AP: FBI Illegally Seized Ramzi Yousef Documents From OKC Reporter's Mail

Associated Press ^ | 3/13/2003 | Associated Press

[JohnBerger]

The FBI illegally seized a package sent between two Associated Press reporters working on an investigative series about the Oklahoma City bombing. The package contained documents related to Ramzi Yousef's al Qaeda cell in Manila, according to the Associated Press.

The package contained a laboratory report on items seized from a Manila apartment where Yousef and his conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, plotted a September 11-style attack on America. The package was part of reporter John Solomon's investigative series on possible warnings given to the U.S. about a terrorist attack sponsored by Islamic militants just prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI told AP the package "contained sensitive information that should not be made public."

According to research published on this site and elsewhere, and extensive courtroom documentation, Terry Nichols traveled to the Cebu, the Philippines, in November 1994, on a 60-day visa that expired on Jan. 21, 1995, the exact date Yousef was planning to launch Project Bojinka, a series of attacks on U.S. bound aircraft. According to "The New Jackals" by Simon Reeve and other verified information revealed during various criminal trials, Ramzi Yousef made at least one and possibly several trips to Cebu during Nichols' visit.

One phase of Bojinka involved the simultaneous detonation of a series of bombs over the Pacific, while a second phase would have had suicide pilot(s) crash commercial aircraft into U.S. landmark(s) such as the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. The plot was foiled after an accidental fire exposed the conspiracy.

[JohnBerger]

Abstract above is from http://www.whoisjohndoe2.com

According to AP, the report seized included "included copies and photos of dozens of pieces of evidence gathered in the terrorism cases of Abdul Hakim Murad and Ramzi Yousef, including batteries, explosive devices, bomb fragments, a copy of a Time magazine, cell phones, and phone books."

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

..."contained sensitive information that should not be made public." ...

Yeah, there's something terribly wrong about the public knowing the truth. At least in the minds of beauracrats.

[savedbygrace]

"I told you to get a TIMER! Not Time! No virgins for you."

[Guillermo]

No, we all know that the culprits of the OKC bombing were Rush Limbaugh and White Males who wear camouflage and own guns.

[NeoCaveman]

Yeah, there's something terribly wrong about the public knowing the truth.

When the truth connects Kuwaiti national and Iraqi agent Ramzi Yousef to OKlahoma City, and project Bojinka (which we saw executed on 9/11) apparently that is too much truth to handle. Why? I do not know.

[dennisw]

That was CLINTON'S FBI that did this dirty deed!

[NeoCaveman]

Ping!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

And what or who has changed within the FBI?

[hobbes1]

Yup. Saw this yesterday. FBI dong a little CYA.

My understanding is that Justice also Just capitulated in the Flight 800 propersecution of the reporter.

[mict42]

Why can't the truth get the light of day? This is serious stuff.

[MizSterious]

Hmmmmm....

[VOA]

Well McVey and Nichols may have been the whole operation.
But since McVey's attorney (Stephen Jones?) and Federal Court Judge Maitsch (sp?) thought
they must have had help...
well, I won't be suprised if we find out there was more than just McVey and Nichols
in the creation of the OKC bombing tragedy...

OH, Go OU Sooner Basketballers in the Big 12 tourney (and I give "fall-back" support to the
OSU Cowboys).

[mabelkitty]

Yes, it was.

Robert Mueller, good buddy to Barbara Boxer, is protectig some FBI people that should be expunged from the program.

I wonder if this information would damage the Clinton (and HIllayr) administration further, hence their intervention.

The AP needs to sue.

[Sacajaweau]

A copy is in Hillary's office behind the third file cabinet from the left as you enter.

Don't tell me she doesn't keep blackmail stuff on her husband!!

[SierraWasp]

Pinging Honway & OKCsubmariner!!!

Just yesterday I noted to Grampa Dave that they left OKC out of that beautiful timeline/scenario of a look back at World War III!!!

[NeoCaveman]

If the truth were out, then the Iraq war would be more than justified but REQUIRED, why not get on with the truth.

[Sacajaweau]

McVeigh was from Buffalo. Imagine that. The same place where we found a cell.

[ConservativeMan55]

This article should interest you.

[hobbes1]

There is another dynamic, that needs to be understood here.

Take a look back at history. Specifically The Pentagon Papers.

The Nixon Administration, went to EMBARASSING legnths to keep the from being printed, including the intrusion to Ellsbergs Psychiatrist.

How is this Important/Instructive....

Because the Rand Corporation study, was a product of the JOHNSON administration, but Nixon went to the mat to protect the Office Of the Presidency itself, regardless of the right/or wrong of who was in it.

This is further evidenced by Nixon going to DC for a PhotoOp with JFK, after he stole the election, to show support after Kennedy botched the Bay of Pigs.

GWB and this administration, is not protecting Clinton, he is protecting the Office. this needs to be understood, because he takes a lot of flack for not chasing Satans spawn down like the worm that he is...

[RaceBannon]

suddenly bump