Mylroie: Clinton's 1993 Iraq Attack Tied to First WTC Bombing

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Friday, Oct. 18, 2002 12:30 p.m. EDT

Ex-president Bill Clinton has argued of late that President Bush should concentrate on going after those responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - and not get distracted by Saddam Hussein.

But according Laurie Mylroie, who served as Clinton's adviser on Iraq during the 1992 presidential campaign, his decision to hit Baghdad with cruise missiles on June 26, 1993, was made in part because he believed Iraq had been involved in the first World Trade Center bombing four months earlier.

"He said publicly that the U.S. strike on Iraqi intelligence headquarters was retaliation for Saddam's attempt to kill [ex-president] George Bush," Mylroie told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "[But] he also meant it for the Trade Center bombing.

"Clinton believed that the attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters would deter Saddam from all future strikes against the United States," she insisted. "It was hopelessly naive."

Mylroie said that Martin Indyk, then White House National Security Council Advisor on the Middle East, had revealed Clinton's true motivation for the June 1993 missile attacks during a private conversation in December 1994. "Indyk believed that the strike on Iraqi intelligence headquarters had stopped Saddam," she recalled.

Mylroie said the suspicion that Iraq was involved in the 1993 attack was widely believed in federal law enforcement circles. "Particularly New York FBI, then headed by Jim Fox, believed that Iraq was behind that bomb," she told Malzberg.

Though her shocking contention has yet to be taken seriously by mainstream news organizations, the former Clinton adviser is no wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.

Beyond her own recent book on the subject, "The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the WTC Attacks," Mylroie has co-authored the New York Times best seller "Saddam Hussein and The Crisis in the Gulf," written with Times terrorism expert Judith Miller.

She also has taught at the U.S. Naval War College, as well as Harvard University.

Skeptics of Mylroie's contentions argue that if Clinton truly believed Iraq was tied to the 1993 Trade Center attack, he would have had no reason not to say so publicly.

But the noted Iraq expert explained that the ex-president "had a very ambitious domestic program [at the time]. If he told the American people that Saddam was trying to topple [the World Trade Center], they probably would have demanded that he do an awful lot more than simply strike Iraqi intelligence headquarters.

"They might have demanded that Clinton get rid of Saddam. And he didn't want to do that," she added.

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