From ------ http://www.newsday.com/ny-wolond042398290oct04.story
"On Monday, police detained Mohammed Jameel, 25, Sakina's operations director, under Britain's Terrorism Act, which allows them to hold suspects without charge for several days. For the past three years, Jameel, a British citizen, organized training camps in the English countryside for young Muslims to learn hand-to-hand combat and survival techniques."
[Oct. 4, 2001] "But FBI officials in Washington said they had no information on Sakina or Jameel.
Michigan officials said they had no record of any company named Sakina. "To my knowledge they don't have to be licensed, they don't have to get any particular permits to operate a gun range," said State Police spokesman Mike Prince."
"British investigators say the training took place at rented shooting ranges in Michigan, Missouri and Virginia." [ but not Alabama] [Missouri is a short drive to Oklahoma]
Everyone on the Hill who knew anything back then is now desperately trying to act as if they didn't. At the same time, they must be slowly realizing there's just no stopping this one. It's too big.
Serves 'em right. They never should have caved in to Bill and his stolen FBI files in the first place, or whatever it was that made them cower down to his inflammatory "evil Limbaugh, right-wing" rhetoric.
I'd love to see the sick, bilious look on each one of their faces as more and more reporters call them for interviews about OKC. In fact, I think we need to attach a name to that bilious look and start calling it "McCollumitis."
An Oklahoma Mystery: New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists
by Jim Crogan
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/35/news-crogan.phpBack in 1995, several Congressional Committees did search for international ties to the Oklahoma City attack, but came up empty, explained former Representative Bill McCollum in an interview. Still, the reports issued by the House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, which McCollum chaired until 1995, were quite prescient.
"The task force was on the mark when it came to their warnings about the emerging threat of Middle Eastern terrorism," McCollum said. "I can tell you that we were very concerned about the possibility of a Middle East connection to Oklahoma City. But we never found any evidence there was one."
McCollum, however, said he never heard of the reporting done by TV journalist Jayna Davis, which connected McVeigh and Nichols with Middle Eastern figures in Oklahoma City and the Philippines. Nor did he know of Davis' ongoing communications with Yossef Bodansky, executive director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. "Seffy [Bodansky] never told me anything about that," he said. "This is all news to me."
Get a clue, guys. Just shut up and do something about it now and stop thinking you can keep it buried, you morons. Americans are a forgiving people. Just stop lying!
Go, Dan Burton, go!