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Not on the McVeigh angle, but a lot more on Padilla's possible al Qaeda connections -- which then potentially lead to Nichols back at the site (I won't try to summarize here; it's pretty long).

Also, here's a little something I didn't post on whoisjohndoe2 because it's a little too weird and may well be an actual coincidence:

The bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi on June 14 took place just three days after the State Department announced that they had picked up "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla's trail at the very same consulate in March, when he applied for a replacement passport.

Furthermore, the bomb used on the consulate was a fertilizer bomb of the same type used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

I am a bit surprised no one in the major media has made the Karachi-Padilla connection at any rate. The bomb type is quite likely to be a coincidence (the fertilizer bomb is an oldie but goodie). The target choice, however, may not be.