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McVeigh Cites Osama Bin Laden in Letter to Fox News-April 27, 2001
Fox News ^ | Friday, April 27, 2001 1:41 a.m. EDT | Fox

Posted on 10/24/2001 10:08:32 PM PDT by Sunshine55

McVeigh Cites Osama Bin Laden in Letter to Fox News

A month after a former NBC News reporter went public with evidence of links between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorist Osama bin Laden, McVeigh himself has cited bin Laden in a letter to the Fox News Channel.

Responding to questions from FNC's Rita Cosby, McVeigh rejected some of the labels that have been applied to him, then tossed in the chilling reference to the notorious Muslim terrorist.

"Most of the insults are meritless and quite often absurd, so I don't pay them much attention," wrote McVeigh. "Hitler? Absurd. (Geraldo Rivera uses this same analogy, so Keating and Ashcroft are in good company!) Coward? This label would make Orwell proud – it is double think at its finest. 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!)"

In the next sentence, McVeigh mentioned convicted World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, in perhaps another indication of a Middle Eastern connection to his own crime.

"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.

Last month former NBC reporter Jayna Davis told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that compelling evidence links McVeigh to a Middle Eastern terrorist cell ultimately controlled by bin Laden.

"What we discovered, an intelligence source at one of the highest levels in the federal government later confirmed, was a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City just a few miles from the Alfred P. Murrah building," Davis said.

Her NBC affiliate had located several witnesses who claimed that an Iraqi national with ties to Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was seen in the company of McVeigh just prior to the bombing, Davis said. The Iraqi was also seen driving away from the bomb scene in a car identified by the FBI as a possible getaway vehicle.

"We have 24 sworn witness affidavits that tie seven to eight Arab men to various stages of the bombing plot from the beginning all the way to the day in which the plot was executed," the former NBC reporter told O'Reilly.

"It really is a foreign conspiracy masterminded and funded by Osama bin Laden, according to my intelligence sources," she asserted.

Davis is not alone in that belief.

In his 1999 book on the Oklahoma City tragedy, "Others Unknown," McVeigh's lawyer Stephen Jones made similar claims, citing a meeting in the early 1990s between World Trade Center bomber Yousef and McVeigh's partner, Terry Nichols, in the Philippines, which he called a "hotbed of fundamentalist Muslim activity."

Jones said his research shows that bin Laden was in the Philippines at the same time as Yousef and Nichols.

Both Jones and Davis said federal investigators were uninterested in exploring any possible Middle Eastern connection to the crime.

In his letter to Cosby, McVeigh said he decided to bomb Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building only after rejecting the idea of assassinating former attorney general Janet Reno and others associated with the federal government's 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas.


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1 posted on 10/24/2001 10:08:32 PM PDT by Sunshine55
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To: Sunshine55
Her NBC affiliate had located several witnesses who claimed that an Iraqi national with ties to Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was seen in the company of McVeigh just prior to the bombing, Davis said.

We all thought the theory of the Iraqi in the brown pick-up truck was buried along with McVeigh. But he keeps coming back to life. How utterly inconvenient . . . </sarcasm>

2 posted on 10/24/2001 10:26:15 PM PDT by Rubber Duckie
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To: Sunshine55
Anybody remember "John Doe #2"?


3 posted on 10/24/2001 10:30:50 PM PDT by Nick Danger
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To: Nick Danger
OMG! Is that the drawing? I was trying to compare the John Doe #2 drawing of the front view to the terrorists who died on all the planes to see if any of them looked like that drawing.

That is just chilling. Do you think it is Atta? It certainly looks like it.

4 posted on 10/24/2001 10:42:03 PM PDT by BlueHorseShoe
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To: Nick Danger
I don't see a resemblence. Atta has a projecting chin and an Arab nose, the composit doesn't.
5 posted on 10/24/2001 10:42:17 PM PDT by TheHound
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To: TheHound
Look at the ears. They say ears are almost like fingerprints.
6 posted on 10/24/2001 10:45:45 PM PDT by BlueHorseShoe
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To: Nick Danger
:o BUMP
7 posted on 10/24/2001 10:45:45 PM PDT by World'sGoneInsane
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To: Nick Danger
Holy Moly! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP

BUMP AGAIN!

That's Fricking unreal!

8 posted on 10/24/2001 10:50:53 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: bonesmccoy
bump
9 posted on 10/24/2001 10:54:26 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: Nick Danger
RE: side by side photos --- the only link I find plausible. There is a frontal face drawing of JDoe2, do you have it?
10 posted on 10/24/2001 10:55:48 PM PDT by onyx
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To: Clovis_Skeptic
Here is another one for you!
12 posted on 10/24/2001 11:01:03 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: Robert Lomax
Bump for Oklahoma Arab terrorist identification and extermination.
13 posted on 10/24/2001 11:04:36 PM PDT by pushforbush
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To: Sunshine55
This story is being supressed because it would deprive the slimy left-wing liberal press of their icon of the angry white racist Christian male hatemonger. In other words, the truth must take a back seat to the propagation of their cherished ideology. Besides, Bin Laden is a person of "color", and we all know they can do no wrong.
14 posted on 10/24/2001 11:05:52 PM PDT by Imperial Warrior
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To: onyx

John Doe #2
15 posted on 10/24/2001 11:07:59 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Nick Danger
That sketch is strikingly similar to the photo of Atta. I guess my question is was Mohammed Atta in the U.S. at or near the time of the OKC bombing?
16 posted on 10/24/2001 11:08:36 PM PDT by WRhine
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To: giotto
OK here's the side-by-side

Chilling huh? yuck!

17 posted on 10/24/2001 11:10:25 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: onyx
Here's another one:

I don't think the lips are the same as Atta's.

18 posted on 10/24/2001 11:11:15 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Sunshine55
Funny!
19 posted on 10/24/2001 11:14:08 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: giotto
Perhaps it isn't Atta, but it's sure somebody, as opposed to what the FBI has been telling us for years, which is there was no John Doe #2...

the infowarrior

20 posted on 10/24/2001 11:15:02 PM PDT by infowarrior
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