check out this case against Iraq made in June 01, just a reminder

[NVMojo]

OK, first of all, I see lots of links to the dirty hand of Sun Yung Moonie and his news sources if you snoop around this site ...who uses him in the White House??? I know, I know, it's good to be reminded of what we are still dealing with here in the good old USA. Liars, liars and more liars....



Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond

Laurie Mylroie (who is this gal?)

On February 26, 1993, a massive bomb exploded in the parking garage of the north tower of the World Trade Center building in New York City, killing six people and leaving a crater six stories deep in the building's basement floors. The mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, later boasted that he had hoped to kill 250,000 people. Two years later, Yousef was involved in a plot to bomb a dozen US airplanes flying over the Pacific.1

Yousef's bombing plots gave rise to the notion that a new form of international terrorism had emerged that was not state-sponsored, but said to consist of "loose networks" of militant Muslims, not backed by states.2 Yet, as The Washington Post recently noted, "some critics have disputed this approach, contending that rogue nations like Iraq have managed to slip intelligence operatives in and out of bomb conspiracies, leaving the FBI to chase and catch the small fish that the skilled men left behind."3

Indeed, there is considerable evidence that the Trade Center bombing was a case of Iraqi intelligence directing a major terrorist operation and leaving behind a few minor figures to be arrested and take the blame.

snip....

Conclusion

The bombing plots do not appear to stem directly from "loose networks" of terrorists, as Iraq was involved in all three. And all that it suffered was a late night attack on its intelligence headquarters. How likely is it that Saddam subsequently gave up on terrorism?

Of course, it is extremely unlikely. Once Sheikh Omar was arrested, and as the terrorism continued, the new "face of terror" became Osama bin Ladin. Fantastic capabilities are regularly ascribed to him. It is rarely asked: How is it possible for one man do all the things that are attributed to him?

It is highly probable that Iraqi intelligence is working with bin Ladin.26 Some time ago - before the idea took hold that a new, stateless form of terrorism had been into being - bin Ladin would have come to be seen as a "front organization." But the concept scarcely seems to exist any more.

When enough time has passed so that the Gulf War can be viewed with the dispassion of history, it will be recognized that the one thing that Iraq could do to retaliate against the United States (and other members of the Gulf War coalition) was carry out acts of terrorism. A great deal of Iraq's energy and resources has, almost certainly, gone into that effort. And it is not all that difficult to recognize. What is absent is a willingness to do so and a resolve to address the problem. That this is so despite the consequences - the deaths of Americans and others - says, perhaps, a very great deal about the times in which we live.

more...

http://www.meib.org/articles/0106_ir1.htm

edited to add:

and here's a good tidbit on the author:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.bergen.html

so ...is it any surprise that the White House uses media operatives?

[slor]

1. Laurie Mylroie is the same gal, and I use...

the term "gal" quite generously (if you have ever seen her, you know what I mean) that wrote a book that came out in June or July, right after dumbya's war, about how the CIA tried to stop the war. Good timing eh? Well, they don't talk about that much anymore.

[NVMojo]

2. she's quite a neocon storyteller...