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Oklahoma City -- A Decade Laterby William F. JasperApril 18, 2005 Issue  Before 9/11 there was Oklahoma City. Before the name of Osama bin Laden entered public discourse there was Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001 for his role in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. (THE NEW AMERICAN'S extensive investigative effort has led the way in exposing the Oklahoma City Bombing cover-up.)Two days after the OKC bombing, President Clinton vowed: “Justice for these killers will be certain, swift and severe. We will find them, we will convict them, and we will...

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Rita Cosby on 10th Anniversary of OKC bombing - LIVE ON AIR NOW.

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

Ward Churchill is the professor from Colorado University who called the dead in the World Trade Center "Nazis" and also said that the US deserved 9/11, and that we should have not fought back. Prof Churchill may get fired from the University of Colorado-Bolder He may appear on March 1st, time pending, if the administration approves of it.

In his FrontPage Magazine article Andrew Alexander’s Lies About the Cold War, Jamie Glazov speaks of the Soviet regime’s aggressive and expansionist designs against the West in the post-WWII period, and how de-classified Soviet sources prove that they had extensively infiltrated their agents into Western society. "...the Venona transcripts are thousands of Soviet intelligence messages that were intercepted and decoded over four decades by the FBI and the NSA (National Security Agency). Released over the past few years, these files prove that there was a large-scale Communist penetration of the U.S. government, and that Communist spies passed on valuable information...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly released memo warned the White House at the start of the Bush administration that al Qaeda represented a threat throughout the Islamic world, a warning that critics said went unheeded by President Bush (news - web sites) until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The memo dated Jan. 25, 2001 -- five days after Bush took office -- was an essential feature of last year's hearings into intelligence failures before the attacks on New York and Washington. A copy of the document was posted on the National Security Archive Web site on Thursday. The memo, from...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah...

Terry Nichols confessed during secret plea negotiations last year that he had a major role in the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He also stated that he knew of no other conspirators in the attack that left 168 dead, including 19 children. "I am unaware as to who was involved in the planning besides McVeigh,'' he stated. However, Nichols refused to disclose where he hid stolen blasting caps left over from the making of the bomb. Nichols, 49, never testified at his 1997 federal trial or this year's state trial. His attorneys claimed he had no part in the attack...

<p>Editor's note: In his extraordinary new DVD documentary, "Mega Fix," Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the political exploitation of terror investigations by the Clinton White House in the desperate 1995-1996 election cycle. This eight part series, which began in Oklahoma City, culminates at the 9-11 commission hearings. To arrange a showing in your city, contact Jack Cashill.</p>

KOCO Will Not Air 'Saving Private Ryan' A Statement From KOCO-TV's President And General Manager "It has been a subject of considerable discussion within our station as to whether 'Saving Private Ryan' is appropriate for broadcast prior to 9 p.m. The movie has been recommended by the motion picture industry itself for mature audiences only due to its language and violent content. Recent discussions by the Federal Communications Commission have established new legal standards for what broadcast stations may and may not broadcast prior to 9 p.m. Until the FCC or the courts clarify those legal standards, we are left...

In this stunning, surprisingly entertaining, 90-minute DVD video documentary, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of September 11 to the perfect storm of disinformation that surrounded the Clintons' desperate drive for the White House in the years 1995-1996. Cashill leads the viewer from Oklahoma City to Dubrovnik, where Ron Brown's plane crashed, to the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia to the destruction of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island to the Olympic Park bombing. As Cashill proves beyond dispute in this DVD, these are not multiple conspiracies, but all part of one major political fix, the mother of all...

Speaking publicly for the first time, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols on Monday asked survivors and families of victims for forgiveness and offered to correspond with them if they felt it would help them cope with the 1995 bombing that left 168 people dead.... My heart truly goes out to all the victims, survivors and anyone who has been affected by the Oklahoma City bombing," he said. "Words cannot adequately express the sorrow I have had over the years of the grief that so many have endured and continue to suffer. I am truly sorry for what occurred." Nichols...

For those of you who are nightowls, insomniacs, long-haul truck drivers, or just interested in hearing about one of the great coverups in the 20th Century, tune in late tonight/early morning and hear Jayna Davis for three hours on COAST TO COAST. JAYNA DAVIS DOT COM Jayna has extensive evidence and many witnesses to prove that Iraqis living in this country were involved in the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. This is not going to be hidden forever.

What do some of the craziest events in recent American History all have in common? No, this is not another Blue Dress story, but it is about the biggest crime Bill Clinton committed as president. It was such a small political lie for him but it turned out to have incredible ramifications to our country. Slick Willy may be headed for the title of worst president in United States history, in fact, he might even qualify for the biggest traitor label. And further more, you don’t even suspect it happened. Just what was Sandy Berger doing stuffing documents into his...

On page 188 of THE THIRD TERRORIST, we learn about what may be evidence tampering by the FBI. If this is true, many people are implicated, and it is the reason that the real case has not been allowed to come forward. Witnesses have said that McVeigh and a Middle Easterner checked into the Cactus Motel (ficticious name) on April 18. The FBI took the original records. What they were returned were copies. Instead of room 105 being occupied by McVeigh and his Iraqi pal that night, the photocopied records showed that room 105 was empty. The witnesses could not...

Great news, FReepers. Jayna Davis, who blows the lid off the OKC bombing coverup, will be joining us here early next week to answer our questions. Please get the book -- THE THIRD TERRORIST -- and we can help her spread the word. All America has to learn about the Iraq connection with Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The amount of evidence and eye witnessess can no longer be ignored. David Schippers and James Woolsey are totally behind her. I'll post another thread when we can set up the evening she will be here to join us. READ THE...

McALESTER, Okla. - Two members of the jury considering sentencing for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols were dismissed by the judge Wednesday and were replaced by the last two remaining alternate jurors. Judge Steven Taylor did not explain what the two jurors did wrong, but he strongly told the rest of the panel not to discuss the case outside of regular jury deliberations. "Do not discuss sentencing," Taylor said following a one-hour closed meeting with prosecution and defense attorneys. "Do not allow anyone to discuss it with you." One of the jurors dismissed Wednesday was the jury foreman. Nichols...

Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols met with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines before he and Timothy McVeigh carried out their plot, investigative reporter Jayna Davis said Wednesday. "Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef met personally in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao in the early 1990s to discuss, of all things, bombmaking," Davis told ABC Radio Network host John Batchelor. On Wednesday, an Oklahoma jury returned a 161 count murder verdict against Nichols. He is expected to face the death penalty. But the bizarre Yousef-Nichols tie-in did not come up in the trial. Davis said she...

In his latest book, The Science of Good & Evil, Skeptic Magazine publisher Michael Shermer suggests that the 9/11 terrorist attacks might somehow be justifiable. He should issue a public apology for trying to minimize the evil of these actions and ignoring the human pain they caused. On page 81, Mr. Shermer writes: "September 11, 2001, comes to mind here. United States President George W. Bush described what happened that day as an act of pure evil. Yet millions of people around the world celebrate that day as a triumphant victory over what they perceive to be an evil American...

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on evidence there were more conspirators involved in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nichols is on trial in McAlester, Okla., on state charges stemming from the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — There's a log describing a tape - but no tape itself. A Secret Service agent has testified that an agency document written shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage and witness testimony - suggesting Timothy McVeigh may have had some help. The log describes footage showing the federal building explosion, about three minutes after "suspects" exited the Ryder truck used in the blast. But she says there's no evidence that the tape exists. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck alone, and that it had no tapes showing the bombing or...

In the audio interview in the links below, Tonia Yeakey tells the story of Terrance Yeakey, an American hero. He was the first OKC Police Department officer inside the Murrah Building after the bombing on April 19,1995. Terrance Yeakey went straight into the building and started rescuing survivors. A year later, on May 8,1996, Terry's body was found in a field one and a half miles from his car. His car was filled with blood. Terry was found with his jugular vein cut in two places, both wrists cut, and both arms cut at the elbow and rope burns on ...

WASHINGTON - A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) may have had accomplices at the scene. "Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck," the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah...

Sept. 11 Commission testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to an investigative reporter whose new book on the subject was addressed at the hearing. Jayna Davis, author of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," told WorldNetDaily Freeh's "carefully parsed" response to a question about her findings "expressed his belief that the book is a credible source." The new release by WND Books presents substantial evidence of Iraqi involvement and a refusal by federal government agents to investigate...

An ex-wife of accused Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols testified Tuesday she found $20,000 hidden in a Wal-Mart bag Nichols hid in her kitchen in November 1994. Lana Padilla said Nichols stashed the money at her home in Las Vegas while he traveled to the Philippines. Padilla testified Tuesday afternoon at the Pittsburg County Courthouse, where Nichols is facing trial on state charges for the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols and Padilla were divorced and married to others in November 1994, but Padilla said Nichols traveled to her home to visit their son. Padilla said she...

<p>Books about public policy and the careers of bureaucrats rarely become national sensations. But Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies is generating intense interest far beyond Washington's Beltway.</p> <p>Clarke, the former top White House counterterrorism official, says President Bush and his advisers ignored his warnings in 2001 that an al-Qaeda attack was imminent and were fixated on going to war in Iraq.</p>

I suspect that if I were to take a poll in Oklahoma today as to whether or not the current trial of Terry Nichols is justified, the answer would be almost 100 percent in the affirmative. Nichols, after all, has been convicted in federal court for having a crucial role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and received a life sentence. It is that sentence that has Oklahomans enraged, however, and now he is being tried on state charges of murder for one and only one reason: so he can receive the death penalty. If there ever was a case...

McALESTER, Okla. -- Terry Nichols went on trial for his life Monday in the Oklahoma City bombing and was alternately portrayed as an eager participant in the attack and a fall guy in a conspiracy wider than the government has acknowledged. Nichols hated the U.S. government and worked hand-in-hand with Timothy McVeigh in assembling and detonating the ''huge, monstrous bomb,'' prosecutor Lou Keel said during opening statements in the state murder trial. ''These two were partners, and their business was terrorism,'' Keel said. Nichols, wearing a gray sport jacket over a white, buttoned-down collar shirt, occasionally whispered to his attorneys...

The always fascinating Dan Drezner has a bunch of good posts up.. sorry, we are going to skip to the red meat: On Page 127 [of his new "Against All Enemies"], Clarke notes that it's possible that al-Qaida operatives in the Philippines "taught Terry Nichols how to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building." Intelligence places Nichols there on the same days as Ramzi Yousef, and "we do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippines stay and were deadly when he returned." This ties in to the theory that Clinton quashed investigations into a foreign connection to Terry...

Withheld evidence to sink case against Nichols? Massive FBI intel failure, wider conspiracy in 1995 terror expected to emerge Posted: March 20, 20047:05 p.m. Eastern By J.D. Cash © 2004 McCurtain Daily Gazette In a phone call from a federal prison yesterday, convicted bank bandit and former Aryan Republican Army leader Peter Kevin Langan Jr. made a startling revelation to the McCurtain Daily Gazette – that former associate Richard Lee Guthrie Jr. robbed a Hot Springs, Ark., gun dealer in November 1994, not accused Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. That revelation from Langan is expected to be one of a number coming...

The mainline media was generally oblivious to the rising influence of the new kids on the block but a wake-up shock hit them during the November 1994 elections, which produced a landslide turn toward conservatism.  The TV network news organizations covering election returns that night were visibly shaken by the results.  Dan Rather referred to it as a "national temper tantrum."  The national temper tantrum continued to build in crescendo and the left-wing socialist agenda of 30 years seemed in dire straights.  That was until the morning of April 19, 1995 when a tragic bomb blast in Oklahoma City killed...

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI agents destroyed evidence and failed to share other information that raised the possibility that a gang of white supremacist bank robbers may have assisted Timothy McVeigh during the Oklahoma City bombing, according to documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. Both the FBI supervisor who ran the Oklahoma City investigation and the veteran agent who was in command at the bombing scene say the new evidence, detailed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, is serious enough to warrant reopening the inquiry nine years later. The evidence, never shared with Oklahoma City investigators or defense lawyers, includes...

FBI Suspected McVeigh Link to Robbers JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON - The FBI believed Timothy McVeigh tried to recruit additional help in the days before the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and gathered evidence that white supremacist bank robbers may have become involved, according to government documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. The retired FBI chief of the Oklahoma City investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said he was unaware of some evidence obtained by The Associated Press and that the investigation should be reopened to determine whether the robbery gang was linked to McVeigh. The evidence never shared with Defenbaugh's investigators...

Oklahoma Bomber To Present Conspiracy Evidence ............ TIM TALLEY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) -- An Oklahoma judge has left the door open for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols to present evidence of a wider conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. But District Judge Steven Taylor said Monday that before a jury hears the evidence, Nichols must prove that additional conspirators committed specific, overt acts to plan and carry out the bombing. "Mr. Nichols is going to be allowed to present his defense,'' Taylor said, ruling that prosecution motions to prevent Nichols from presenting evidence of other bombing suspects were premature....

Did Nichols and Yousef meet? Closer analysis of Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef timelines creates a compelling, if still circumstantial, case — and offers clues to where the smoking guns may be found By J.M. BERGER INTELWIRE.com In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus in the Philippines. Whether their paths crossed is a question that still dogs researchers. But it's increasingly clear that what separates their respective itineraries is sometimes a matter of yards, feet or even inches, within a span of days, hours and sometimes mere minutes. They...

McALESTER, Okla. — The presiding judge in the trial of bombing conspirator Terry Nichols ordered a former congressional aide to search items seized from his home for material connected to the deadly explosion. Judge Steven Taylor told John Culbertson during a pretrial hearing Wednesday to look through the nine computers, hundreds of disks and other items before they're returned to his home in Virginia. "I want it done as quickly as possible," Taylor said. Culbertson earlier presented a series of photographs that merely show a cloud of smoke, apparently unrelated to the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred...

The Fairfax County, Va., home of John Culbertson – once a member of former U.S. Rep. James Traficant’s scandal-plagued congressional office – was raided Friday afternoon by Oklahoma City police detectives searching for evidence related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. A copy of the search warrant obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette described the evidence sought by detectives as including any and all computer equipment, letters, correspondence, electronic mail and image files. The raid was prompted after a Jan. 27 “in-camera hearing” attended by prosecutors and defense attorneys involved with the Terry Nichols murder trial, set to begin...

The Iraq Connection By MICAH MORRISON OKLAHOMA CITY -- With the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism. Jayna Davis, a former television reporter in Oklahoma City, believes an Iraqi cell was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building here. Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie links Iraq to the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and has published a book on the subject. Both cases...

Just days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the INS deported Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, even though the FBI had evidence that linked the Saudi businessman to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Bojinka plot and Oklahoma City. Not only was Khalifa deported to Jordan, where he was subsequently freed, but the U.S. government let him leave with potentially incriminating evidence and cleared his record of terrorism charges. Evidence in the FBI's possession at the time potentially implicated the Saudi businessman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the airliner bombing plot and the Oklahoma City...

This essay is part of “Terrorists, Despots, and Democracy: What Our Children Need To Know,” a report just released by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. My understanding of the main ideas and safeguards undergirding the American criminal justice system goes back, literally, to what I learned in elementary school. I recall learning that it was better for ten guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be imprisoned. I learned that such constitutional shields were essential since citizens (whom I remember as invariably portrayed in textbooks as noble and innocent) needed protection from government (which was implicitly...

Downtown Oklahoma City was buzzing and packed out as people turned out early to see Billy Graham on Thursday night. We arrived early with some friends, and with some VIP passes in our hands.... so we avoided all of the HUGE lines. An incredible number of people were lined up 3 hours before the service was scheduled to start. After filling the 20 thousand seat Ford Center, officials moved another 9 or 10 thousand people into the overflow Cox Arena, formerly known as the Myriad Convention Center. The music featured Point Of Grace, and they sang 3 songs with a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ten days before Timothy McVeigh was executed, lawyers for FBI lab employees sent an urgent letter to the attention of Attorney General John Ashcroft alleging that a key prosecution witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial might have given false testimony about forensic evidence. The allegations involving Steven Burmeister, now the FBI lab's chief of scientific analysis, were never turned over to McVeigh or the trial court, though they surfaced as the judge was considering whether to delay his execution because the government withheld evidence. The letter, however, was recently turned over to bombing conspirator Terry Nichols...

Nichols to face another murder count 2003-04-28 By The Associated Press A new murder charge will be filed against Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. Assistant District Attorney Lou Keel said Nichols will be charged with first-degree murder for the death of the unborn child of bombing victim Robin Ann Huff. Keel said Nichols is currently charged with first-degree manslaughter for the unborn child's death. Keel said a recent federal appeals court ruling makes murder the proper charge. Nichols already faces 160 first-degree murder counts for his role in the 1995 bombing. A preliminary hearing is to begin on Monday...

Entertainment - AP Music Radio Host Organizing Pro-America Rallies Wed Mar 26, 2:20 PM ET By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - Flag-draped "Rallies for America" across the country are drawing thousands of people to demonstrate support for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf — a less visible counterpoint to the large crowds who have flocked to anti-war protests. AP Photo Many of the pro-military gatherings were originated by syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, whose Philadelphia-based show is heard in more than 100 markets. There have been nearly 20 in recent weeks, with organizers estimating total attendance into the...

Just wanted to let everyone know that this evening, approximately 6000 great Oklahomans, young and old, gathered at 50 Penn Place for a Rally for America to show support to our president and our troops. It lasted for over an hour and a half. It was fantastic. I was so proud of my fellow Oklahomans. And the local ABC affiliate was present, taping greetings to service men and women, from anyone who wanted to speak. They will be sending those tapes to our military. Also, there was a huge postcard, that was massive, and everyone signed the postcard, put inspirational...

Cross Ordered Removed From State Fair Park Couch Says Letters Threatened Lawsuit POSTED: 9:37 a.m. CST February 27, 2003 UPDATED: 10:39 a.m. CST February 28, 2003 OKLAHOMA CITY -- A 30-foot high white concrete cross has been removed from State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. Cross Ordered Removed From State Fair Park City Manager Jim Couch said he ordered the cross removed after getting two letters that suggested the city could be sued for violating the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against state-sponsored religion. The cross had been at Fair Park for about 40 years, but fair officials are not sure...