16 Facts About Laurie Mylroie

Laurie Mylroie was born on July 22,1953 and is an American author and analyst who has written extensively on Iraq and the War on Terror.

Laurie Mylroie claimed those attacks were part of an ongoing war that Saddam waged against America following the cease-fire to the 1991 Gulf War.

Laurie Mylroie's writings are considered to have been influential among neoconservatives during the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Laurie Mylroie earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.

Laurie Mylroie studied Arabic at the American University of Cairo.

Laurie Mylroie met with Bill Clinton on Iraq during Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, but she became a strong critic of Clinton for what she came to charge was his mishandling of the terrorism that began on his watch, starting with the February 26,1993, bombing of New York's World Trade Center.

Laurie Mylroie was a research fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and then with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, as well as an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Laurie Mylroie deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, where she served as a cultural adviser to the US military.

Laurie Mylroie has written three books and numerous articles, which have appeared in The American Spectator, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Commentary, The National Interest, The New Republic, Newsweek, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Washington Times, among others.

However, US investigators say that 'Yousef' and Basit are in fact one and the same person, and that the man Laurie Mylroie describes as an Iraqi agent is in fact a Pakistani with ties to al Qaeda.

Laurie Mylroie offers no real evidence linking Hussein to the 1998 bombings.

In 2008, Laurie Mylroie, writing in the New York Sun, reviewed Willful Blindness by Andrew C McCarthy, who had prosecuted Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman in 1995.

Laurie Mylroie explained that other elements of the plot had been organized by Sudan, as the trial transcript made clear.

Laurie Mylroie responded to McCarthy, saying that McCarthy himself had written in his book that the original case against Rahman was "weak" and so, she wrote, "different acts of violence, including the WTC bombing, were somewhat artificially linked" to strengthen the charges against him.

Laurie Mylroie emphasized McCarthy's comment that Rahman was never charged with the "substantive crime" of bombing the World Trade Center.

Early in her career, Laurie Mylroie advocated support for Iraq in the context of its war and rivalry with Iran.