We were duped about Okla. bombing

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Monday, July 15, 2002 | Ralph R. Reiland

[Jean S]

Shortly after the explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, an "all points bulletin" went out over the Oklahoma City police radio band alerting law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a "late model, almost new, Chevrolet, full-size pickup, brown in color with tinted windows and a smoke-colored bug deflector on the front."

[Fred Mertz]

"We, as American citizens, had a right to know that the Iraqi regime was directly implicated in the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City," writes columnist Carol Devine-Molin.

Is this part of the war drum beating for the get Iraq crowd?

[Jhoffa_]

Instead of telling the truth and uniting Americans on "common ground" against a foreign enemy, he chose to divide the country in order to remain in office for four more years.

And with the precedent we are setting over 9/11 it's amazing he didn't stay in power forever.

[backhoe]

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[bert]

Please put on your tinfoil hat and then answer me.....is Tim dead?

[SheLion]

Please put on your tinfoil hat and then answer me.....is Tim dead?

Is he dead? Only the Shadow knows for sure. I have often wondered this myself.

Witness protection program maybe?

[Jhoffa_]

The freemasons did it!! Don't be fooled!

[spycatcher]

McVeigh's lawyers tried to bring it up. Te problem was they had a psychotically egocentric client who also wasn't the type to rat out his buddies.

[happygrl]

Tim went quietly because his sister was threatened with prosecution.

[Dave S]

Im confused, the article mentioned by the Iranians and the Iraqi's. Which are the ones that I should put on my tin foil to avoid?

All you tin foilers out there... do you really think McVeigh could be in witness protection and no one would talk. In Washington, if two people are privy to something, one of them is talking.

[Clara Lou]

will someone tell me why McVeigh would allow himself to be executed without mentioning (in his defense) the participation of Iraquis (whom he had fought against in the Persian Gulf War)
You raise a very good point. Also, why wouldn't someone claim the "credit" for the "successful" bombing?

[Dave S]

Tim went quietly because his sister was threatened with prosecution.

Yeah right? Who is going to take sure death to avoid a sibbling possibly being prosecuted and possibly being convicted (especially if the prosecution would bring into question his own quilt). I think some of you are willing to go any length to believe that Tim Lives and that the "cigarette smoking man" does in fact run the US government. Repeat after me...The X-Files was only a TV program.

[Dems_R_Losers]

McVeigh probably did not know he was used by the Islamists. He died willingly because he did set off the Ryder truck bomb, but he never knew who was really behind the plot. I believe Terry Nichols knows, and is the key to unraveling the whole thing. His trips to the Phillipines were covered up by the ruse of going there to find a wife.

There is also the supposed evidence suggesting that there were bombs planted inside the Murrah building, which actually did most of the damage. McVeigh may not have known about these, which could have been planted by the Islamists.

I do not think you have to be a tin-foil hat wearer to believe this. Oklahoma City has a well known, large population of expatriate Iraqis. They did not announce their involvement in the crime, as other terrorist groups have, because McVeigh was captured so quickly and they knew that they could continue planning other operations, TWA 800 being one probable example. Clinton obviously had a vested interest in covering up the OKC plot; it was the thing that saved his presidency. Of course, then he had to cover up TWA 800 so the OKC plot would not be uncovered.

It does seem fishy to see this in a mainstream paper, just as we are running up to a probable invasion of Iraq; but just because the timing is fishy doesn't mean it isn't true!!

[pocat]

15 of the 19 9-11 highjackers were from Saudi Arabia. Are the Saudis now doing anything to crack down on extremists?

One of the main "masterminds" behind the 9-11 attacks was a Kuwaiti national. Any more suspects being rooted out there?

Hey! Great idea...Let's bomb Iraq. I'm not saying that Saddam doesn't need his ass kicked, but he sure makes one hell of a whipping boy when the going gets rough and we want to deflect any blame or responsibility away from our "allies".

[Dems_R_Losers]

Also note that some people who saw John Doe #2 described him as Middle Eastern in appearance. Why has he never been found and questioned?

[jumpstartme]

I think it was the freemòòsers.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Sounds like propaganda from the Bush administration coming at this time onlyweeks before an Iraqi strike, and an election

Hey Hillary, we don't buy this crap here......take it back to DU.........

[PolishProud]

Yeah, and we didn't land on the moon either.Right? Give it a rest. You're an embarrassment.