I read a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal of September 5, 2002 entitled "The Iraq connection", which raises the strong possibility that Iraq may have been complicit in the terror attacks against the United States since the end of the Gulf War. We do know for certain that Saddam Hussein plotted to assassinate former President George Bush, Sr. during his visit to Kuwait in April of 1993. Could Saddam Hussein have been waging a terror offensive against the United States ever since the end of the Gulf War?



We are honored to have as our guest Laurie Mylroie, a renowned Middle EastExpert. She has taught at Harvard University and the United States War College, and is advisor to the Pentagon on terrorism. She is the publisher of "Iraq News" and Vice President of "Information for Democracy".



Laurie Mylroie is the author of a fascinating book, "Study of Revenge: SaddamHussein's Unfinished War against America". In this book Laurie Mylroie makes a powerful case for Iraqi involvement in the first World Trade Center attack. She argues that Saddam Hussein is driven by a desire for revenge following the Gulf War and is the single greatest terrorist threat to the United States.



Former CIA Director James Woolsey (1993 to 1995) has personally endorsed Ms. Mylroie's findings in various op-ed and magazine articles. He wrote the

foreword of this book and describes it as "brave, lucid and careful".



The entire interview with Laurie Mylroie can be accessed at:www.IsraelNationalNews.com/Metafiles/asx/wig.asx



Laurie Mylroie makes a powerful case for Iraqi involvement in the first World Trade Center attack. She combed through thousands of court documents of the case and pieced together a series of credible connections with Iraq.



Mylroie's research successfully challenges the widespread belief that rogue networks of terrorists run by Islamic radicals like Osama bin Laden work on their own without state sponsorship. She argues that because Saddam Hussein is driven by a desire for revenge following his defeat in the Gulf War, he is the single greatest terrorist threat to the United States.



After extensive research, Mylroie concluded that if the Clinton administration had not ignored the question of possible Iraqi involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the United States might have been able to prevent a series of subsequent terrorist attacks, such as:



a) The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the US Federal Building which killed168 people;

b) The 1996 bombing of Al Khobar Base in Saudi Arabia that left 19 American servicemen dead;

c) The 1998 bombing of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, injuring more than 4, 500;

d) The 2001 September 11, bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which left close to three thousand people dead and many injured.



The United States has recently commemorated the biggest terror attack so far, September 11. There is a heated debate in the United States whether to go to war against Iraq. If any or all of these murderous attacks can be traced to Saddam Hussein, the question of whether the US is justified in pursuing that course becomes academic. The argument is settled. The debate should end.



Israel has no need to trace where the terror comes from. Israel has long been engaged in a war against this terror. But many Israelis are needlessly losing their lives because Mr. Sharon does not fight this war to win and deliberately allows Arab terrorism to exist at a "tolerable" level, as he admitted in a Jerusalem Post interview published on September 27 of this year.



Because of Sharon's self-confessed tolerance of Arab terrorism, an Arab sniper killed another of our beloved sons this last Monday. Ari Joshua Weiss, only 21 years old, was the son of Rabbi Stewart and Mrs. Susie Weiss of Raanana, Israel. I received an email from my friend Diane Benjamin of Dallas, Texas, who told me that Rabbi Stewart Weiss was the former Rabbi of her congregation, Tiferet Israel in Dallas, before the Weiss family made aliyah. All the congregants of his former synagogue join in sharing the grief of the Weiss family.



Ari Weiss died a hero's death defending his people and his land. May his memory be for a blessing.



=============================================

Michael@WomeninGreen.org