The Iraq Connection - Was Saddam involved in OK City and the 1st WTC bombing? ~ Micah Morrison

The Wall Street Journal. editorial page ^ | September 5, 2002 | Micah Morrison, WSJ. Senior Editorial Page Writer

[Elle Bee]

Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?

OKLAHOMA CITY -- With the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism. Jayna Davis, a former television reporter in Oklahoma City, believes an Iraqi cell was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building here. Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie links Iraq to the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and has published a book on the subject.

[Elle Bee]

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[Lord_Baltar]

It's going to be interesting what else they are going to try and connect him to.

I must say, in all seriousness, I hope they look into Saddam's connections to other things as well. How do we know that Iceberg that sunk the Titanic wasn't an Iraqi plot. Or how about that strange explosion of the Hindenburg, that looked an awful lot like a terrorist bomb.

I also hear tell that John Wilkes Booth had some pretty serious meetings with Saddam, where he recieved a complete map of Ford's Theatre...

[Leisler]

Yea, right. Crazy stuff like Nazi subs dropping off saboteurs, or Japanese taking pictures of Pearl Harbor from the cain fields, or high officials of the FDR and Truman administration being active Russian communist agents. Na.

[Lord_Baltar]

Yeah, you're right, we should be looking to see if Saddam was connected to all that as well...

(pssssssst, my bad, I forgot to include the /sarcasm thing on the previous post...)

[KeyBored]

I for one didn't need the < sarcasm > tag. I happen to agree with the point you were making.

I vote we believe everything the Government tells us, and quit buying into these crazy conspiracy theories.

After all, the government is just made up of fine, upstanding people who never have an agenda or would never lie to us.

You know, fine people like
LBJ
Rober McNamara
Janet Reno
And who can forget the king of all honest people, old Xlinton himself

Yeah, a person would have to be a real nutcase to not take everyting the Govt. says at face value.

Oh yeah, I forgot . . . < /sarcasm >

[the crow]

OKC bump

[Lord_Baltar]

Thank you. I figured the fact, that, well gee, SADDAM WASN"T even born when the Titanic sank might have been the first clue to my sarcasm.

Oh Well...

I guess I'll have to be careful about making that connection between Saddam, and that Meteor that wiped out the Dinosaurs.

I'll be sure to include the /sarcasm thing in that post...

[LS]

I for one am willing to consider conspiracy things beyond McVeigh and Nichols in OKC. However, any theory not only has to place someone "there," but has to explain why McVeigh totally and completely rejected such suggestions---the man had nothing to lose!---and why Nichols, with everything to gain, STILL has had his lawyers not take this tack.

In short, the two people with the most to gain by having a foreign involvement, and the two with the most to lose by being the sole culprits, have both rejected the notion that anyone else was involved. As I say, I'm certainly open to evidence, and would be, well, not happy to hear that Saddam was involved, but it wouldn't surprise me. But being "unsurprised" is not the same as convinced.

[Straight Vermonter]

I know these stories have been well covered by some smaller midwestern newspapers but as far as I know this is the first coverage by a mainstream big city newspaper. Anyone know if this is true?

[aculeus]

Lord Haw Haw : Hitler = Lord X : Saddam.

Students, please identify "X".

[hobbes1]

War Drum Ping.

[piasa]

Why yes, Hussein is a saint. So is Imad Mugniyah. And Abu Nidal, now that guy was a real sweetheart. Nevermind those embassy bombings... or Khobar Towers, ir countless other things where they shed human blood, we can always count on the peace at any price crowd to excuse them all and blame the US, and tell us that the word of dictators is always worth more than the word of US citizens. Iraqi defectors are always lying when they talk bad about Iraq.... Iraqi hired help is always speaking the truth when they say Iraq is innocent. Trust the Iraqi national press, and the radical papers of the middle east, but don't believe Ari Fleischer. Trust the Physicians for a Responsible Society, even when they lie they mean well; and trust Ramsey Clark when he panders to Arafat, but don't trust Donald Rumsfeld.

Yeah, right. (/sarcasm)

[mombonn]

Bump to read later.

[thinden]

good to see michah morrison back on the beat.

the pressure to remove sadaam must be mighty intense if the bush administration is willing to expose a ME tie in to murrah after 7 years of covering up?

[Poohbah]

Lord Haw Haw : Hitler = Lord X : Saddam.

Students, please identify "X".

Oh, goodie, one of those "solve for X" thingies!

Hmm...Lord X = Lord_Baltar? Did I get it right, teach?

[Orual]

Students, please identify "X".

Uh, thinking...

[Lord_Baltar]

Ooooooh You got me there Pooh....

Oh, prick us, do we not bleed...

Oh the pain, the agony, the utter torment. I've been verbally assaulted by someone with a room temperature IQ...

[Plummz]

The Wolfowitzes have to be very careful about exposing the "Saddam connection," sionce the Iraqis involved all seem to be among the thousands of Republican Guard members Poppy Bush moved to Oklahoma (and Nebraska) after the Gulf War.

[Poohbah]

Oh the pain, the agony, the utter torment. I've been verbally assaulted by someone with a room temperature IQ...

Only if the room is a tin shack in the Sahara Desert at noontime during summer.

[machman]

No no no, Sadam had nothing to do with it. It was all those crazy right wing republicans that are to blame. I know because the klintoon told us so. He wouldn't lie, would he??