[honway]

A reply by OKCSubmariner on another thread concerning a March,11 2002 Schippers interview:

"I have now listened to the audio of the Quinn radio program today with David Schippers.

Schippers does say that he has a witness who saw and heard friends of Al Hussaini from OKC talking in August of 2001 at a hotel to hijacker pilot Moahmmed Atta and Zacharias Moussaoui (trained at Norman OK flight school and at a flight school in Minnesota).

Schippers described John Doe #2 for the OKC bombing case as the Iraqi Al Hussaini. Schippers says that he now believes that Hussaini is a more more important terrorist operative than he originally realized. Schippers said Hussaini is a key money mover for terrorists and their operations."

[honway]

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/45/9-11-crogan.php

Link

Employees and guests at a motel near downtown Oklahoma City reported seeing McVeigh with several Middle Eastern men in the months before the bombing. One of those men was identified from KFOR's surveillance photos of Samara Properties as possibly being Al-Hussaini. The others were identified as fellow employees of Al-Hussaini.

McVeigh reportedly stayed at the motel, under the name of Bob Kling, an alias he had used before, according to the FBI. The witnesses said they had often seen several of the men moving large barrels around in the back of an old white truck that frequently broke down on the lot. The barrels smelled of diesel, they said, an ingredient in the bomb that destroyed the federal building. According to an FBI report, an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent confiscated the motel's registration records and logs.

[Wallaby]

Tulsa World
April 30, 2002 Tuesday
Lawmakers skirt report on McVeigh
JIM MYERS
World Washington Bureau
:
WASHINGTON -- Members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation kept their distance Monday from a report that a House committee chairman is looking into allegations that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh had ties to Islamic terrorists.
Most declined to comment, and those who did indicated House Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., should let the proper agencies take the lead.

On allegations like this, with thousands of false leads outnumbering the good leads, it's best to check with the original investigators before Congress starts anything on our own," U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., said. Burton's office did not return repeated phone calls.

According to U.S. News and World Report, Burton is looking into allegations that McVeigh, a veteran of the Persian Gulf war, met with Iraqi agents in an Oklahoma City motel prior to the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The bombing killed 168 people, the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States until the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the East Coast.

After the meeting, according to the unsubstantiated reports" cited by the magazine, two of the Sept. 11 hijackers used the same motel to meet with Zacarias Moussaoui.

Dubbed the 20th suspected hijacker, Moussaoui lived in Norman while he attended a flight school. He left that school abruptly and was arrested in Minnesota about a month before the hijackings. A man who became his friend has been sentenced to 15 months on an unrelated weapons charge.

Burton, according to the magazine's sources, has dispatched investigators to Oklahoma City and has assigned three members of his panel's staff to work on the matter.

Little else is known about the claims; Burton has not shared his concerns with his colleagues from Oklahoma.

A source told the Tulsa World the FBI field office in Oklahoma City received an urgent" request to make available any documents concerning allegations that McVeigh had connections to foreign actors. That request, the source said, was for a congressional committee.

The federal government has maintained for years that there was no foreign involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Other members of Congress sound satisfied with that explanation.

You would think that in the course of the exhaustive federal investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing that this meeting would have come to light," said Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., whose congressional district included the Murrah building, the target of McVeigh's truck bomb.

An aide for Rep. Wes Watkins, R-Okla., said the congressman is not aware of specific information Burton may have about a possible connection between McVeigh and Islamic terrorists.

If credible evidence exists, the aide said, Watkins believes an investigation should move forward.
Burton's investigation does not represent the first time foreign involvement has been alleged in the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh's former attorney, Stephen Jones, claimed in his book that the bombing was the work of more than McVeigh and his co-conspirator Terry Nichols.

Jones said Nichols, who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the bombing, met with the Iraqi intelligence operatives who were responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing.

Both Nichols' attorney and the federal prosecutor have dismissed Jones' claim.