[aristeides]

Laurie Mylroie argues in her new book Bush Versus the Beltway that that Egyptian embassy bombing was in fact the work of the Iraqis. If she's right, I doubt if they needed money that much.

[JohnBerger]

I don't want to start a brawl ;-) but my own research hasn't really done much to convince me of the "Iraqis as the major sponsor of world terrorism" theory.

I freely admit I could be wrong about this. But I do note with interest (but without a formal allegation) that the very first source to claim the Iraqis were behind OKC appears to have been a tipoff from Saudi intelligence (to Vincent Cannistraro) on April 19, while at that exact moment, prominent Saudi businessman Khalifa was sitting in a U.S. prison, after spending the previous 6 years funneling cash from wealthy Saudis to al Qaeda.

And of course, as the story points out, Khalifa was extradited to Jordan days later.

jmb