Posted on 05/27/2004 6:54:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
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 didn't think Nichols would ever discuss his relationship with Yousef, who devised a plot known as Operation Bojinka, a kamikaze airliner hijacking plan that became the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks.
"Sources close to the defense have told me, and this comes from recorded conversations with his wife, Lana Padilla, that Terry Nichols is going to remain clammed up for the rest of his natural days on earth," Davis told Batchelor.
"He wants to protect his son Joshua from any retaliation," she added. Filipino police informant, Edwin Angeles, who first detailed meetings between Yousef and Nichols, was assassinated in 1998.
Yousef's partner in the Bojinka plot, Abdul Hakim Murad, was apprehended by Filipino police in 1994 and taken to New York to stand trial. On the morning of the OKC bombing, Murad summoned his jailers to tell them he and Yousef were connected to the crime. Later that day Murad gave the FBI a written confession.
Just months before his own June 2001 execution for the crime, Timothy McVeigh referred to both Yousef and Osama bin Laden in a letter to Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby.
"Collateral Damage? As an American news junkie; a military man; and a Gulf War veteran, where do they think I learned that? (It sure as hell wasn't Osama Bin Laden!)," he wrote in April 2001.
In the next sentence, McVeigh mentioned Yousef.
"For all else, I would refer you to my enclosed paper 'Hypocrisy,' and to Ramzi Yousef's statement to the court just prior to his sentencing. I filter all labels and insults thusly."
In the Jan. 8, 1998, court statement to which McVeigh referred, Yousef proclaimed, "Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government," before being sentenced to 240 years in jail.
Bayourod obviously took some paranoid banned posters rantings and applied it generally to 2nd amendment supporters..Generalizing is not ever a wise argument.
You realized that you just generalized, don't you? (c8
good tear-down.
Generalizing is many times an unfair/inaccurate/deceptive way to present an argument?
Sorry, I don't buy that. We have enough people floating around the country in witness protection and despite the TV and movie scenarios it's a pretty effective tool. His son is a good excuse, but if he had something to say he'd say it. Why? What he knows his family should know. He married a Filipina from Cebu. She would be aware of whom he did and didn't meet with.When he goes to needleland the bad guys will do his family. Federal protection would be the only way if he had something to tell.
Chill, I was jest funnin' ya!
I know..but I had to redeem myself! LOL
to generalize
is oft unwise
Much better!
Anyone know what ever happened to OKCsubmariner? He had a good archive of info on the bombing.
Thanks for the ping, Meek.
Great article!
Still waiting for this information to become widely understood, but I'm not holding my breath.
I wish Bill O'Reilly would devote time to the OKC/WTC and Iraq/al Qaeda connections instead of some of the nonsense he covers.
Would you believe he just learned about the Salman Pak training camp THIS WEEK? He did a Talking Points Memo about it as if it was news.
You, sir, are an insufferable a$$.
This story obviously didn't jive with X42's scenario of RIGHT WING & RUSH LIMBAUGH fanatics being responsible for the OK City Bombing.
My pleasure. Thanks. :^)Yes, I saw that part of his show mentioning Salman Pak too.
Your gun-grabbing buddy is at it again over here.
RKBA = Right to Keep and Bear Arms
the one civil right the free exercise of which purchases and protects all the others.
doggerel rhyme helps. just ask johnnie cochran :)
Amazing. O'Reilly's popularity escapes me. He makes such a big deal out of his 'no spin' non partisan approach that he's just mushy Jello.
Rush brought it up like 2 years ago, right?
That's an interesting turn of logic. Has it ever occurred to you that had 'gun enthusiasts' known about the OKC plot beforehand, that Nichols, McVeigh, Al Husseini and whoever else was involved would never have been alive to carry it out.
You're a real skidmark in the underwear of life.
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