Iraqis Linked to Oklahoma Atrocity

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/1678779 ^

[Free ThinkerNY]

Old article, but interesting.

[chiller]

The info coming out of Iraq lately should get everyone looking at OK City. Jeez...how obvious is it?

...another Clinton failure, btw.

[OldEagle]

"Davis thinks he may have done so out of loyalty to his family, not wishing to go down in history as a traitor to his country."

I have been told that McVeigh never said otherwise in order to protect his sister who was threatened as an accomplice.

[spodefly]

Some day this story may finally get legs.

[savedbygrace]

At the OKC Memorial Service, Clinton made headlines by asserting that he would never again denigrate bureaucrats. Not long after that, he was blaming the FBI files fiasco on "a bureaucratic snafu."

[cardinal4]

another Clinton failure, btw.

Not a failure, as far as Clinton was concerned, it allowed him blame the Right and Right wing radio...

[Semper Paratus]

Iraq is not in the FBI playbook.

[thucydides]

Clinton, aiming for a Nobel Prize for "peace" - making in the Middle East, didn't want anything to disturb the waters. Once some US participants were found, the investigation was dropped. Clinton also used OKC to beat up on Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts who opposed his administration, insinuating that they were spreading hate that led to such acts. Revelation of a Middle East provenance for the event would have vitiated this approach. Once again, Clinton stands revealed.

[WhiteGuy]

But she has evidence that up to 12,000 Iraqis were allowed into America after the Gulf war. Some of these, she suspects, are using their status as refugees for cover. "They are here," she said. "And they are highly trained and motivated."

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Who was responsible for this?

[okie01]

"...another Clinton failure, btw."

Yes, but "failure" is a relative term. And, to the Clintons, the Murrah bombing was a tremendous political windfall. The weak President, made "irrelevant" by the GOP's Congressional sweep in 1994, was suddenly made "relevant" again.

And, at the same time, Clinton was able to ascribe the blame for the bombing to "right-wing extremists". If there was, indeed, an Iraq connection, he had zero interest in finding it...

[templar]

Wonder why the Bush administration wants to keep the 'Mcveigh and Nichols did it by themselves' explanation as being the truth? there were an awful lot fo suspicious things surrounding this event, IMO, including that Soldier of Fortune picture.

[Loyalist]

So many what-ifs...

What if McVeigh's lawyer had found a way to convince the courts to spin out that 30-day delay in his execution for a few months longer, past September 11?

If something had turned up in those FBI documents to indicate Iraqi involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing, once that information become public knowledge, what affect might it have had on current events?

What if McVeigh had lived past September 11 and had decided to tell his story about Iraqi involvement in the bombing?

[DannyTN]

"Wonder why the Bush administration wants to keep the 'Mcveigh and Nichols did it by themselves' explanation as being the truth? "

If Bush finds a smoking gun in Iraq, it will probably come out. But otherwise, you have to have a really strong case to go back and accuse the former president of covering the stuff up. Othewise, it will be seen as partisan politics and will serve to limit the effectiveness of the Bush Administration. Even if you can make the case that Clinton was a traitor, it's not going to stick on the whole Democratic party. Clinton's a has been. There are more important fish to fry.

[Dan from Michigan]

Klintler would not have won a 2nd term if it wasn't for OKC.

[backhoe]

Some older links:

OKC Bombing Links

[clintonh8r]

Yes, I think it was Carville who, upon hearing of the bombing, said another four years were guaranteed. I'll never forget Boner Bill's teary-eyed, lip-biting, head shaking performance at the memorial ceremony. I wanted to vomit. I hate that bastard.

[bankwalker]

Klintler would not have won a 2nd term if it wasn't for OKC.

I must agree. FWIW on the day of OKC, Klinton was in the middle of a nationwide political crisis. Donna Shalala had said that we didn't send our best and brightest to Viet Nam. The radio waves were in an uproar over it. Then OKC happened, and it was never mentioned again. Klinton blamed the right, especially talk radio and the militias. We were treated to round the clock coverage of the evil militias for several weeks. Klinton's presidency was an abysmal failure up until that point. OKC turned everything around for him He used it like a pro. What a scumbag, but a very lucky and talented scumbag.

[Rainbow Rising]

The weak President, made "irrelevant" by the GOP's Congressional sweep in 1994, was suddenly made "relevant" again.

I distinctly recall Sam Donaldson on his Sunday morning show speculating about whether or not Newt Gingrich's rhetoric about cutting down and eliminating the size of government could have influenced McVeigh's hatred of government. This bombing gave liberals a nice big stick to beat conservatives with: "the angry white male who hates government." The stick would not have been quite so big if it suddenly turned out that Iraqis had been involved.

[ladyinred]

This news has been out there for a very long time. The mainstream media has refused to report it however. I do hope all of this is uncovered now, it will be yet another slap in the face to the so called Peaceniks who saw no reason to attack Iraq. I am sure our government knows all of this.

[Nita Nupress]

Iraqis Linked to Oklahoma Atrocity

This is London
By James Langton in New York, for the Evening Standard

The FBI is under pressure from the highest political levels in Washington to investigate suspected links between Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing.

I oughta tan your hide for getting me all excited needlessly like that. I thought a UK reporter had unearthed some OKC documents over in Baghdad.

That'll teach me to look at dates before reading. :-)