Lou Dobbs Interviews Journalist About Iraqi Terror Connection To OKC Bombing

Lou Dobbs Moneyline (CNN) ^ | September 9, 2002

[PJ-Comix]

LOU DOBBS: Also still ahead, a former television journalist says that Iraqi intelligence agencies were involved in the bombing of the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City. Jayna Davis will be here to tell us why there may have been an Iraqi connection......

[ET(end tyranny)]

The odds are pretty high, I'd say. I never bought the story of McVey doing it alone, and that book is just plain creepy.

This Towers book isn't much better with it's canisters of anthrax being placed in ventilation shafts and bombs placed in the lower levels of the buildings so that the explosion sends gusts of air up the shafts to disperse the anthrax.....

And then there's been threads on canisters of fertilizer that have gone missing!

[lasereye]

Plus Foster is left handed and it was in his right hand.

[PJ-Comix]

I sure hope Mark Fuhrman starts working on his Foster case book soon.

[sanchmo]

bump

[DrLiberty]

Why not link to Iraq back then?

I think Clinton was going for maximum political effect (as Dick Morris pointed out) and also I'm not sure that it was for him to go after Iraq at that time.(ie maybe it was being saved til 2002 and for Bush to do?)

Certainly Clinton had no stomach for that kind of undertaking or dealing with people like Osama either. He seemed to be in charge to let this stuff get to the boiling point instead of dealing with it effectively. So now Clinton is a convenient scapegoat (deservedly of course) that Bush wont investigate for anything.

So the Dems and Repubs seem to work together well in this regard, eh?

[buffyt]

That is really eerie! I had not heard of the book!

[ET(end tyranny)]

Governor Tom Keating's brother

Small correction. It's Frank Keating.

[Stand Watch Listen]

fyi

[buffyt]

[DrLiberty]

All those Keating folk and their adventures hard to keep track of....

[ET(end tyranny)]

Why not blame the OKC bombing on the foreign terrorist back then ?

Possibility. Maybe they figured if they blamed the ME, then later when the book was published, they thought the ME was claim they were set up?

I have no idea, but I wonder why wasn't book published ealier if it was finished in 1991? Why the long delay?

[ET(end tyranny)]

When I first read it, I thought Tom Keating didn't sound right, lol.

[martian_22]

Got another one to add to your list.

The OKC bombing definitely helped to ram through the Domestic Terrorism Act. I've seen it used by the Xlin-Ton administration's Justice(?) Dept. to "go after" militias, Christians and guns. This was what they needed to go after the enemies of marxism.

[Fred Mertz]

Self reference bump.

[alrea]

"go after" militias, Christians and guns

and racists or southern church burners

[martian_22]

Racist's come in all colors.

As for church burnings....I haven't seen or heard of a real(hateful) one for decades. The only ones I've heard of come every election cycle or for insurance reasons. Just coincidence....

[Reactionary]

"No, this is just a lame attempt to get Hard Right sympathizers from the Clinton years blood thirsty for war with Iraq."

Sure. But there's one little problem. Long before anyone was considering invading Iraq we've been talking about Oklahoma City and the Iraqi connection.

You happen to think our motives are wrong, and you offer as "proof" an assertion that isn't even historically accurate.

[The Doctor]

The reason the "govt" (collectively) deliberately did not want to implicate Middle-eastern terrorists is because it suited a multiplicity of purposes:

1) The radical rightwing ideology of McVeigh played into the hands of the blame-oriented partisan politics of the Clinton thugs.

2) It is a simpler explanation than an international terrorist thread, which, when pulled, unravels a story that may not end cleanly for the admin or the intelligence community or the big military dealers who lobby Congress.

3) It's possible that some of the unnamed terrorists may have been Saudi and that some big military sales could have been jeapordized.

4) PLUS: there has been more than speculation that Terry Nichols had a tie to the Phillipines terrorist organization that has ties to Al Queda.

[Free Vulcan]

self search bump

[Nuke'm Glowing]

"Why not link to Iraq back then?"

Because it gave him the inside track on several things:

1. He could put more of "his" people inside the Justice Department for bigger plans in the future.

2. He was a coward and could never be a war time President.

3. He could blame the "far right" and look like a hero while muting the Gingrich movement even more.

4. Reno could be assured that she would skate on Waco and Ruby Ridge by demonstrating how dangerous the "far right" was.

5. The Saudis paid Klintoon off to not attack Iraq.