I think if they wanted to make the American people more interested in bombing Iraq they'd engineer something specifically to do with Iraq.

This man was kidnapped and executed because he was an American, a reporter, and a Jew (making him an agent of the Mossad in his kidnappers eyes, or so I'm told). This doesn't make me (as an American) think that we should bomb Iraq (though I think ending the Gulf War with the liberation of Kuwait was stupid). If we catch Suddam Hussein trying to invade Saudi Arabia or smuggle some kind of bomb into the US, well that's a different matter entirely.

I'm not so naive as to think that the people who did this didn't feel justified in their actions or to think that America's hands are clean of the blood of innocents (and many people are, I hate to say). That doesn't mean we shouldn't protect ourselves though. I also feel that "protecing ourselves" shouldn't be all bombs and bullets.