[knak]

Here's a story that may interest you, I saw it earlier today.

Suspect said he had ties to terrorist group

excerpt:

In September 2001, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement interviewed Hammoud because someone had anonymously called saying Hammoud had made a comment that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to be small compared to what was coming. Hammoud told agents that he had said that Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, could be considered a martyr for his stand against the U.S. government, according to Baugher's affidavit.

[JohnBerger]

Thanks, I saw that this morning. I noted that with interest; I've been following that case and another very similar one for a number of reasons.

Middle Eastern terrorists seem to be quite enamored of the OKC bombing; al Qaeda terrorists and their supporters frequently cite it, with all kinds of weird little variations. Mahmud Abouhalima (a prime candidate for an ME connection to OKC) discussed it for a prison interview in the book "Terror in the Mind of God." He said: "(The Oklahoma City bombing) was done for a very, very specific reason. They had some certain target, you know, a specific achievement. (...) They wanted to reach the government with the message that we are not tolerating the way you are dealing with our citizens."

He later characterized McVeigh and Nichols by saying, "If these guys, whoever they are, did whatever bombing they say they did in Oklahoma City, ( on to a political statement about the morality of killing in terrorism....)"

Nothing you could take to court, of course, but curious...

JMB