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Politically, this story could be the equivalent of striking gold (err, or oil) for the war-hungry Bush administration.

The FBI is under pressure from the highest political levels in Washington to investigate suspected links between Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing.

Senior aides to US Attorney-General John Ashcroft have been given compelling evidence that former Iraqi soldiers were directly involved in the 1995 bombing that killed 185 people.

The methodically assembled dossier from Jayna Davis, a former investigative TV reporter, could destroy the official version that white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were solely responsible for what, at the time, was the worst act of terrorism on American soil.

Instead, there are serious concerns that a group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al Qaeda, used McVeigh and Nichols as front men to blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

After all, the Atta-Prague link has evaporated, the public is anxious about a military campaign, and there are significant roadblocks at the UN. The thinking is probably that something needs to be pinned on Iraq soon.

While this story has popped up before, on several occasions actually, it is now prime for the picking. Time to lean on the CIA, dredge up some evidence, and launch the missiles. That's a prediction, at least.