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Interesting stuff - McVeigh akin to Oswald? -- Yaneverknow, it may be so -- BUT The real question becomes - when the source is the government, what do you believe and what dont you believe - well, my answer would be to go to the info thats available outside government sources If you do this, with McVeigh - the story makes sense. By that I mean (and I hate to have to explain myself this carefully, but I have noticed that some of the more self-righteous posters in this forum love to twist people's words) that while there is no justifying WHAT McVeigh did, that there is a logical thread that can be followed as to how that individual came to do what he did. Now, the end result is not palatable - because what you end up with is that the monster could be the guy next door, and thats TERRIFYING. Such a plausible (tho ideologically flawed) sequence of events could never quite be presented in the case of Oswald Looking at it another way - in the end what was so terrifying about Oklahoma City and McVeigh anyway? Was it a few dead federal agents? Was it the mangled facade of a building? NO! It was the realization that the guy that did it could have been your next door neighbor. It's oh so much better when the enemy isnt one of your own - when he can be identified by ethnic or cultural differences. If the government can put together a story whereby McVeigh becomes an agent of those evil Ayrab - then they have accomplished some work towards the goal of easing the pain and terror of the masses (and ever closer to gaining their unquestioning trust and loyalty)

"...when the source is the government, what do you believe and what dont you believe..."

Good question. Apparently, the government is currently in a first class swivet about what it should tell the American public (and the world) and what it should keep secret. But more ominous, is the story that quietly leaked on the Imus radio program on the morning of 25 October 2001. To wit:

In an on-air conversation with Don Imus, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell spoke on the negative psychological and political impacts on U.S. citizens of learning that U.S. government covert operatives would, by necessity, need to participate in terrorist activities - meaning blowing things up and killing people on U.S. soil - in order to "obtain their bonafides" with terrorist organizations. That's not the kind of stuff some network reporter thinks up on her own. Obviously somebody who thinks about this stuff for a living had given her the tidbit of administration thinking on deep deep background. Shades of OKC.