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ONE REASON FOR THE FBI'S APPARent lack of interest might be this motel's alleged connection to Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Oklahoma City. According to the motel owner and other witnesses and investigators interviewed by the Weekly, McVeigh and several of these Iraqis were motel guests in the months preceding the 1995 bombing. Witnesses also claimed they saw several of the Iraqis moving barrels of material around on the bed of a truck. The motel owner said the material smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a spill. Diesel fuel was a key component of the truck bomb that blew up the Federal Building.

The motel owner said he and his staff reported this information to the FBI in 1995. "We did have an ATF agent come out and collect the originals of the room registrations for that period, but we never heard back from them. And I never could get the registrations returned."

McVeigh and a bunch of Iraqis moving drums of diesel on a flatbed truck.

Huh.

Nothing to see here.

And, just to be certain, we'll take the originals of the room registrations.

Look up here at my flashlight. . .hold it. . .FLASH--

You were saying. . . .

One thing that stinks about OKC: Ever try mixing a wheelbarrow of cement by hand? A 55 gallon drum is much bigger. Ever try loading a full drum onto a truck, not at a loading dock? Unless the truck had a lift, this is exhausting work - maybe not even possible for one man. I worked as a groundskeeper when I was in high school. I know what it's like to move, literally, tons of material by hand. Making a truck bomb in one night sounds like a difficult job for four men.

But we don't have to speculate: We know how the bombs for the embassy bombings were made: http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01032054.htm and we know these were not one-man, one-night operations.

this is worth repeating, phil.

any comments from the peanut gallery?

ONE REASON FOR THE FBI'S APPARent lack of interest might be this motel's alleged connection to Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Oklahoma City. According to the motel owner and other witnesses and investigators interviewed by the Weekly, McVeigh and several of these Iraqis were motel guests in the months preceding the 1995 bombing. Witnesses also claimed they saw several of the Iraqis moving barrels of material around on the bed of a truck. The motel owner said the material smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a spill. Diesel fuel was a key component of the truck bomb that blew up the Federal Building.

The motel owner said he and his staff reported this information to the FBI in 1995.