world running the American government.