Folks, McVeigh might have been duped into committing the OKC Bombing. Whether duped or not, he certainly deserved exactly what he got. But there are times, when in the interest of self-interest for the nation, men and women need to show restraint. IMO we screwed up last year, BIG TIME.
At the time I suggested that Tim McVeigh might one day see things differently. Little did I know that aound six months after his death this nation would be attacked in a manner exponentially worse than the attack on the OKC Federal Building. McVeigh was involved in an attack against the FBI, BATF or other federal entities, and the building occupants. I suspect he was so focused on the BATF or FBI that he was blinded to the children and others in the building. Or perhaps he felt their deaths were warranted in exchange for those at Waco. Frankly it's difficult to understand how he could have done what he did. But I none the less feel that he would have seen the attacks on 09/11 differently.
I suspect McVeigh saw the OKC Bombing as an attack on federal agencies with colateral damage. I don't think he would have seen the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon as mere attacks on federal agencies. He would have likely seen them as attacks against the nation as a whole. I have no way of knowing, but I suspect he might have been willing to loosen up with some information if he were appoached correctly after 09/11. Terry Nichols hasn't. Perhaps McVeigh wouldn't have either. Or perhaps neither of them would if the feds didn't bother to ask them. Somehow I doubt the feds are too anxious to have Nichols or anyone tie in the middle-east to OKC. But then we have made sure that at least McVeigh will never be able to help us.
Now there is talk of middle-easterners being connected to the OKC bombing. The John Gibson show on 06/20 presented a former CBS reporter's (Jayna Davis) report about the ME operatives that witnesses insist that they saw with McVeigh. This was as emphatic a presentation as I have every seen with regard to middle-eastern involvement in the OKC bombing. John Gibson ended his show with a resounding question that earily implied that the government's attempt at a cover-up may just be coming unraveled. Here is that editorial by Gibson. I appologize that I as unable to obtain the text from the interview of the reporter earlier in the program. But I belive this editorial will display the impact it had on Gibson.
Thursday, June 20, 2002
By John Gibson
I think we're all convinced by now that George W. Bush has the cross hairs on Saddam Hussein.
And it's clear from the latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll that the American public supports action against Saddam by a huge, huge margin: 75 percent for — 14 percent against. In electoral politics that's a landslide.
But what do you think those numbers would be if it turns out reporter Jayna Davis is right? If the Iraqis were behind the Oklahoma City bombing, and Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols were in fact so called 'lilly whites' recruited to act as fronts for Muslim or Iraqi, or maybe even Iranian, terror against the U.S. heartland.
And what if it turns out that Tim McVeigh, as a matter of pride and profound embarrassment, would never admit, never let it be known that he was acting in concert with, or on behalf of an actual enemy of the United States — Iraq — an enemy that he personally fought against?
Or what if he was so worried about the fate of his beloved sister if he ever confessed that John Doe No. 2 was in fact hussein alhussani, the Iraqi identified by Jayna Davis?
How much angrier would the American public be to learn that the horror of April '95 was in fact Iraqi terror, carried under the shroud of two disgruntled, ticked off at the feds over David Koresh, white guys?
How angry would the American public be if it turns out that the prosecution of McVeigh as the executive in charge of the Murrah bombing was in fact a diversion, so as to let the real perps slip away quietly to gloat about their death and destruction in the safety of their lairs in Baghdad and Tehran.
This is nightmare scenario stuff, and what's so scary about this bad dream is there is actual evidence underpinning the fear that it could be true.
Did we execute Tim McVeigh when there was evidence that might have mitigated his involvement in the plot?
Did we send McVeigh to his grave keeping the secret of John Doe No. 2, and the terrible secret of treason and the hand of Iraq in that bombing?
Were we so anxious to get a conviction in that case and give the families closure, that we didn't follow the leads that would have led to an invasion of Iraq years ago, the toppling of Saddam, and maybe — just maybe — the destruction of the terror network that later killed more than 3,000 in New York and Washington, DC?
These are provocative questions that deserve answers and luckily Terry Nichols is still breathing and is facing a state trial in Oklahoma.
Let's hope the prosecutors there get to the bottom of this once and for all.
That's My Word.
Davis presented a strong case regarding witnesses seeing middle-easterners with McVeign and Nichols. For once a talking head did not treat a person offering up information like Davis' in a hostile manner. Gibson asked questions that probed and developed the case Davis was trying to make, that there was clearly a middle-eastern involvement.
If that show pops up this weekend, I'll tape the segment I missed and air it. I think that show was something every American should hear.
I'd like to think this show caught a few people's attention across America.