One thing for certain, Pat Briley, our own OKCSubmariner, went far beyond the call of duty to inform the public and try to urge our elected representatives to do their job. If they would have only listened.
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There are 21 sworn affidavits of eyewitnesses who saw McVeigh with seven Middle Eastern John Does who helped McVeigh in Oklahoma City on April 18 and 19,1995. From 1996 until February 1999, the FBI and Federal prosecutors refused to accept these affidavits by saying that receiving them would compromise the prosecution’s case and help the defense case. FBI agent Dan Vogel finally accepted the affidavits in February 1999 after I went to the Senate Intelligence Committee to put pressure on the FBI to receive the affidavits. It is believed these Middle Eastern John Does are connected to a cell near Dallas, Texas known to the FBI and operated by Bin Laden and perhaps Abu Nidal.
Dave McCurdy, the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee wrote an article published in the Oklahoma Gazette in May 1995 in which he states he was told by the FBI that a local Middle Eastern terrorist cell connected to Hamas was believed to have been involved in the OKC bombing. He claimed that the FBI had shown him training films of the terrorist cell.
According to sworn affidavits and a news conference in December 1998, Lana Tyree, a local attorney and Congressman Ernest Istook told deputy sheriffs Don Hammons and David Kochendorfer on the night of April 19, 1995 that the government had knowledge of a credible threat against the Murrah Building from a local Middle Eastern terrorist group on April 9, 1995 and that they ”blew it”. FBI agent James Carlysle tried to intimidate Kochendoerfer and vowed to write his FBI interview report to reflect a different story than the one Kochendorfer insisted was correct. Carlysle tried to intimidate other witnesses in this case and is believed to have falsified his interview reports.
Herb Johnson was the Chief of Staff and closest advisor for Senator James Inhofe. Johnson wrote and signed a letter which was provided to an attorney and a reporter. The letter stated that a member of the FBI command post in OKC told Johnson that the DOJ was worried and upset because reporters had learned of the Middle Eastern involvement in the OKC bombing and were concerned how they were going to cover it up. I told Inhofe personally about the letter in January 1999. To this date, Inhofe has not conducted an adequate investigation or prosecution relating to Johnson’s allegations. Inhofe is on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees.
FBI agent Floyd Zimms deliberately gave out false information from the FBI command post about the getaway car of Middle Eastern suspects to OKC police officer Don Browning. This false information contributed to the escape of the suspects who were being detained in Dallas. Zimms actually told the police officer that the information was false and told him not to talk about it.
Jane Thomas, an employee of the OKC bombing museum, told me that FBI agents had told her that the FBI knew of Middle Eastern men involved in the bombing but that the FBI could not go after them without jeopardizing the lives of FBI informants and operatives in Middle Eastern cells.
There is one FBI informant who worked for the FBI six years out of Sacramento, set up terrorist cells throughout the US for Bin Laden and is believed to have helped in the OKC bombing. The FBI operative was Ali Mohammed who was indicted in early 1999 for the World Trade Center and Kenyan and Tanzanian bombings and for setting up these terrorist cells in the US. When arrested, Ali had on his possession US intelligence manuals and documents concerning hiding explosives in public buildings. The source for this information on Ali comes from December 1998 articles in the New York Times.