The past couple of weeks have provided us additional reason to consider the possibility that the Olympic Park bombings in Atlanta, simultaneous with TWA 800, were also Middle Eastern: the bomb that was recently set off at Hebrew University in Jerusalem was in a backpack and contained nails. That sounds just like the bombs in Atlanta.
If TWA 800 was downed to disrupt the '96 Olympics in Atlanta, what does that tell us about the bombings in Atlanta? Steve Hatfill may have more in common with Richard Jewell than one realizes at first blush.
There is ample reason to be suspicious about TW 800.
But I'm initially skeptical about the Olympic Park bombing having a Middle East connection. There is nothing particularly mysterious about the bomb's construction. And, as successful as it was in disrupting and disconcerting the country and the administration, one would think it would've been repeated, were there a terrorist link. It's possible but, to my mind, unlikely.
Frankly, I'm a little perplexed that the garden-variety suicide bomber technique hasn't been employed in the US...as yet.
The media, I fear, would be delighted by the story opp.