[raybbr]

I agree with your sentiments.

Which, once again, raises the matter of all those federal homeland-security dollars we are losing to various states.

The real crux of the article, IMO.

[dufekin]

Wait a minute. Twenty-six months after WTC I (1993), a terrorist attack rocked Oklahoma City. From all of the media coverage of the trials, I have found some things very interesting.

(1) First, I have no doubt that the accused and convicted are guilty. But I doubt that they are the only guilty parties.

(2) There was a Philippine "mail-order bride" presumably of one of the killers involved. Apparently she, and perhaps one or the other or both bombers traveled and otherwise communicated back and forth to the Philippines. Ramzi Yousef (apparently tied to Iraq and guilty of WTC I) fled to the Philippines. Is there any connection? I don't know.

(3) Apparently there is an unnamed, unindicted co-conspirator frequently sighted with one, another, or both of the convicted conspirators. He is described by numerous witnesses as dark and black-haird--but never "black" or "African-American." This suggests either an American Indian, East Asian, Hispanic, or Arab. Based upon what I've seen and heard, might this person be a Muslim terrorist?

Just a few thoughts. Certainly raises the prospect of al-Qaida attacks outside New York.