Posted on 02/18/2002 5:30:48 PM PST by RaceBannon
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:26:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ever since the country was savagely attacked on Sept. 11, the FBI has relentlessly investigated flight schools, airports, universities, mosques, Middle Eastern charities and Muslim communities, looking for connections to al-Qaida or other jihadist groups.
The only stone, it seems, the bureau hasn't been willing to turn over is its own investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing. Presumably, that's because the 1995 terrorist attack was the exclusive work of homegrown extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Or was it?
(Excerpt) Read more at indystar.com ...
Not sure we'll ever know the full truth.
Terry Nichols knows the truth... It's just a matter of beating it out of him.
Most people have a lot longer wait.
Funny - Oklahoma Jones with his millions spent in defending McVeigh couldn't find ANYTHING either ...
Anybody here, by chance, read Tim's book?
Here's what Oklahoma Jones threw up against the wall - HOPING it would stick:Excerpted from:IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH,
Petitioner-Defendant,
OVERVIEW
The McVeigh defense, based upon the material provided to it, suggests the following hypothesis:A foreign power, probably Iraq, but not excluding the possibility of another foreign state, planned a terrorist attack(s) in the United States and that one of those targets was the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. The Murrah Building was chosen either because of lack of security (i.e. it was a "soft target"), or because of available resources such as Iraqi POW's who had been admitted into the United States were located in Oklahoma City, or possibly because the location of the building was important to American neo-Nazis such as those individuals who supported Richard Snell who was executed in Arkansas on April 19, 1995.
... snip ...
The plan was arranged for a Middle Eastern bombing engineer to engineer the bomb in such a way that it could be carefully transported and successfully detonated. There is no reported incident of neo-Nazis or extreme right-wing militants in this country exploding any bomb of any significant size let alone one to bring down a nine (9) story federal building and kill 168 persons. In fact, not even members of the left-wing militant groups such as the Weatherman were ever able to accomplish anything of this magnitude.
This terrorist attack was "contracted out" to persons whose organization and ideology was friendly to policies of the foreign power and included dislike and hatred of the United States government itself, and possibly included was a desire for revenge against the United States, with possible anti-black and anti-semitic overtones. Because Iraq had tried a similar approach in 1990, but had been thwarted by Syrian intelligence information given to the United States, this time the information was passed through an Iraqi intelligence base in the Philippines.
Operating out of the Philippines as a base, the state-sponspored [sic] terrorists, with the Murrah Building already chosen ...
The only hard evidence in these cases leads to some fairly pedestrian sources (OKC: McVeigh and Nichols, TWA800: a failed forward cargo bay door, et cetra) ...
That is a good question, which will probably never be answered.
I used to pass over articles like this, but anymore, anything is possible.
Maybe he was assured that he would be spirited away into a witness protection program. Maybe he was told the sting operation got screwed up, just wait, it will get "fixed" up somehow. Perhaps. Maybe they threatened his relatives-his sister actually- with physical harm and a death sentence fedlaw prosecution the same as he was getting assured of constantly if he didn't take the fall. Perhaps. Maybe he was drugged silly stupid after the arrest and had many days straight of the same thing broadcast into his ears along with the classic "no sleep" routine and no clocks and a constant light.. perhaps.
Only reality so far is that there is definetly a connection with middle easterners, and surprise, they-the feds- certainly are in no hurry to seem to want to find out. It's been years now, case closed according to them. Uh huh.
That's the real suspicious part, and what constitutes the "abuse by government" that needs investigating and exposing. To me, this case would be like if they busted a street dealer and started bragging about capturing the entire medellin cartel. It don't compute, never has.
On the other hand, MAYBE it's JUST as he explained it (he was totally fed up with what he BELIEVED to be abuses of citizens by gov't) ...
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