Posted on 06/30/2005 11:24:54 AM PDT by CHARLITE
After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. – who has publicly vowed to address unanswered questions about the bombing – went with a staff aid to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network, a private, counter-terrorist research and investigation group.
In his quizzing of Nichols, the congressman relied heavily on the investigative work of journalist Jayna Davis and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," published by WND Books.
Davis asserts Nichols and Timothy McVeigh were not the lone conspirators but were part of a greater scheme involving Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Rohrabacher has said he is "deeply disturbed" that the FBI did not follow up on affidavits Davis turned over to the bureau from 22 witnesses supporting evidence that Iraqi intelligence agents infiltrated the United States to recruit and assist McVeigh and Nichols.
Davis spoke with Rohrabacher after his visit with Nichols and gave a tape of her conversation to Northeast Intelligence Network Director Douglas Hagmann.
The congressman told Davis: "Yours is the only game in town that has any evidence."
Nichols acknowledged the existence of John Doe No. 2 – the alleged third terrorist – but stopped short of identifying him, claiming he "did not want to speculate."
However, according to Rohrabacher, Nichols said "he thought other people [beyond Nichols and Timothy McVeigh] were involved" in the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Timothy McVeigh on a number of occasions, had talked about Middle Easterners," Rohrabacher told Davis. "Terry didn't say anything that would dispel the theory, the central theory of your research, which is these people [witnesses featured in "The Third Terrorist"] actually saw Tim McVeigh and he was with Arabs, and these are the people that you tracked down."
Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said Nichols did not say anything that would undercut Davis' finding of a definitive Middle Eastern connection to the bombing.
The congressman said Nichols "didn't do anything that would in any way ... counter the witnesses that you have dug up and put on the record."
The witnesses provided sworn affidavits to Davis and Chicago-based attorney David Schippers, who served as chief investigative counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment trial of former President Clinton.
Schippers also prosecuted a number of high-profile organized crime figures under U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
After conducting lengthy videotaped interviews with more than a dozen of Davis' confidential witnesses in May, Schippers stated: "Given the credibility of these witnesses, I could get an indictment with just one day of testimony before a grand jury."
Former CIA director James Woolsey also has found the witness statements accumulated by Davis to be credible, including many who attested to observing Middle Eastern nationals in the company of McVeigh and at the Murrah building at the time of the bombing.
Rohrabacher told Davis: "Your evidence remains the heaviest"
Despite the information he received from Nichols, the congressman told Davis he still was "in no hurry" to convene congressional hearings, but said he wanted to see more of her evidence.
As WND reported, on the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, in April, Rohrabacher asked in a House-floor speech why the FBI ignored strong evidence of a Middle East connection to the attack.
Rohrabacher said at the time that if the FBI does not provide satisfactory answers to his questions, he will call for congressional hearings.
Two years ago, on the eve of U.S. action in Iraq, Davis' reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing was vindicated when the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed against her after finding "defendants did not recklessly disregard the truth" in reporting on an Iraqi soldier's alleged involvement in the bombing.
Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29290
"A priot warning?" Don gasped under his breath. "The government was warned ten days ago and no action was taken." He reasoned if Ms. Tyree had confided potentially classified information to a uniformed officer she had just met--a virtual stranger--surely this revelation would surface in the national headlines.
Bump for later
Just want to express a word of appreciation for all your hard work.
Thank You!
Stay tuned....more coming tonight or tomorrow if all goes well with the editors. I will let you know about any more stories which chronicle the major statements made in the Rohrabacher/Nichols interview.
My comment was directed at zeroisanumber's statement in #61
Is there anyone in the press, besides you, who seems interested in pursuing this story?
I would be honored. The e-mail address is jayna@jaynadavis.com.
You've done a lot. It's America's fault if we are so complacent we can't pressure our own congressmen to reopen the investigation.
There is always truth in jest. Your remarks are humorous but frightenly accurate.
Ummmmmmm....I hope you heard the Rightalk interview I did with Jayna and Dave Schippers a few months ago. :)
I've made some calls in the last 10 minutes and will draft a letter to send to Inhofe, Coburn and Coble. Thank you for what you have done.
"Who knows? Had the proper work been done at that time, there might never have been a 9/11."
Good point. I believe that Clinton's action on this would have prevented 9/11. We also know that Clinton was offered bin Laden 3 times by the Sudan and turned down the offers. Action on either or both most likely would mean that the original twin towers would still be standing on lower Manhattan.
The missing twin towers of the WTC are the Klintoon's legacy. And that is a legacy that Hillary also owns.
"Istook does not want this case re-opened"
Jayna, thanks for your diligence and courage.
With so many people to whom re-opening this would be VERY detrimental to their career bureaucratic plans and agendae, and with a mostly-complicit media, what other pressure points do you recommend we use to force attention on this situation and similar ones?
And who might you suggest, if anyone, that would be BETTER public servants if we Citizens decide we need to hire (elect) some people who WILL do the job?
Intriguing idea. Has not occurred to me in the past, but its food for thought.
I hope you don't mean "Magic Bullet/Not Proven" Specter. I warned JD that I would only trust Specter to make great promises and sweep her information under the rug -- with the rest of his coverups. Heard anything from him on OKC lately?
Spectre. Bah.
I'm sick of the lot of them. If we can't get our own Republican Majority to re-open an important investigation like this, what good are they.
Mass Murderer #1: Conservative Talk Radio
Remember? According to the left's account, there was one bomber, 150 million co-conspirators and, at the top, a few dozen hate-driven conservative talk radio show hosts who inspired the crime.
Said President Clinton of these damnable talk radio hosts:
"[They are] purveyors of hate and division ... [they] leave the impression, by their very words, that violence is acceptable."
The leftist media took the cue. Bryant Gumbel added: "The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men.
"While no one's suggesting right-wing radio jocks approve of violence [that's exactly what he was suggesting], the extent to which their approach fosters violence is being questioned by many observers, including the president. ...
"Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group, and invite invective from like-minded people."
Time senior writer Richard Lacayo piled on: "In a nation that has entertained and appalled itself for years with hot talk on the radio ... the inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an un-indicted co-conspirator in the blast."
Hello there, thanks so much for the invitation. Its always wonderful to chat with the freepers. Keeps one sane in a world gone mad with injustice.
Jayne - if you are still here, I have a question. Did the 9/11 Commission interview you at all? I thought I read that they were handed your book for review.
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