Posted on 04/02/2006 10:29:53 PM PDT by Coleus
WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is calling for a congressional investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing because of evidence of a foreign connection and a conspiracy broader than Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. In a memo written to Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rohrabacher said he has spent 12 months personally investigating the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 and concluded "there is ample evidence to justify an investigative hearing into this historic crime." The focus of the probe, he suggests, should be "Was there a foreign connection to the Oklahoma City bombing?"
"The official position today, defended by the FBI and Justice Department, is that the OKC bombing, which left 168 persons dead, was planned and executed solely by two disgruntled veterans, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, with the limited involvement of Michael Fortier," writes Rohrabacher. "After my inquiry I have concluded that others were involved and that information about the bombing is being kept from the public and from the Congress. The jurisdiction of my Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations extends only to the possible international and foreign involvement in the crime. Even within that framework there is ample evidence to justify an investigative hearing."
Rohrabacher worked closely in his personal investigation with Jayna Davis, author of the WND Book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing." The congressman said there are two major targets of inquiry which indicate a foreign connection to the OKC bombing:
"First, Terry Nichols and, to some degree, Timothy McVeigh appear to have had contact with Arab, Muslim, or Middle Eastern terrorist elements prior to and during the implementation of the bomb plot," he wrote. "Second, just as significant, there is evidence of a personal relationship between Timothy McVeigh and Andreas Carl Strassmeier, a German national who was promoting violent insurrection to white supremacists at their nearby stronghold called Elohim City."
Rohrabacher concludes in his memo to Hyde: "(I)t is highly likely that the Arab connection and or the Strassmeier connection played a significant role in the planning and execution of the murderous bombing of the OKC federal building. In both possible scenarios, the official investigation fell short and further investigation has been discouraged ever since."
He suggested a one-day or two-day hearing and suggested subpoenas be issued to former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno. "The bombing of the OKC federal building was the greatest slaughter of innocent Americans until 9/11," Rohrabacher writes. "It is possible there was an al-Qaida connection. It is possible there was a Strassmeier connection. There is ample reason to disbelieve the official version of this horrific crime. It is up to us to begin setting the record straight."
Previous stories:
Docs: Secret Service took thousands of phone records
'Compelling' evidence of another terrorist
Agent: Feds told of threats to blow buildings
Oklahoma City FBI surrenders documents to court
Congressman to FBI: Turn over documents
FBI must turn over investigation docs
Ex-Green Beret involved in attack?
FBI has secret docs it's reluctant to give up
Withheld evidence to sink case against Nichols?
Declassified FBI memo reveals twists in probe
Reporter's Oklahoma City coverage vindicated
Was FBI early arrival in Oklahoma City?
Another suicide or another cover-up?
Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.
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Ugh, I'm a couple days late on this one!
Somebody got away with murder.
Bump!
Thanks for the ping.
Great news!
Thanks for posting this.
This call for a th orough investigation will get nowhere. There are too many people in Washington on both sides of the aisle and within the DOJ who will go to the ends of the earth to make this sleeping dog lie...
John Doe #2 ALERT!
Glad to see you thought sooooooo deeply before you posted this response. Personally, I would love to know why the Clintoon Admin. fought so hard to cover these facts up. (you should too)
During the 9/11 Commission Lehman asked Louis Freeh about the theories of a middle eastern connection contained in "The Third Terrorists". Freeh answered that he had never heard of it. There were no follow up questions.
That's one of the more ridiculous posts I've seen of Free Republic lately.
Yes. John Doe Number 2. The striking thing about that sketch and the one of McVey was how remarkably true to life each was, a vastly better quality than most such sketches. The FBI never did anything effective to run down John Doe Number 2.
That whole "Setting a new tone in Washington" thingy has really worked well hasn't it?
Perhaps the investigative committee could get to view some of the approximately 27 area security tapes that, curiously, have been held by the FBI, but never released.
Wonder what those tapes DO show that would cause them to be impounded and held all these years?
Isn't this Oklahoma's issue? California ought stay the hell out of it.
It stops being a state issue when (1) America is attacked (2) the Fed conveniently come up the the standard template for a terrorist attach " One white guy, working alone" . or in this case two white guys, working alone." (3) we are at war, not having a "issue".
The New American was all over the story as well. Check the back issues.
I have a sick, sinking feeling that a lot of Bush's apparent affection for Clinton traces back to what went on at the Mena, Ark. airport toward the end of the 1980's. Back then the WSJ ran some editorials that pointed out an apparent connection between CIA flights going in and out of that airport and cocaine deliveries that were apparently being made to it from central America. It's at least possible that Bush I struck a deal with the Devil (Clinton) to allow the Mena airport to be used for essential secret CIA operations in exchange for looking the other way when cocaine came in on the return flights. That would nicely explain the myriad efforts Bush III has made to cover up for the Clintons' crimes.
From the way the perverse Bush/Clinton relationship has developed, I suspect that if Bush has real, sollid evidence against Clinton, the evidence will quickly disappear.
My recollection of the OKC RM Bldg is the bldg hosted a DEA office managing a major operation vs Mexican dope rings. McV & Nickles were duped into the perp roll. DEA was nuetralized.
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