Posted on 09/05/2002 4:11:09 AM PDT by Elle Bee
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?
OKLAHOMA CITY -- With the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism. Jayna Davis, a former television reporter in Oklahoma City, believes an Iraqi cell was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building here. Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie links Iraq to the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and has published a book on the subject.
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Gibson and the Judge(Napolitano) just did a tete a tete on this.
Don't know what preceded it, I turned it on in the middle of the discussion, but the Judge was talking about the government's responsibility in all of this (read that FBI, Justice Department) and how this kind of information might have been a mitigating factor for the jury weighing the death penalty against McVeigh.
Anyway, my guess is Fox will do more on this tonight, so you might want to stay tuned.
Wouldn't it seem to you that there is enough information in this one paragraph to cause law enforcement/intelligence antennae to quiver with regard to a probable connection with the bombing and the possibility of accomplices.
Yet, for some reason, even though they had the information, the FBI evidently never followed up on it.
Incompetence? Or a political red light?
Which was it? There simply isn't any other answer...
An administrtion that would kill innocent children (Waco) would not, and did not in my opinion, hesitate to impede and cover up the investigation of an incident that revived a moribund presidency. It had to appear that domestic "right-wing-kooks" were responsible, and it worked. For the remainder of the Clinton Presidency it was "the vast right wing conspiracy"that was blamed for his every shortcoming. As a ranking member of "The vast-right-wing-Conspiracy",and one for whom the phrase was invented, I can assure you that we were neither vast, or a conspiracy. Even right-wing could be up for grabs in my particular case. Conservative, for sure.
So, you cast your ballot for "political red light", over "incompetence".
That's my guess, too.
There is only one appropriate response. Declare war against the Axis and do it soon.
I was just checking to see if this had been posted. I have not even read the entire article yet.
Apparently you have forgotten that McViegh claimed that the military placed a chip inside him while he was enlisted. That should easily meet the definition of someone who may not be in full control of their facilities.
Whats interesting to me about this is that the Iraqi's may have been trying to get our government and the general public to trash militia groups and the extreme right wingers. That is clearly a diabolical and very clever way of beginning to divide a great nation that they were at war with. It is also apparent that they have acquired sympathetic individuals within this country to attempt to cover-up thier clever 'divide and conquer' strategy. Unfortunately however they over stepped their bounds when they destroyed the WTC and attacked the Pentagon. The Iraqi's and their allies cannot even handle the small nation of Israel and all they have done by attacking us is to unlesh a giant that is at least 10 times as powerful as Israel. They have sealed their own fate.
Me,too. An Iraqi connection to the OKC bombings could help me make sense of Bush's recent rhetoric.
Sending a guy to meet with McVeigh, maybe. I await further (any?) evidence. But we are talking about a tinpot dictator who actually believed his "republican guards" would last more than two days against our troops.
Do you know what an Israeli advisor to the U.S. command in the Middle East said on the day before ground operations? After surveying the facilities, he said, "Too many hospital beds, not enough POW camps."
Now you are getting into tinfoil land. If you think Saddam is clever enough to develop a giant plot to use militia groups to "divide America," well . . . .
McViegh was utilized to tarnish militia groups and right wingers. Everyone recognizes that. Remember Clinton even pointing the finger at talk radio as causing this type of 'domestic terrorism'. Now if their is an Iraqi connection, then they must have been clever enough to realize that such an event would divide the nation and allow the government to control the internal strength of America. This is not just Saddam Hussien that we are up against. It is Saddam and extremist islamists fundamentalists. That group has been around for over a thousand years. Plotting to 'divide and conquer' is normal warfare for them and not really all that clever.
Sending a guy to meet with McVeigh, maybe. I await further (any?) evidence. But we are talking about a tinpot dictator who actually believed his "republican guards" would last more than two days against our troops.
But yet, they are still there defending him right now !
Funny how a story in the Wall St. Journal can make all the difference in the world.
BTW, anyone who wants to be added to the OKC ping list, please freepmail me.
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