Sen. Specter Wants Probe of Possible Link Between Iraq, Oklahoma Bombing

newsmax.com ^ | 10-12-02 | Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com

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WASHINGTON – The senior senator from Pennsylvania plans to seek an investigation into alleged ties between the two Americans convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, members of Islamist terrorist groups, and the Iraqi military. "We will pursue it," Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday after hearing a one-hour presentation from former Oklahoma City television reporter Jayna Davis on the information she uncovered in a multi-year investigation.

"We will send it over to the FBI and we will continue to look at it," Specter told Davis during an appearance on the Michael Smerconish talk show broadcast on "1210 The Big Talker," WPHT radio in Philadelphia, live from Specter's office.

"This is a matter which warrants an inquiry, so we will do it," the senator concluded.

Davis presented Specter with 22 sworn affidavits from Oklahoma residents who have identified eight Middle Eastern men, allegedly including several former Iraqi soldiers, who the witnesses claim collaborated with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the bombing plot. McVeigh has been executed for his role in the attack; Nichols is in prison.

One of the alleged former Iraqi soldiers is Hussain Al-Hussaini. Retired Col. Patrick Lang, the former chief of human intelligence for the Defense Investigative Agency, identified a tattoo on Hussaini's shoulder as indicative of having served in Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard.

Seven Witnesses

"Seven of those witnesses place Hussain Al-Hussaini in the company of Timothy McVeigh, riding in the Ryder truck, the morning of the bombing, stepping out of that truck at ground zero, directly in front of the federal building moments before the massive fertilizer bomb exploded and speeding away from downtown in a brown Chevrolet pickup that matched the FBI's all points bulletin for foreign suspects that morning," Davis told Specter.

She believes, based on her investigation, that Hussaini is the mysterious "John Doe Number Two" authorities sought for more than two weeks after the bombing on April 19, 1995.

The witnesses she interviewed also claim to have seen Hussaini speeding away from the Murrah Federal Building after the bombing in a brown Chevrolet truck, identical to the one for which the FBI issued an all-points bulletin. That all-points bulletin was withdrawn shortly after McVeigh's arrest.

Hussaini filed a libel suit against Davis' employer in 1999 for broadcasting reports based on her investigation. The suit was dismissed, and the court found the facts in Davis' reports to be "undisputed," including the evidence allegedly tying Hussaini to McVeigh and discrediting Hussaini's alibi for April 19, 1995.

Davis also believes that Terry Nichols was the indirect link between Iraq, the Oklahoma City bombing, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.

"Terry Nichols received his bomb-making expertise from Iraqi intelligence based in the Philippines," Davis said.

According to eyewitness accounts she obtained, Nichols met with Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "in the early 1990s on the island of Mindanao ... to discuss acquisition of firearms and bomb making."

FBI Not Interested

Davis said she tried to surrender the 22 witness statements and corroborating documentation she uncovered to the FBI in 1997, but requested that agents sign a notarized receipt for the evidence. She said, after consulting with "the legal department," they refused to accept the documents.

"My attorney spoke to that DOJ attorney [involved in the prosecution of Nichols] and was told they didn't want any more documents for discovery that they would be required to remit to the defense teams," Davis said. "From there, I have been flatly refused."

Specter's office wrote the FBI Oct. 4 requesting information about why Davis' evidence was not accepted by the FBI. A staff member informed him during the presentation that the Department of Justice is "still drafting a written response" to Specter's request.

Specter noted that the U.S. Senate was debating the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq while the presentation was in progress.

'Big Point in Support of Using Force' in Iraq

"If there was a provable connection between Iraq and the Oklahoma City bombing, that kind of terrorism, that would be a very big point in support of using force," he said. "If there is a provable connection between al-Qaeda and the Oklahoma City bombing and Iraq, or if there is a connection provable between al-Qaeda and Iraq, that would be a matter of enormous importance."

After completing her presentation to Specter, Davis told CNSNews.com, "I feel much better."

She added that she would "really feel better" when the evidence had been examined and the remainder of the individuals her investigation allegedly shows were involved in the Oklahoma City bombing were brought to justice.

Smerconish told Specter and his listeners that he believed the presentation had accomplished its goal.

"We want the assurance that somebody within the government who has the expertise in analyzing these types of security matters has given her the opportunity that you've afforded her today to sit and to listen and to look at the material," he told Specter. "We want to know that the government has taken Jayna Davis seriously, evaluated her work product, and made some kind of a determination."

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Thank God for Jayna Davis! She has singlehandedly driven this issue into the common stream of thought over our current war. It used to be a 'fringe kook' theory years ago, but the people of OKcity knew.

This ties into the current intelligence probe, the Iraqi 'smoking gun', the corruption of our own government which fights this story at every turn. GO JAYNA!

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I just found this little piece of info-- totally unreported so far, and damn incriminating of the FBI:

"There is evidence that the government had advance knowledge about a possible bomb attack on the Murrah building. There is also evidence about other unexploded bombs being taken out of the Murrah building. Is any of this perhaps related to the strange death (after the bombing)supposedly a suicideof Oklahoma City Police Officer Terrence Yeakey?

We don't know whether Yeakey's death is connected to this, but his story is interesting in itself.

Yeakey was one of the very first rescue workers on the scene. He knew a lot about the bombing, according to his wife, and was very concerned about things that he knew. He expressed this to his wife and mother, and his sisters and brother-in-law.

The Oklahoma City Fire Department got a call from the FBI the weekend before the bombing to tell them to be on readied alert for something that could be taking place in the next few days. The Police Department also had some information that came through to them. While they've been very "mum" about that, we've got bits and pieces from some police dispatchers and others.

Evidently Officer Yeakey didn't feel right about keeping his mouth shut about things that he saw that just didn't look right to him.

The evidence itself shows that he obviously was murdered, even though they say he committed suicide. Yeakey was found in the outskirts of the city. He allegedly walked out into a fenced area off the road after having cut both wrists twice and then made another cut on his elbow and then cut both areas of the jugular vein on his neck.

Having lost tremendous amounts of blood in his car and elsewhere, he supposedly then walked all of this distance and then decided to shoot himself. He didn't shoot himself with his service revolver. When a law enforcement officer dies, there is almost always an autopsy. They did not do an autopsy in this case. They proclaimed it a suicide. His family is not satisfied and his wife is not satisfied.

Officer Yeakey, who was a black man, by the way, was very widely liked and respected in Oklahoma City. Was he about to blow the whistle on what he knew about the bombing?

Yes, according to his wife, he was ready to talk. Whoever killed him took his briefcase out of his car. The family finally got the briefcase after some time, but it had been in the custody of the police, who didn't want to give it up to the family. It's also believed by the wife and family that he not only had evidence in that briefcase, but that he may have also stashed other evidence somewhere else, at a storage unit. But that's never been found. "

Here's the link for the above quote:

http://www.spotlight.org/05_06_01/FBI_Falsified_Reports__Ignored/fbi_falsified_reports__ignored.html

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

It's about to happen....

[Notforprophet]

Specter noted that the U.S. Senate was debating the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq while the presentation was in progress.

I surprised he didn't interject any comments regarding Scottish Law!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Is it possible that my senator is doing something sensible?

[Biblebelter]

I would not be prepared to give Specter any credit whatsoever. He is showboating and acting purely out of self-serving reasons as is the custom among himself and his 99 other pompous colleagues. That said, sometimes people stumble into doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

[angkor]

"This is a matter which warrants an inquiry, so we will do it," the senator concluded.

Whenever Senator Single-Bullet-Theory gets involved, you can count on obsfucation and disinfo.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

*Senator Specter Ping

[backhoe]

 

 

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The OKC Bombing Roundup--
various links | 10-12-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
"Here in roughly reverse chronological order, are most of the stories we have on Free Republic regarding the OKC bombing, which has recently received more mainstream, higher-level attention than it previously had."

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this.

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Ah, Im glad someone noticed the thread! This deal with the cop being killed (post 2) was news to me. The mountain of evidence hopefully will crash under it's own weight.

The list of guilty parties has to be VERY interesting, since this investigation could yield the 'smoking gun' against Iraq. The harm that this will do obviously far outweighs the usefulness of a proven case against Saddam, due to the conspirators' desire to remain unknown.

[backhoe]

It's interesting how attention to this case alternately waxes and wanes. It seems to follow about a two-month cycle, and it seems to ramp up each time.

[madfly]

ping

[madfly]

ping

[bigeasy_70118]

Whenever Senator Single-Bullet-Theory gets involved, you can count on obsfucation and disinfo.

He also did a nice job making sure Ira Einhorn was brought to justice as well.

[madfly]

FYI

Looks like we've lost some indexers this summer.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

Davis said she tried to surrender the 22 witness statements and corroborating documentation she uncovered to the FBI in 1997, but requested that agents sign a notarized receipt for the evidence. She said, after consulting with "the legal department," they refused to accept the documents.

Why do you think the FBI continues to be disinterested in this info?

[philman_36]

I've been watching all of this with some interest, to be sure. I'm surprised so few remember Terrence Yeakey.
Suicide...right! In a pig's eye.