Hard for me to believe that McVeigh was involved with Islamic terrorists after he was a tank gunner in the Gulf War and killed dozens of Islamo types.
Timothy McVeigh said he killed enemy soldiers there but grew to question whether he was doing the right thing. "I thought ... what right did I have to come over to this person's country and kill him? How did he ever transgress against me?"
IIRC, Nichols made numerous trips to the PIs, to areas where Al Queda is known to have "branches."
Mark