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A daylong legal drama over records hit a fever pitch in the newsroom of this newspaper Monday afternoon. An Oklahoma police investigator said he had been ordered by the Oklahoma County district attorney's office to remove 40 boxes of records from the newspaper, while local attorney Jerry McCombs and an Oklahoma City attorney, Gazette publisher Bruce Willingham and reporter J.D. Cash all told him no, he was not taking them. Meanwhile, a National Public Radio reporter who had come to Idabel to interview Cash and knew nothing of the controversy, got a firsthand look at how the Oklahoma City bombing...

WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The FBI and prosecutors ordered the destruction in 1999 of evidence from a bank robbery they once suspected linked Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to white supremacists who were threatening before McVeigh's bombing to attack the government, documents show. The evidence included a surveillance videotape of a bank robbery by some of the supremacists that occurred in Ohio five months before the bombing. The FBI lab compared the tape to pictures of McVeigh, but concluded a match was "inconclusive," internal memos show. The 1999 destruction order, obtained by The Associated...

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - Two federal law enforcement agencies had information before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing suggesting that white supremacists living nearby were considering an attack on government buildings, but the intelligence was never passed on to federal officials in the state, documents and interviews show. AP Photo   FBI (news - web sites) headquarters officials in Washington were so concerned that white separatists at the Elohim City compound in Muldrow, Okla., might lash out on April 19, 1995 — the day Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) did choose — that a month earlier they...

Oklahoma City bombing John Doe No. 2? Posted: November 9, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Notra Trulock © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com In 1995, the worst act of terrorism on American soil, prior to the 9/11 disaster, was committed in Oklahoma City. On April 19, terrorists blew up the Murrah Federal Building and killed 168 Americans and wounded scores more. Not long after the bombing, Timothy McVeigh was arrested about 60 miles east of Oklahoma City and a few days later Terry Nichols surrendered to police in Herrington, Kansas. With those arrests, the Justice Department shut down any further investigation into who...

I have meet with an interesting dilemma...I had a U-Haul rental truck reserved (with a confirmation number) for a month. Today, I received a telephone and told that I could not get a truck; that there were none available, even though I had a confirmation number guaranteeing me a truck for use on Saturday. The long and short of the matter is that I scrambled to find another truck. Well, it came as a shock to find there was not a single truck for rent in a 50 mile radius of my location. In fact, I check numerous places throughout...

<p>I think we're all convinced by now that George W. Bush has the cross hairs on Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>And it's clear from the latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll that the American public supports action against Saddam by a huge, huge margin: 75 percent for — 14 percent against. In electoral politics that's a landslide.</p>