Posted on 06/11/2002 9:15:40 AM PDT by TankerKC
Also, the OKC bombing was 1995, not 1993. Was that a typo on your part?
I'm wondering if this guy has relations--I just finished American Jihad, and Moose Limb terrorism is a family-business kind of thing. You know, "I wanna be just like Dad/my older brother/my cousin when I blow up."
why would the CIA blow up a federal building?
To set up white milita types or???
Later the Brits brought in thousands of people from India.
It is frequently difficult to be sure about whether an individual from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, etc. is of Spanish or Middle Eastern origins as a result.
Nah. My brain just slipped a gear. I was thinking "beginning of the Clinton Administration" and I just mis remembered. That Administration was sooooooooooo looooooooong that it is hard for me to remember exact times. LOL. My fault. Sorry.
Youmake a good point with your cap observatons, but I still think these two are remarkably alike. If they are the same person, the cap anomoly could have been an attempt to "fit in" as Al Quaeda are supposed to do. Even if he wasn't Al Quaeda at that time, I'm sure that various militia organizations have their own dress codes too.
No. I think Bush and Ashcroft are more straightforward than that.
Padilla, born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican ancestry, moved to Chicago with his family at age 5. He attended Charles R. Darwin Grammar School. Whatever high school education he received came from the juvenile justice system, friends said.
The rest of the story, which is basically a "poor stupid kid" piece:
Glenn Beck's picture of the day, FYI
The caller is correct, but Nichols' wife is Philippino, and this guy is of Puerto Rican heritage.
http://doenumber2.4t.com/index.htm
Stephen Jones, the chief defense counsel for Timothy McVeigh, the first of two men convicted in the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, lays out a case that McVeigh and Terry Nichols, also convicted in the bombing, did not act alone. In his attempt to defend McVeigh, Jones traveled the globe to turn up every possible scrap of information that might lead him to the "others unknown" cited by the grand jury that heard evidence in the bombing case. Some of the evidence is compelling, including the severed leg that did not match any of the victims; Jones is convinced it belonged to "John Doe number two," an unidentified man credited with planting the bomb in the Murrah Office Building. Jones also lays out a very strong argument that Terry Nichols was in touch with Muslim fundamentalist terrorists in the Philippines and that he asked them to help him build a bomb. But Jones's refusal to break his attorney-client privilege by discussing anything that McVeigh said to him forces the author to walk a tightrope, revealing nothing about his client's role in the bombing while trying to outline the potential involvement of others.
Non-conspiracy buffs may find it far-fetched that the United States government would want to cover up information about the possible involvement of Muslim fundamentalists or white supremacists in the bombing, but Jones has two arguments to support the idea. First, he suggests, the government was trying to cover its tracks for not having heeded various danger signs before the bombing took place. In addition, this was too big and too horrible a crime to go unpunished; it had to be closed without question and with no suspects left at large. For those who are persuaded by Jones's arguments, the chilling question remains: when--and where--will the "others unknown" strike next? --Linda Killian
Book Description
In this startling book, the state-appointed chief defense counsel for Timothy McVeigh argues that to assume that the bombing of the Murrah Office Building in Oklahoma City was merely the work of two "mad bombers" is to ignore the real meaning of the most serious episode of terrorism in American history. Others Unknown does not merely reconstruct the trial. Stephen Jones had access to a vast amount of research material and possesses an insider's understanding of the behind-the-scenes politics..
If I remember correctly, Nichols' wife was Malasian,
or, at least, East Asian.
Jose Padilla originally is from Puerto Rico, I believe.
1) John Doe #2
2) Vicente Padilla, Phillies starting pitcher
3) Jose Padilla
Reply to previous post by CS: why would the CIA blow up a federal building?
To set up white milita types or???
Myself: Remember, the FBI had a big office in that building. So do you still have to ask?
Seriously though. Some say it was a sting operation on militant types that went wrong. The bomb was never supposed to go off.
See: http://members.aol.com/bardonia2/oklahoma.htm I have no idea who the author of that site is. I just found that trying to look up info.
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