Well, unless it was a accident (that was one theory - Flight 800 was shot down by a USN Standard Missile - accidentally), somebody would have claimed credit.
They did. A radical Islamic group claimed rsponsibility.
They may have taken credit, but operationally their incentive was to gain notoriety, which is one thing the Clinton Administration didn’t want to give them. Instead he preferred to control the press and squelch their notoriety as a patriotic command, than to abide by the Constitution and allow free press.
A terrorist group announced it ahead of time. They said watch for something big around the Olympics. Then that little coffeepot went off under a park bench and everybody claimed that was the something big. Blamed the wrong person and everything. To protect what really happened.
They did.................