Will they be celebrating the beheading of the female plant worker?
Good gawsh....Oklahoma....seriously?
Oklahoma may have been touched by Islamic extremists and those acting on their behalf nearly 20 years ago.
The Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols saga, culminating in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, apparently had its roots back in the Philippines, and possible (but never established) contacts between Terry Nichols and the Abu Sayyaf Group, an Islamic front in the Philippines attached to Al Qaeda.
Both McVeigh and Nichols are commonly considered to be representing the interests of several different survivalist groups, with some familiarity with a screed called “The Turner Diaries”. This may be a red herring, though, as while the opinion is that this was the source of their radicalization, their aims and objectives happened to coincide quite well with those of Al-Qaeda and Abu Sayyaf, both bent on disrupting and terrorizing the lives of Americans in the continental US.
The narrative has always been, the bombing was entirely a plot by “right-wing” interests, and this aspect of its planning and execution was entirely domestic in origin. But the money flow has never been fully delineated, and one suspects there is more than a little connection between the costs of travel between the US and the Philippines and Nichols’ apparently limited means of support.