September 12, the day after the attacks, I found this article on WorldTribune.com Israeli intelligence: Iraq financed attacks. I’d never heard of WorldTribune.com before and since the site looked kind of sketchy I spent the next three hours trying unsuccessfully to find a second source for the story or anything to validate it.

Last night I saw a much more detailed account in the British military journal Janes. Salon lead with a story titled A Saddam connection? Yesterday night, Stratfor published U.S. May Be Refocusing on Iraq. (On the 13th Stratfor published the only article I know of pointing out that the clues found in rental cars might have been decoys, Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings) WorldTribune also published another story reaffirming their initial report about the Iraq conneciton, CIA now focusing on Iraq connection. To me, the Iraq connection makes sense. Both of Saddam’s sons are now in power in Iraq and it wouldn’t be a huge stretch to imagine a bloodfued between the Bush and Hussein families.

It has been my fear that too quick a focus on Bin Laden could overshadow another threat which could be much more dangerous. The Janes article describes Bin Laden as a “schoolboy in comparison with Mughiyeh”, so why is this the first we’ve heard of him?