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Tornados hitting OK....near OK City. Midwest getting hit hard.

The federal government attempted in 2005 to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table in his Oklahoma murder trial if he admitted to making a warning phone call to the FBI the day before the 1995 bombing, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were released to Jesse Trentadue, the Salt Lake City attorney who's been in a 15-year fight with the federal government to prove his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, was mistakenly beaten to death during an FBI interrogation because he closely resembled a man who...

OKLAHOMA CITY - In the days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. government used a spy satellite to gather intelligence on a white separatist compound in Oklahoma, according to a published report. The McCurtain Daily Gazette reported Wednesday that it had obtained a Secret Service log indicating that on May 2, 1995 _ two weeks after the April 19 bombing _ the FBI was trying to locate suspects for questioning. They were thought to be in Elohim City, a compound near the town of Muldrow. "Satellite assets have been tasked to provide intelligence concerning the compound," the document...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Terry Nichols admitted during plea negotiations in his state trial last year that he played a major role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nichols admitted to prosecutors in a signed statement that he helped Timothy McVeigh make the bomb that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, The Oklahoman reported. McVeigh was put to death for masterminding the attack. "McVeigh told me what to do," Nichols said in the statement, which was prepared with the aid of his attorneys. Nichols, 49, is serving life sentences without...

Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com , show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support...

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Recently translated documents captured by U.S. forces provide new evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Rosters of officers in Saddam's Fedayeen list Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who was present at the January 2000 al-Qaida "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9-11 attacks were planned, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Fedayeen was the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday, which was deployed to do much of the regime's dirty work. The U.S. has never been sure Shakir was at the Kuala...

Former governor to be honored as Great Westerner By The Associated Press Former Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr., who presided during the state's oil and gas boom years and left office after a stunning primary defeat, will be inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City next month. Briscoe, governor from 1973 to 1979, will be honored at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City on April 17. Others being inducted are Wina Rae Calhoon, a pioneer teacher and minister, and Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, a mountain man, guide and fur trader. Briscoe was elected...

Tourists may blow in along windy trail BY P. CHRISTINE SMITH AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Coy Harris hopes travelers taking in the sights along the newly planned 600-mile Power of the Wind Trail will end up in Lubbock. Harris is executive director of the American Wind Power Center, 1701 Canyon Lakes Drive, one destination on the trail that stretches from Lubbock into Oklahoma. John Armour of the Lubbock Convention and Visitors Bureau took the suggestion of a colleague and ran with it. He has spearheaded the development of the trail along with representatives of at least seven cities across the region. "This is...

Deathbed Confession Links Sadaam Hussein to the Oklahoma City Bombing "Deathbed" Confession Transcript -- World Exclusive Posted April 19, 2002 The following interview with ELMINA ABDUL, widow of EDWIN ANGELES, one of the cofounders of the ABU SAYYAF GROUP (ASG), and deep cover agent for the Defense Intelligence Group (DIG) of the Department of National Defense (DND), of the Republic of the Philippines, was taken on March 10, 2002, in the presence of CHRISTOPHER M. PUNO, Information Officer of the Province of Basilan, at BASCOM Hospital, in the general ward. TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH ELMINA ABDUL, WIDOW TO EDWIN...

HOMELAND INSECURITY Freeh: 'Right-wing groups' bigger threat Clinton FBI chief's counterterror focus to be probed at 9-11 hearing Posted: October 7, 2002 4:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – As WorldNetDaily first reported Friday , former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who has been criticized for refocusing counterterrorism efforts on "right-wing groups," will headline tomorrow's Senate hearings probing Sept. 11 failures. CIA Director George Tenet, another Clinton appointee, is scheduled to testify in Thursday's hearing, jointly held by the Senate and House intelligence committees, a House Intelligence Committee aide said today. This week's witness schedule has not...

The Wall Street Journal has added its voice to those - in and out of government - who have concluded the circumstantial evidence linking Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1993 first World Trade Center bombing, as well as the 9-11 attacks, is overwhelming. Former CIA Director James Woolsey also expresses skepticism that Timothy McVeigh, executed for the Oklahoma City bombing, and his accomplice Terry Nichols, sentenced to life in prison and awaiting further trial on murder charges, could have planned and executed this monstrous crime all by themselves. Woolsey believes the work of persistent investigators,...

I witnessed with some interest the ample coverage of the OK City bombing anniversary - a terrorist act - the other day. I can't get myself to ever watch the Networks news but the cable newsies are sometimes on in our house. They all - Fox, MSNBC, CNN - carried hour-long or longer shows featuring the dead's relatives, describing their grief, etc., etc. However, none of them, not even the beloved Fox, didn't bother to allocate even ONE MINUTE to the victims of government-sponsored terror, burned at Waco on the same day, three years before OK city. These people have...