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.
She (and Clinton) "missed" it because they saw an opportunity to blame right wing talk show hosts and gun owners. It worked, too. I wish there could be some punishment for these people.
That and busy patting herself on the back for killing babies in Waco.
I just read her book. I just have no idea, with the amount of "evidence" she seems to put forth, how this conclusion continues to go unchallenged.
Total coincidence. ....a freak occurrence. Everyone knows there was no Islamist connection to OKC, and that evil white militia-types were solely responsible for that terrorist act.
here we go.
Yeah and the Waco crowd was a lot more dangerous than the prisoners in Abu Ghraib or Guantamano./sarcasm
Holy crap!
Yikes, the truth is starting to get reported. Another sign some would say. Hopefully the truth will turn out to be similar to my perceptions.
Both believe in a higher authority that compels them to murder innocent women and children for no constructive reason.
I listened to her talk for about an hour while driving the no man's land between Montgomery and Mobile last week on USA Radio (I think). What she talked about in that time span left me with little doubt that John Doe 2 is out there running around and the Feds know who he is - Hussein al somethin' Hussein. Apparently this cat has some serious terror ties, and (don't quote me on this) I believe she said something about a Saddam Hussein tie.
Probably just a little off base. Watch out for the pick-off throw.
The average gun enthusiast understands that the 2nd Amendment is no different than any other part of the Constitution; subject to the same changing political, cultural, and technological influences.
Now folks don't be too hard on Klintoon and NotsoBright. If they would have gone off after McVeigh's known contacts, they'd have had no excuse for not picking up Bin Laden. Remember, Klintoon says there was no reason to pick up Laden.
Embassy bombings, the Cole, the Somalia fiasco, yeah Klintoon says there was no reason.
Since Klinton and Notso have repeatedly confirmed that they had 'no REASON', I'm inclined to side with them.
< /sarcasm >
Neither had a lick of sense. Neither saw any benefit to bringing in McVeigh and Nichol's Al Qaeda connections. Neither of those people get it to this day.
Well I do have reason, and I think both Klintoon and Notso should be sitting in a dark, dank dirt hole somewhere, for the rest of their natural days.
Judgement day is coming. Thank heaven there is a God.
What would "challenge" the evidence?
I have not read the book but Richard Clarke's book is quoted by a few columnists thus, "Ramzi Yousef and [Terry] Nichols had been in the city of Cebu on the same days.... Could the al Qaeda explosives expert have been introduced to the angry American?... We do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned. We also know that Nichols continued to call Cebu long after his wife returned to the United States."
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/mylroie200404050847.asp
Though Clarke is hardly reliable I nevertheless wonder why he's straying from covering for Clinton. Why would he include something in his book that raises questions about the the lone "ditto-head" bombers, McVeigh and Nichols?
One mainstream source says, "Clarke says he could never disprove a conspiracy theory linking Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda operatives who helped plan the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Terry Nichols, one of the organizers of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-28-clarke-book_x.htm
I say again. Patriots endured years of abuse, ridicule, and threats before we got serious investigations of Ruby Ridge and Waco.
She was on a similar compensation plan as Scott Ritter and Hans Blix.
And so why was this verim not exterminated? Did the Clinton Admin Lefties think he/it could be rehabilitated? LOL!
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