WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al-Qaeda is reportedly planning a high-level assassination against a US or foreign leader to disrupt the US presidential election, that will be set in motion by a new tape from its leader Osama bin Laden.

…The assassination would signal the launch of more terrorist attacks involving “multiple targets in multiple venues” across the United States, the officials said.

They said the “very detailed” plans were found on a laptop computer of suspected Al-Qaeda computer expert Naeem Noor Khan, arrested in Pakistan last month.

“The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the US economy and to undermine the US election,” an intelligence official said, referring to the November 2 presidential election pitting Republican President George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry.

“The view of Al-Qaeda is ‘anybody but Bush,’” said the official.

I don’t know if al Qaeda are the Democrats or just campaigning for the Democrats, but either way, golf claps all around to “unnamed US intelligence officials.”