London Bombings: It's all about Iraq

Harry's place has an excellent post criticising those who blame the London bombings on the Iraq war.....

For the hard of remembering I set out below the evidence in support of the contention that 'It's not all about Iraq':

February 1993: First bombing of World Trade Center; 6 killed.

June 1996: Truck bomb explodes outside Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; 19 killed, hundreds of others injured.

August 1998: Bombing of Embassies in East Africa; 224 killed.

September 2001: Destruction of World Trade Centre and attack on Pentagon, thousands dead and injured.

November 2002: Explosion at synogogue in Tunisia leaves 17 dead.

October 2002: Nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, 202 dead.

May 2003: Suicide bombers kill 34 at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Are these Islamist bombings of Western targets to vanish down the memory plughole because their dates don't fit the chronology or are they to be explained away as acts of retaliation against the imperialist invasion of Iraq - just, er, in advance of the actual deed?