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Report: 'Lily Whites' Recruited to Carry Out OKC Bombing
NewsMax.com ^ | Sunday June 30, 2002; 12:21 a.m. EDT | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 06/29/2002 10:49:44 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow

Sunday June 30, 2002; 12:21 a.m. EDT

Report: 'Lily Whites' Recruited to Carry Out OKC Bombing

A congressional task force investigating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing had information suggesting that Islamic plotters recruited two "lily whites" - non-Middle Easterners with no connection to prior terrorist activity - to carry out the attack ultimately perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, according to a report broadcast late Saturday.

Terrorism expert Yoseff Bodansky discussed the previously secret evidence obtained by Congress during an interview with Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby.

COSBY: I'm going to read some information that we obtained here at Fox News - something else you wrote that, more importantly, that the congressional task force learned: That two "lily whites" - these are people sort of considered non-Middle Easterners - had been recruited to carry out the bombing of an American federal building.

BODANSKY: "Lily whites" are people that have no - nothing to do with ethnic background, that's not true. "Lily whites" is the term used for people who have no past known encounter with security authorities anywhere in the U.S. or anywhere in the world. And therefore, there's no way they will raise an alarm bell with the security authorities once they're involved in something.

COSBY: So these are people who would sort of be out of the scope?

BODANSKY: It can be somebody from the heart of Africa, somebody from the middle of Australia or anywhere else. (End of Excerpt)

Couple Bodansky comments with a report on Judicial Watch Radio last week, where Judicial Watch co-counsel Mike Johnson detailed a very specific warning that came just hours before the OKC bombing from Washington, D.C.'s then-top terrorism expert.

"Vincent Cannistraro, who is the former Chief of Counter-Terrorism for the CIA, called Special (FBI) Agent Kevin L. Foust, and informed him that one of his best sources from Saudi Arabia intelligence specifically advised him that there was a squad of people currently in the United States, very possibly Iraqi, and I'm quoting, 'who have been tasked with carrying out terrorist acts against the United States,'" said Johnson.

"The Saudi informant, who's part of the Saudi Counter-Terrorism Service, told him that he had seen the list and that 'first on the list was the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.'"

Johnson said other targets on the Saudi informant's list included Immigration of Naturalization Service offices in Houston and what was then the FBI's counterterrorism headquarters in Los Angeles.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: fredthompson; okcbombing
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To: meenie
If this is an example of how the FBI's is protecting us, we are all in deep trouble.

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21 posted on 06/30/2002 4:12:42 AM PDT by greenhornet68
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To: ThePythonicCow
bump
22 posted on 06/30/2002 4:36:10 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: backhoe

23 posted on 06/30/2002 4:42:57 AM PDT by Nick Danger
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To: ThePythonicCow
btttttttttttttt
24 posted on 06/30/2002 4:46:05 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: meenie
explain to me why the FBI covered up the Mideast connection. There is where the real question should be asked. Also ask yourself, if this is true, what you think of the FBI being our protector in the War on Terror.

OK, I will take a shot at that. The FBI reports to their boss who reports to their boss who reports to the President. They are not independent. Clinton policy was to minimize the importance of foreign terrorism. He had other agendas, and most importantly he wanted to control the agenda of his administration. Fighting a war against elusive terrorists wasn't on his list.

As to the current FBI, they will only be as good as their bosses want them to be.

I am not persuaded of Bush's diligence on this issue when I look at the pathetic airline security measures which target knitting needles of eighty year old Swedish women while refusing to arm pilots. But others may come to different conclusions...
25 posted on 06/30/2002 4:48:03 AM PDT by cgbg
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To: goldstategop
Why do you suppose the Justice Department was so eager to help McVeigh get his wish to die?McVeigh had apparently been indoctrinated like a suicide bomber.If Nichols knows anything you can bet it will never get to the public.If he doesnt die soon of natural causes like Jack Ruby or by an accident it will surprise me.
26 posted on 06/30/2002 5:02:09 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: ThePythonicCow
I used to think this theory was borderline nutty. Now I think OKC is part of a long campign of terror against the U.S. that reaches all the way back to the Air Arrow crash in Gander. (Why do you think the 101st Airborne went to Afgaistan?) I think many of these acts were covered up or misattributed in order to delay going to war. I think the coverups include TWA 800 and AA 587.
27 posted on 06/30/2002 5:11:19 AM PDT by eno_
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To: ChasingFletch
Don't be so pessimistic. We are the people that count. As long as we know - and there is an expanding circle of us - the coverup is a joke. What Dan Rather says is, nowadays, a joke. Anyone who believes him is a fool.
28 posted on 06/30/2002 5:15:09 AM PDT by eno_
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To: Nick Danger
Thanks, Nick- that's just how I remember them!
29 posted on 06/30/2002 5:17:31 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Jhoffa_
The big deal is that the government lied and covered up. It seems to me a few people were murdered to keep it covered up. I forget who, a cop, a fireman, someone, was seen walking around by many people after the explosion, a few people even spoke with him, he was saying there were two explosions not one, he was later found dead in the rubble.

The other big deal is that the F.B.I. and the Fed, knowing that this building was going to be attacked, and about what day it would be attacked, did not notify the parents of those babies in the day care center and allow them to make a decision that would have saved their lives.

None of the FBI's or ATF's kids were present that day. And most of the FBI and ATF were out of the building that morning safe and sound, one supervisor lied about being in the elevator on the way down when the bomb exploded, the elevator matinance man proved that couldn't be true, and the FBI agent finally admitted he lied about it.

It's a can of worms, the lid needs to come off of it, but I doubt it ever will.

30 posted on 06/30/2002 5:19:03 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: ThePythonicCow
bttt
31 posted on 06/30/2002 5:49:51 AM PDT by Twodees
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To: MissAmericanPie
read link at 19
32 posted on 06/30/2002 5:57:24 AM PDT by Lucky
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To: MissAmericanPie
Bingo!!! Glad someone else remembered this.
33 posted on 06/30/2002 6:02:48 AM PDT by Founding Father
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To: Jhoffa_
Terrorism expert Yoseff Bodansky discussed the previously secret evidence obtained by Congress during an interview with Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby. Scuse me.. But, why was this kept secret?

I fail to see the implications and the advantages of not simply stating this as fact in the first place.

I mean, Big Deal..

It is a very big deal. It would mean the demise of the Federal intelligence and FBI beuracracies as we know them and, more importantly, would reveal the depth of fore knowledge by certain members of Congress who failed or were in collusion with foreign interests to allow the bombing to happen. Pressure from a variety of soruces is bringing the story out. The question remains, will the pressure be enough to shed complete light on the story?

34 posted on 06/30/2002 6:13:17 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: ThePythonicCow
BUMP!!
35 posted on 06/30/2002 6:19:06 AM PDT by proudofthesouth
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To: ThePythonicCow
Has everone forgotten about Michael Fortier who has TESTIFIED he was contacrted DIRECTLY by McVeigh for recruitment in the Murrah Building bombing?

Yes ...

Has everyone forgotten about the theories that it was an inside job using cutter charges with ADVANCE NOTICE given to certain feds AS PROPOSED by noneother than michael rivero and ex-USAF bomb-dropper Gen Partin?

Yes ...

Has everyone forgotten about the theories that it was white supremecists/identity members recruited from Elohim City?

Yes ...

Well there be MORE hair-ball theories upcoming from a dedicated cadre of conspiracy theorists with no lives toiliing relentlessly in their basements next to stockpiles of rotting Y2K rations?

Yes ...


36 posted on 06/30/2002 6:25:12 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: MissAmericanPie
Clinton is the key
37 posted on 06/30/2002 6:26:25 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: _Jim
Will we attract the usual suspected government shills like VA_Avogadro and John_HK? A very tiresome "yes" to that. And why would Elohim city connections be at all inconsistent? It was widely reported that neonazis supported Al Quaida after 9/11.
38 posted on 06/30/2002 6:29:42 AM PDT by eno_
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To: goldstategop
It allowed them to test America's defenses and gauge the reaction ...

Total crap and a MAJOR grasp for straws ...

With the attitude these people have and the anst they display they should be running the whole world in a tyrannical fashion -

- BUT they're not and instead they spend a majority of their time fighting each other from the backs of camels.

THEY AREN'T that competent ... dysfunctional, backward and myopic yes ...

39 posted on 06/30/2002 6:34:20 AM PDT by _Jim
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To: eno_
I SUPPOSE you believe in a world-wide cabal composed of Bilderbergers, CFR and TC members too ... can you give me the tie-in with these groups and Al Quaida too? By the way, this contention that:
It was widely reported that neonazis supported Al Quaida after 9/11.
FLIES IN THE FACE OF REASON as to *why* these organizations EXIST in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!

But of course, WHEN did reason ever ENTER into the CONSPIRACY THEORIST'S WHACKY, HAIRBALL, LOONEY-BIN minds?

Are you also a believer in Carol Valentine's proposal that the JET that crashed into the Pentagon NEVER EXISTED?

That's one of her current rants - I assume you conspiracy whack-jobs are all alike and LIKEWISE buy into this hairball story too ... CONTRARY to WITNESSES and PEOPLE ON THE PLANE who made phone calls via the GTE Airfones on board those aircraft ...

I seriously think that some of you people are developmentally challenged and need help. PLEASE, do us SANE FOLK a favor and GET SOME HELP ...

40 posted on 06/30/2002 6:43:54 AM PDT by _Jim
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