On February 26, 1993, a massive bomb exploded in the parking garage of the north tower of the World Trade Center building in New York City, killing six people and leaving a crater six stories deep in the building's basement floors. The mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, later boasted that he had hoped to kill 250,000 people. Yousef's bombing plots gave rise to the notion that a new form of international terrorism had emerged that was not state-sponsored, but said to consist of "loose networks" of militant Muslims, not backed by states. Yet, there is considerable evidence that the Trade Center bombing was a case of Iraqi intelligence directing a major terrorist operation and leaving behind a few minor figures to be arrested and take the blame.

Dr. Laurie Mylroie is the publisher of Iraq News and an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of "Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America" (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2000; Harper Collins, 2001). Dr. Mylroie's previous book, co-authored with Judith Miller, "Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf," was a number one New York Times bestseller, and was translated into 13 languages. She was an Assistant Professor in Harvard's Political Science Department before becoming an Associate Professor in the Strategy Department at the US Naval War College. She also served as advisor on Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign, and she has worked as a consultant on terrorism to ABC News, the BBC, Newsweek, and the US Department of Defense. Dr. Mylroie received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, and her BA from Cornell University.