Posted on 06/30/2005 11:24:54 AM PDT by CHARLITE
After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. – who has publicly vowed to address unanswered questions about the bombing – went with a staff aid to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network, a private, counter-terrorist research and investigation group.
In his quizzing of Nichols, the congressman relied heavily on the investigative work of journalist Jayna Davis and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," published by WND Books.
Davis asserts Nichols and Timothy McVeigh were not the lone conspirators but were part of a greater scheme involving Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Rohrabacher has said he is "deeply disturbed" that the FBI did not follow up on affidavits Davis turned over to the bureau from 22 witnesses supporting evidence that Iraqi intelligence agents infiltrated the United States to recruit and assist McVeigh and Nichols.
Davis spoke with Rohrabacher after his visit with Nichols and gave a tape of her conversation to Northeast Intelligence Network Director Douglas Hagmann.
The congressman told Davis: "Yours is the only game in town that has any evidence."
Nichols acknowledged the existence of John Doe No. 2 – the alleged third terrorist – but stopped short of identifying him, claiming he "did not want to speculate."
However, according to Rohrabacher, Nichols said "he thought other people [beyond Nichols and Timothy McVeigh] were involved" in the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Timothy McVeigh on a number of occasions, had talked about Middle Easterners," Rohrabacher told Davis. "Terry didn't say anything that would dispel the theory, the central theory of your research, which is these people [witnesses featured in "The Third Terrorist"] actually saw Tim McVeigh and he was with Arabs, and these are the people that you tracked down."
Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said Nichols did not say anything that would undercut Davis' finding of a definitive Middle Eastern connection to the bombing.
The congressman said Nichols "didn't do anything that would in any way ... counter the witnesses that you have dug up and put on the record."
The witnesses provided sworn affidavits to Davis and Chicago-based attorney David Schippers, who served as chief investigative counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment trial of former President Clinton.
Schippers also prosecuted a number of high-profile organized crime figures under U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
After conducting lengthy videotaped interviews with more than a dozen of Davis' confidential witnesses in May, Schippers stated: "Given the credibility of these witnesses, I could get an indictment with just one day of testimony before a grand jury."
Former CIA director James Woolsey also has found the witness statements accumulated by Davis to be credible, including many who attested to observing Middle Eastern nationals in the company of McVeigh and at the Murrah building at the time of the bombing.
Rohrabacher told Davis: "Your evidence remains the heaviest"
Despite the information he received from Nichols, the congressman told Davis he still was "in no hurry" to convene congressional hearings, but said he wanted to see more of her evidence.
As WND reported, on the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, in April, Rohrabacher asked in a House-floor speech why the FBI ignored strong evidence of a Middle East connection to the attack.
Rohrabacher said at the time that if the FBI does not provide satisfactory answers to his questions, he will call for congressional hearings.
Two years ago, on the eve of U.S. action in Iraq, Davis' reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing was vindicated when the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 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.
Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29290
"An Iraqi connection to Okla?
Interesting."
Apalling non-coverage.
Thanks for the post Char...trying to keep this in the forefront is important. I'm remembering Jim Quinn at warroom.com interviewing Jayna a number of times. Excellent interviews. Alas, our gubbmint will sit on this for 50 years. It may come out after I'm dead and long gone.
FMCDH(BITS)
That's because the FBI is full of professional investigators who know that Nichols would say that he could prove that OBL started the Chicago Fire if it would keep his raggedy ass alive for a few more months. Now a credulous congresscritter and WND has given him the platform that he needs, and the FBI will waste taxpayer dollars running down his BS story.
Al Qaeda decided long ago that its primary target in America would be the WTC towers. The 1993 bombing obviously was a direct attempt to bring down the towers, but it did not work. The OKC bombing was a test run to see if a truck bomb could be built big enough to bring down the WTC towers. It did not work either. Hence no more truck bombs in the U.S. following OKC. TWA 800 was a test to see whether enough explosive power could be produced by blowing up a jumbo jet to bring down the WTC towers. It worked. The Egypt Air crash may also have been a test to see if a suicide pilot would really go through with crashing a plane, and whether the passengers could or would prevent it. That worked too. Voila.....9/11. Osama bin Laden was hired as the "hit man" by Saddam Hussein, because of Saddam's intense desire for revenge against America after the first Gulf War.
She had to send a fax. She'll be here momentarily.
Hi Freepers, I'm here. Faxing the article to Washington, DC at Schippers' request. Will be with you in five to ten minutes.
Peach- I read Jayna's book b/c I saw you talking about it. An eye opener for sure!
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. House of Representatives
2338 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2415 101 Main Street, Suite 380
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Phone: (714) 960-6483
Jayna- great book! Have any others on the way?
.......but Clinton slyly left the "hard work" for his successor, and now, none of the Clinton Kool Aid drinkers want to remember how incompetent and negligent he was in confronting this massive evil and major threat to our country.
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Yes, it is true. But there was nothing 'sly' about Billy. He was a deliberate avoider of anything that might put pressure on HIS POLITICAL POSITION regardless of how bad it was for the country. Tragically, this mentality is becoming a mainstay attitude in Washington TODAY with personal politics far more important than doing the RIGHT THINGS for America, the job these bozos were sent there to do. Equally tragic is the mind-dead status of a big percentage of America that pays no attention to what Washington is DOING TO THEM.
I made the call to his office in DC and demanded that he hold hearing to expose the Iraqi connection to OKC before this happens again!
Can you tell us the latest about al-Hussani?
Who can we call besides Rohrabacher to put on the heat?
I'm so glad you read it!
I donated a copy to our local library so it would get a wider readership and it's disappeared. It's not even on the list of books the library has anymore.
I just discovered this yesterday and am so ticked.
BUMP!
Bill Clinton used OKC to created the vast right wing conspiracy and save his presidency. The Kool-Aid drinkers dug in their heels, and Clinton could get away with anything because they had to beat the dreaded right wing. Until 1998, he was trying to convince Americans that our greatest threat was domestic terror. We saw the results of his brilliance --- 9-11.
There was another Congressman who was interested some time back, but I can't remember who. I'm going to look through the book to see if a name jumps out at me.
hi Freepers,
Forgive my delay in getting to the thread. I am not a whiz at this. Hoping to read your questions and start posting answers in the next few minutes
Istook?
you are Jayna?
Thanks for all your work.
were it not for you, and this site, I would never have known anything at all about the Islamic connection to the OKC bombing.
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