Asian Times has a piece alleging that the Saudi government was not truthful in its investigation of the 1996 bombing of a US military barracks at Khobar Towers. The article (either part one of two or three) asserts that Al-Qaeda, not Saudi Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.

I’m curious why this piece is finding its way into print in Asian Times, not The New York Times or The Washington Post, or even The Washington Times which is certainly no friend of Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the later parts will tell…

Al-Qaeda excluded from suspect list
Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON — On June 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb exploded at a building in the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, which housed United States Air Force personnel, killing 19 airmen and wounding 372.

Immediately after the blast, more than 125 agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were ordered to the site to sift for clues and begin the investigation of who was responsible. But when two US Embassy officers arrived at the scene of the devastation early the next morning, they found a bulldozer beginning to dig up the entire crime scene.
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