Posted on 05/14/2004 2:55:41 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Witnesses Testify to Seeing McVeigh
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By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer
McALESTER, Okla. - Moments before a bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, Rodney Johnson turned the steering wheel of his catering truck to avoid two men hurrying from the building. One was Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites).
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Johnson identified McVeigh during questioning Thursday at the state murder trial of bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. His testimony is part of a defense strategy to suggest that McVeigh received substantial help from other conspirators.
Johnson told jurors that he almost ran over McVeigh and the other man just before the April 19, 1995, blast that killed 168 people.
"They were clearly together," Johnson said. "I thought they would stop. They didn't. They continued at a very rapid, quick pace."
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The book The Third Terrorist explains who John Doe #2 is, how many people saw him get out of the Ryder trucks minutes before the explosion.
AND, John Doe #2, who is id'd in the book, was working at Logan International Airport on 9/11 as a food handler.
Very interesting article and I am amazed that there still remain unanswered questions about the bombing.
IMHO US was to quick to execute McVeigh.
The truth would've shown a much wider conspiracy involving Middle Eastern terrorists. Clinton didn't want to deal with those issues. They raise too many sticky issues, especially for liberals. It was much easier to sweep them under the rug. After all, he had to acquaint Interns with the inner workings of the White House!
I thought the same thing. I was glad at the time that we weren't looking at years of appeals by McVeigh but was surprised by how quickly the execution went through. I always thought there was more to be learned if they could break his stonewalling. Maybe a set of head panties would have sped things up.
Definitely. It wasn't just John Doe #2 either.
It took years of enduring abuse, ridicule, and threats before citizens got their government to look at Ruby Ridge and Waco. It's worse today because the stakes are higher.
It's taken nine years for one of our government entities to allow citizen eyewitnesses to testify at a trial of McVeigh or Nichols. These are ordinary people who were going about their lives that morning. They were not allowed to testify at McVeigh's trial because they saw the other men with McVeigh.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey is just one of hundreds of thousands (millions?) who is not "amazed that there still remain unanswered questions about the bombing." To wit,
"When the full stories of these two incidents (1993 WTC Center bombing and 1995 Oklahoma City bombing) are finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big explanations to these two brave women (Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie and journalist Jayna Davis). And the nation will owe them a debt of gratitude." -- Former CIA Director James Woolsey, "The Iraq Connection", Wall Street Journal, September 5, 2002
No doubt one who will have a lot of 'splainin' to do is Ms Gorelick.
There was no need to "break" McVeigh IMO -- just finish the investigation given what was known then and what people like Ms Davis have discovered since.
Why?
The fedscum blew up the OKC fed bldg!
All they have to do is fess up to it, but then they can't stomp all over the freedoms that We used to have.
Welcome to the new police state U.S.A.
I won't even get into the cutter charges that failed to detonate on the coloumns in the fed bldg, or the warnings to the Bad Attitude Towards Freedom crew to not come to work that morning.
and disappeared in their black UN helicopters?
un choppers are green with blue hats.
Lets stick with facts.
I suspect McVeigh went to his death believing he took down the building and killed all those people.
He never figured out he was merely a Patsy.
You say Clinton, but McVeigh's execution was rushed by Attorney General Ashcroft (remember all of those missing documents, and how McVeigh's team was given a week or so to review them?), and to my knowledge, the Bush Administration never has reopened the investigation of Pan Am Flight 800.
If the drums were surrounded by heavy material like sacks of Barium Sulfate with only the direction of the desired blast not covered it would have the effect of directing most of the energy in the desired direction. I have no idea if this was done and it would have taken several tons of weighting material to achieve this effect.
The government needs to come clean on this, once and for all. It is obvious that we have as yet an incomplete picture. Keeping the truth hidden for too long only engenders mistrust.
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