OKC BOMBING FALLOUT: 9-11 panel confronts Freeh on Iraq link

worldnetdaily.com ^ | Posted: April 14, 2004 | worldnetdaily.com

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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 the bombing that killed nearly 170 people in April 19, 1995.

Davis repeatedly has tried since 1997, with no success, to convince the FBI to examine her investigation.

Yesterday, however, Lehman brought the issue before the 9-11 Commission with the former FBI director on the witness stand.

LEHMAN: One last question. The Oklahoma City case – again, one of the criticisms has been that one of the problems of the case law approach to intelligence is that, once you focus on a convicting particular terrorists, that there has to be a hypothesis of the case and that's where all of the investigative resources are put in. In the case of Oklahoma City, the hypothesis was that there were two Americans and they acted alone. There's a new book out now, as you probably know, called The Third Terrorist, that has new information that begs for further investigation showing the links or purporting very significant links between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines, and also links between the two perpetrators and Hussein al-Husseini, the Iraqi, perhaps, agent. Are you satisfied that you ran all of these potential Al Qaida links to ground with McVeigh and Nichols?

FREEH: Well, other than that book, which I haven't read, you know, I don't know any other credible source with respect to that kind of a link. No, I have not run those links myself. I certainly was not aware of them when I was FBI director. I know that there is a review going on with respect to some of the matters that have been raised by his attorney in connection with the state murder prosecution that's ongoing. I guess I don't want to say anything with respect to that case as it's being tried now by a judge and a jury. But I don't know of any connections, except the one you've just mentioned, between Ramzi Yousef and that terrorist act.

Davis noted Freeh was careful to say he knew of no other "credible source," instead of dismissing the premise of the book outright.

"I find it very encouraging," she said, "because every time the FBI has been asked to officially comment in any fashion about my research, we have the same canned response that the Department of Justice is confident that all those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing have been arrested, charged and prosecuted."

Or we hear, she continued, "that the FBI dedicated an untold number of resource and manpower into the largest criminal investigation of the 20th century and turned up no credible evidence of a Middle East connection."

Freeh's response, Davis emphasized, is "huge."

"He would not rule it out," she said.

Davis said it's possible Freeh was not aware during his time as FBI director of any credible sources linking Iraq to the bombing.

"It was my impression he was being sincere," she said. "According to my sources in the FBI, he was last to know anything."

Davis's reporting was vetted by former CIA director James Woolsey and given credibility by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last April when it dismissed a lawsuit filed against her after finding "defendants did not recklessly disregard the truth" in reporting on an Iraqi soldier's alleged involvement in the bombing.

"After eight years of oppressive litigation, the courts have vindicated my work ethic as a dedicated journalist," Davis told WorldNetDaily at the time. "The lawsuit was obviously designed to silence a legitimate investigation into Middle Eastern complicity in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing."

In an interview with WND in October 2001, attorney David Schippers, who prosecuted the House of Representatives' impeachment case against Bill Clinton, said his examination of the evidence Davis presented him was conclusive.

"I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing," he said.

Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.

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[ovrtaxt]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. WHY doesn't the Bush Admin trumpet this case as justification for the Iraq invasion? What's the big problem?

And why do a bunch of internet users know more about this case than the FBI and CIA directors?

There's corruption somewhere. Sure the 911 commission is a witch hunt, but they're doing a good job of stirring up the crud that has laid silently at the bottom of the government fishtank.

[ovrtaxt]

You posted a pic a while ago of Padilla and the artist's sketch of the third OKC terrorist. Can you post that again?

[Mr. Mojo]

WHY doesn't the Bush Admin trumpet this case as justification for the Iraq invasion?

Seems Bush goes way out of his way not to step on Clinton's toes.

[potlatch]

testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing,

[ovrtaxt]

Thanks for the ping help. There are quite a few who follow this OKC/ Jayna Davis thing, but I don't have a ping list for it.

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Seems Bush goes way out of his way not to step on Clinton's toes.

Stolen FBI files?

[Rebelbase]

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing.

[Capt. Tom]

And why do a bunch of internet users know more about this case than the FBI and CIA directors?

My sentiments exactly. What these hearings are proving is how incompetent our FBI, CIA, and politicians really are.

I was hoping someone would ask Tenet how his CIA employees had time to make "diversity quilts" when the country was at risk. - Tom

[MJY1288]

I do believe that the Iraq link, and the possibility of it being exposed, is why Timothy McVeigh was so anxious to be put to death. I believe that McVeigh wanted to go down as a rebel and not a traitor.

I also remember reading a story that claimed Hussein al-Husseini was working at Boston Logan airport as a baggage handler on 9/11 and hasn't been seen since. Do you know if there is any truth to this?

[potlatch]

LOL, you are quite welcome. Some of my 'ping-ee's' go to bed early, but you may see a surge in the morning!! This is important news!

[MJY1288]

Wasn't Hussein al-Husseini taken into custody shortly after the OKC bombing and released after a few days, when Bill Klinton decided he had his man in Timothy McVeigh as he blamed right wing talk show host like Rush Limbaugh for insighting the right wing crazies like Tim McVeigh?

[gogipper]

I reluctantly agree with you that there is corruption somewhere.

However, lamentably, the public part of the 9/11 commission doesn't show me an effective 'stir up the crud' effort. By seating a Janet Reno assistant who AUTHORED the memo absoluting severing counter-intelligence and law enforcement as a commissioner, it suggests to me that the cover up is before us. John Ashcrofts declassification of this document should have brought down the house! Now the commission chairman tells us Americans to 'butt out'! They are going to have to produce a lot more to satisfy me that they have gotten to the bottom.

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I haven't heard that at all. Maybe more info will surface on this thread?

Kerry's intervention into the security warning to Logan is pretty much staying under the radar as well. That creep DIRECTLY enabled the 19 hijackers by diluting the actions of the airport security agency, and it's not a scandal. Amazing.

[olde north church]

On News/Activism ^ 04/11/2004 4:14:42 PM EDT #3 of 12 ^ Anyone who believes McVeigh and Nichols did the Oklahoma City Bombing without help from islamic terrorists residing in the area is living in a fantasy land. Their is a very high population of arabs in the area and there is the matter of John Doe #3. There is also the denial of "foul play" in the "crashes" of flight 800 and 990. Maybe they should come forward with the real explanations behind these disasters.
Why do people act so surprised?
Given a choice between politcal correctness and the security of this nation, why do the citizens of this country always wind up on the wrong end?

[justshutupandtakeit]

You could ask the same thing about the WTC1. I think we are seeing some of the reason: thanks to Goreslick we had to have a "Beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof. "Clear and convincing" or "a preponderance of the evidence" is good enough for us in establishing the proof.

[ovrtaxt]

Well, no the crud isn't being stirred within their own circles, but for We The People, (at least We Who Pay Attention) all these disparate threads are coming together into a scary tapestry. The picture is emerging, and the clearer it gets, the less confidence I have in these bureaucrats. Rep and Dem alike.

I should get a bumper sticker: The more I find out about federal security agencies, the better I like my guns!

[MJY1288]

I believe Ashcroft knows a lot, I often wondered why all those FBI "302"? files were witheld from the McVeigh Defense team and why there wasn't more made of them. I truly believe Louis Freeh grew to hate Bill Clinton over this case and the way it was handled by the DOJ and the White House

[olde north church]

Such is the necessity for "an independent militia"

[MJY1288]

I think I have the article on Hussien al-Husseini saved, I'll post it if I have it, be right back!

[ovrtaxt]

Can you give the link to that thread?