March 30, 1997 Electronic Telegraph Issue 674
Dennis Mahon must lead a charmed life. The FBI has pursued endless leads into the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, collecting more than 26,000 witness statements. But it has never been to visit him at his bungalow in Tulsa. The omission is curious. Mahon, 47, is an associate of the government's chief suspect, Tim McVeigh. Indeed, McVeigh's defence team says Mahon sent a tape to their client in prison urging him to accept his "sacrifice" and reminding him in a subtle way that members of his family were vulnerable. Before the bombing on April 19, 1995, he was the subject of a terrorism investigation which generated allegations that he was plotting to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma. In case the authorities had overlooked this, an undercover informant reminded the FBI two days after the bombing that she had told them that Mahon had made three trips to Oklahoma City. On one visit in 1994, the informant said he "cased" the building that was attacked. A former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and now a leader of the more militant White Aryan Resistance, Mahon has never made a secret of his extremism. He has called for the overthrow of the United States government by "any means" and regards it as an honour to have been barred from Britain and Canada. "I always deliver my bombs in person, in disguise," he said mischievously. "I can look like a hispanic or even a Negro. I'm the master of disguise." He has kept his sense of humour, despite being the chief target of McVeigh's defence team in the trial that starts tomorrow. McVeigh's lawyers have introduced documents in court asserting a "high probability" that Mahon and his friend Andreas Strassmeir, a former German army officer, were behind the Oklahoma bombing. "This is where I make my bombs," he said, giving me a tour of a workshop attached to his house. "Just kidding. Everybody seems to think I did the bombing. Even the Iraqis think I did it," he explained, saying he had been on the Iraqi payroll as a propagandist for more than three years. "They paid me $100 a month."
I have also found that federal agency testimony before Congress beginning in the 1990s made the drug gangs - radical Islam connections.
For example, a year ago "Gen. James T. Hill, SouthCom's commander, pushing for help to fight the potential threat, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that three Middle Eastern groups on the State Department's terrorist list may have a presence in South America -- Hezbollah (Party of God), Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) and Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group). 'Radical Islamic supporters have long gathered in areas such as the tri-border region between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, known for its deep links to a full range of transnational criminal activities,' Hill said. [end excerpt]
Glad to see that at least outside the White House some people in Washington are willing to name the enemy. Gee, I wonder if the general got fired? Meanwhile Saudi Arabia pours millions of dollars into South America to spread radical Islam.
Left out of the article is the radical Chicano Atzlan - radical Islam connection, mostly Palestinian.
Why should anyone be surprised by these facts even if there have been no thirty second segments on ABCNNBCBS "news?"
Then there's the federal lawsuit brought by OKC bombing survivors against Iraq claiming to have a "mountain" of evidence of Iraqi involvement.
I would not be surprised to find a radical Islam connecton -- even if Tom, Dan, and Peter and the really, really smart Americans feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel otherwise.