June 1, 2003, Vanity Fair
“I’m frankly stupefied that we haven’t seen a more rigorous effort made to look at some of that evidence, whether it’s about the first World Trade Center attack … whether it’s about the Oklahoma City bombing … or whether it’s 9/11. I think there’s more there than has met the eye so far.”
Frank Gaffney, president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, December 13, 2002, in News Max
Last November 17th, Indianapolis Star writer James Patterson wrote a story on the Davis-Vogel-OKC-Ashcroft developments that was picked up nationally by the Associated Press. In the article, entitled "Missing evidence from Oklahoma City," Patterson wrote: "The FBI doesn’t want to talk about it, but the evidence keeps mounting. Critical evidence that several Middle Eastern men may have been connected to the Oklahoma City bombing appears to have been kept from the public by the FBI."
"Officially, the FBI has dismissed the possibility of a John Doe No. 2, an olive-skinned man whose sketch they released immediately after the bombing, or other suspects," said Patterson. "But current and former FBI agents in Oklahoma City say they received documents pointing to another person or even a cell of Middle Eastern operatives. At a minimum, Congress should question one former FBI agent who says he obtained 22 affidavits and more than 30 witness statements describing sightings of Middle Easterners with McVeigh."
The Star article states that FBI "agents believe if that evidence had not been suppressed by the FBI, it could have helped uncover plans leading to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon." Patterson quotes an unnamed former FBI agent as stating: "We did have some Oklahoma connections to the events in Washington, D.C., and New York City. We did find out that one of these individuals was trying to take flight training at a Norman [Okla.] flight instruction school."
from Current News
"I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing. I think bin Laden was behind it. I think that there were Middle Eastern people on the scene running away."
David Schippers, counsel for the House-led impeachment effort against former President Clinton in an October 21, 2001, interview with Geoff Metcalf.
A former State Department anti-terrorism prober now claims that a missing suspect in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing is a former Iraqi soldier who later secured a job at Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9-11 hijackers boarded planes they later commandeered and slammed into the World Trade Center. "Larry Johnson, the former deputy director of the State Department's office on counterterrorism, told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Tuesday that the paths of 9-11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Zacarias Moussaoui crossed on more than one occasion with that of John Doe No. 2, the name given to the man witnesses say helped Timothy McVeigh carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
The FBI was so convinced of the importance of John Doe No. 2 that it even distributed police sketches in an effort to track him down.
"He was seen with Timothy McVeigh three days before the bombing, the morning of the bombing, and he was seen by one of the witnesses getting out of the Ryder truck after it pulled up in front of the Murrah building," the ex-State Department official explained.
Johnson, along with a growing contingent of independent probers, believes that John Doe No. 2 is actually Hussain Hashim Alhussaini, a former member of Iraq's elite Republican Guard.
"The thing that really concerns me relative to 9-11 [is that] when he left Oklahoma around 1996 and 1997, he went to work at Logan Airport in Boston," Johnson told O'Reilly. "We don't know where he is now."
NewsMax, May 7, 2002.
"Most of the insults are meritless and quite often absurd, so I don't pay them much attention," wrote McVeigh. "Hitler? Absurd. (Geraldo Rivera uses this same analogy, so Keating and Ashcroft are in good company!) Coward? This label would make Orwell proud – it is double think at its finest. Collateral Damage? As an American news junkie; a military man; and a Gulf War veteran, where do they think I learned that? (It sure as hell wasn't Osama Bin Laden!)"
"For all else, I would refer you to my enclosed paper 'Hypocrisy,' and to Ramzi Yousef's statement to the court just prior to his sentencing. I filter all labels and insults thusly."
The cited Ramzi Yosef statement: ["Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government,"] before being sentenced to 240 years in jail. Timothy McVeigh responding to questions of FNC's Rita Cosby.
"The theory stems from a never-before-reported allegation that McVeigh had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers. Why haven't we heard this before about the case of the executed McVeigh? Conspiracy theorists in the Pentagon think it's part of a cover-up."
Oklahoma Representative, Charles Key
"O'REILLY: All right, now, Jayna Davis, the investigative reporter from Oklahoma City who we interviewed here on "The Factor," said that [McVeigh's partner] Terry Nichols went to the Philippines a number of times and met with Osama bin Laden's group. The group gave them money and perhaps technical expertise, as you're talking about. Did you follow that angle up?
JONES: We did. In fact, actually, we were the first ones to do that and Jayna was very resourceful and she tried to follow it for her television station in Oklahoma City. But there simply weren't enough resources.
But Jones said lack of resources wasn't the only problem:
"The government was sufficiently concerned about what we were doing out in the Philippines and the help we were getting from the Philippines government that one of the prosecutors went out there with an FBI agent from Japan to shut us down."
May 7, 2001, Bill O'Reilly interview of Stephen Jones, McVeigh's defense attorney.
"On March 20, 2001, Fox TV’s Bill O’Reilly interviewed Jayna Davis, providing the first major national coverage of her OKC-Mideast research. Subsequently, Mr. O’Reilly has focused his program, "The O’Reilly Factor," on a related aspect of the OKC-Mideast connection, achieving some very positive results. His September 26th broadcast entitled "What is Going On at the University of South Florida?" asked some piercing questions of USF Professor Sami Al-Arian and his connections to the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. We had asked similar questions in a detailed article ("America the Vulnerable," September 14, 1998) about Al-Arian, Ramadan Shallah, Khalil Shikaki, and others at USF connected to Islamic Jihad and Hamas. That article pointed out that Al-Arian and company were operating through USF-affiliated "think tanks" such as the World Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) and the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP) to give terrorist leaders access to the U.S. and to radicalize American Muslims for recruitment into the extremist networks. We noted therein that an ICP/WISE speaker, Kamal Helbawi, a Hamas leader based in Pakistan, was one of several militants who had addressed Muslims in a very inflammatory speech at a conference in Oklahoma City.
"Oklahoma City has played host to other leaders associated with Hamas, ICP, WISE, and other suspected terrorist fronts," we reported. "And evidence developed by this magazine and other investigators indicates that locally based and foreign individuals associated with these long-established terrorist networks were involved in the April 19, 1995 bombing. Unless officials are pressured to conduct an honest and thorough investigation, more atrocities and tragedies are sure to follow."
by William F. Jaspper, Current News
"In the Philippines as part of 'Project Bojinka,' Ramzi Youssef, on behalf of Iraq, recruited conspirators to attempt to simultaneously bomb U.S. 747 aircraft over the Pacific," the suit alleges. Delayed timers "with many similarities" to the Pam Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 were to be used, said the suit.
"Youssef also conceived of plans to highjack planes bound for the United States in order to dive them, in suicide attacks, into U.S. targets like CIA headquarters … a tactic later adopted by [al-Qaida terrorist group founder] Osama bin Laden," the suit said.
"Plaintiffs assert that at some point … Youssef recruited a willing convert in the person of Terry Nichols, who witnesses say went to the Philippines seeking technical help in learning to build a bomb," said the suit. "Meetings between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef were witnessed by a Filipino government informant."
From the Civil Lawsuit filed against Iraq by the bombing victims, as reported on World Net Daily
Investigative journalist Jayna Davis, formerly of KFOR in Oklahoma City, told host Bill O'Reilly that she had gathered information showing that bin Laden funded the bombing conspiracy, that Nichols had terrorist ties in the Philippines, and that an Iraqi Republican Guard member accompanied McVeigh and Nichols on the day of the bombing.
When she tried to present her information, an FBI agent in Oklahoma City seemed ready to accept it - but refused after calling a superior in Denver, Davis said.
Why would the FBI refuse even to consider such evidence - or any evidence - in this top-priority case?
"Their reasons, their motivations, that's a matter for the Department of Justice and the former attorney general," Davis said.
March 20, 2001, NewsMax
"Davis said federal authorities investigating the bombing decided early on in the probe that the blast was the result of a domestic conspiracy, not a foreign one, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after.
An all-points bulletin was issued for this suspect, but was later withdrawn inexplicably.
Davis said her evidence indicates a conspiracy involving McVeigh, Nichols and at least seven men of Middle Eastern ethnic background. She called bin Laden the mastermind of the conspiracy.
From World Net Daily
Consider these facts:
• An FBI All Points Bulletin was issued shortly after the blast for all law enforcement to be on the lookout for a late model Chevrolet pickup "occupied by Middle Eastern subjects" seen fleeing the blast area "at a high rate of speed."
• At least four witnesses have attested to seeing young men of apparent Middle Eastern appearance in front of, or in the immediate vicinity of, the Murrah Building before and right after the explosion acting in a suspicious manner.
• A confidential informant for the federal government, who was on record prior to the bombing warning of a conspiracy — of which he was a member — involving Middle Eastern and domestic terrorists to blow up federal buildings, has provided important, detailed information about the OKC attack.
• On April 19, 1995, the head of Saudi Arabia’s Intelligence Service called the CIA’s former chief of Counterterrorism Operations to report that Saddam Hussein had hired seven Pakistani terrorists (Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the World Trade Center bombing, is Pakistani) to bomb targets in the U.S., one of which was the Murrah Building.
• Prior to the Oklahoma bombing, there was no record of any domestic terrorists detonating an explosive of the size ascribed to the Ryder truck bomb, but many foreign and domestic experts on terrorism have noted the Mideast "signature" of the truck bomb.
• There is a superabundance of evidence of neo-Nazi operatives in Europe and the U.S. collaborating with Arab and other Middle Eastern terrorists, or acting under the direction of the Soviet KGB and its surrogate services in Eastern Europe.
• Before being cowed into silence, elected officials and terrorist experts had pointed out that militant leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad had addressed a radical Islamic conference in Oklahoma City, and that the militants’ statements had been recorded in a PBS documentary.
William F. Jasper, The New American
vindicated. Recent releases of information linking Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to the neo-Nazi, white - supremacist movement, as well as the Jayna Davis investigation into the Middle East connection of the two domestic terrorists, have solidified the claims that the FBI and federal law enforcement officials engaged in mishandling of evidence at best or suppressing and covering up valuable information at worst. Whichever scenario fits, the end result has been perhaps the greatest miscarriage of justice the world has ever witnessed. The explosion was heard miles away. The deaths and carnage will never be forgotten. The once peaceful and laid-back community of Oklahoma City was thrown into a war-zone atmosphere at 9:02, April
19th, 1995. People in the area stood in shock and disbelief while Americans watched the horror unfold on national television. The initial reaction was that it was a terrorist attack, probably from the Middle-East. Eye-witnesses provided a description of a Middle-Eastern man at the scene. Later we were told that it had, in fact, been the act of two disgruntled Americans - domestic terrorists! For the most part, we bought it. As the FBI built their case against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the American people picked up the pieces and moved on believing that the government had everything under control and that justice would, indeed, be served. And, oh how naive the American people were.The mere idea that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols carried out an act which resulted in such devastation all by themselves is incongruous to most thinking individuals. McVeigh's expertise was in the area of firearms, not explosives. Nichols attended one semester of college where he garnered a "C" in chemistry and had no formal training in explosive devices. Additionally, we now know that there were other bombs planted on the columns of the Murrah Building when the Ryder truck exploded. There is also compelling evidence that at least one of the other bombs exploded just before the truck bomb:
"Dr. Raymond L. Brown at the University of Oklahoma geology school had a seismographic machine that showed two separate explosions: one of them was more of an air blast and the other traveled through the ground. The other one was probably the one that came through the columns of the building, which were
either wrapped [with explosives] or drilled."V.Z. Lawton, survivor.
"There’s an awful lot of speculation as to the relationship between the two bombs, but we know that they had demolition charges in the building. All of them didn’t go off. If you study the way the building collapsed and the damage that was done, there is just no way that the bomb out front could have done the damage. There are two problems: it couldn’t have done it, because of the asymmetry, from the single point of initiation. And the reach of the truck bomb in the street in taking out these big columns of the building is just technically impossible.
If you look at the profile of the truck alone, the only structural damage to the building that the truck bomb could have done would have only ripped out a little of the flooring in the building closest to the truck. It could not have been lethal to the columns inside the building."
General Ben Parton from his report to the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee
Immediately following the bombing, witnesses reported two men of Middle-Eastern origin jumping into a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck with a bug guard and speeding wildly away from the scene. The Federal Bureau of Investigation immediately put out the following APB on that truck:
"Be on the lookout for a late model, almost new, Chevrolet, full-size pickup. It will be brown in color with tinted windows, smoke-colored bug deflector on the front of pickup … middle eastern male, 25 to 28 years of age, six feet tall, athletic build, dark hair and a beard.... driver of the vehicle was not identified. Subjects were last seen heading north on Walker at a high rate of speed.... Authorization FBI."
"Special Agent Henry C. Gibbons, in a signed affdavit, relayed the testimony of one witness claiming that there was another man driving the truck who was not seen. Later on the day of the bombing, at 2:28 PM, this APB was issued by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol:
Attempt to locate possible suspects and vehicle involved in bombing Oklahoma City 04/19/95 0900 hrs.... Use extreme caution … Stop and check all vehicles matching the following description: Blue small to medium size GM product possible Chevrolet Cavalier or Blazer. Vehicle may be a rental car from National Car Rental Systems DFW [Dallas-Fort Worth] Texas.
Possible tag of PTF54F Texas. Suspect information: Occupied by Middle Eastern male subject or subjects....Later that day, in a yet to be explained move, the FBI pulled the APB yet the Dallas Morning News reported that at approximately midnight on April 19, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seizing several duffel bags and boxes and that three Middle Eastern men were questioned in connection with the apartment search. It was further reported that these men had been using a rented Chevrolet Blazer or Suburban rented by one of the individuals who was from Lahore, Pakistan. No explanation has ever been given. Yet, according to a report by The New American:
"Nothing more was ever reported concerning the men, the search, or the vehicles. But on the following day, April 20th, Special Agent Gibbons’ affidavit on the Middle East suspects was sworn before U.S. Judge Ronald L. Howland seeking a warrant to detain one Abraham Ahmad, who had left Oklahoma City for Amman, Jordan less than two hours after the bombing. "At approximately 10:43 a.m. on April 19, 1995, an American Airlines flight left Oklahoma City en route to Chicago, Illinois," says the Gibbons affidavit. "Aboard that flight was Abraham Abdallah Ahmed [sic]. Ahmed was scheduled to fly from Chicago to Rome, Italy and finally to Jordan." However, American Airlines personnel in Oklahoma City thought that Ahmad was "acting nervous" and called the airline’s national security office. Ahmad was interviewed by the FBI in Chicago, while his luggage continued on a connecting flight to Rome, where it was searched by Italian officials. They discovered, said the FBI affidavit, "a) multiple car radios; b) a substantial quantity of shielded and unshielded wire; c) a small tool kit and other tools, consistent with use for both explosive devices and normal electronic repair or installation; d) blue jogging pants...." Agent Gibbons’ affidavit, remember, described the suspects as wearing blue jogging pants. But before the Italian search had been conducted, Ahmad had concluded his FBI interview in Chicago and had booked a new flight to London."
Ahmad is one of many suspects in the bombing case. In 1990, a young Puerto Rican man who had been in much trouble with the law, moved to South Florida and got a
job at an area Taco Bell. This young man was Jose Padilla - no relation the ex-wife of Terry Nichols. Jose Padilla became interested in the Islamic community which is sizable in the Fort Lauderdale area. He began inquiring about converting to the Islamic faith. During that time frame, 1992-93, Adham Hassoun was handling the registration of the Benevolence International Foundation in Plantation, Florida, only five minutes away from where Padilla worked. The Foundation is an Islamic charity which has been indicted by the government for funding terrorist activity. Haussoun, a Palestinian, was quite popular in the Islamic community, but according to CBS news, the U.S. government has tied him to Al Qaeda, and he is currently being held in custody for being an al Qaeda operative in a U.S. based network of Middle-Eastern terrorists. It is reported that he was instrumental in assisting Padilla's conversion to Islam.Also in South Florida during this time frame was Timothy McVeigh. On an extended visit to his sister, who lived in Plantation, Florida, McVeigh was just a few blocks away from Padilla's place of employment - Taco Bell. McVeigh's penchant for Taco Bell burrito's has been well chronicled as he was awaiting trial in Denver, Colorado. He was held in the basement of the Federal Courthouse in Denver, and was given an allotment for food - much of that allotment was spent on Taco Bell.
Several witnesses, after the bombing, claim to have seen McVeigh in the company of a young Hispanic male. As Padilla's name kept surfacing, his picture was placed next to the composite drawing done by the FBI - an uncanny likeness that is almost chilling.
Jose Padilla & John Doe #2 as seen at glennbeck.com
Jose Padilla converted to Islam in 1994, and changed his name to Ibrahim. He did this during a time when al Qaeda was recruiting United States citizens in the South Florida area for the purpose of obtaining clean or "lily white" passports. Two of those most noted "recruits" were Zacharias Moussaoui, the reported "20th highjacker" in the September 11th attacks, and Richard Reid the infamous "shoe bomber." Padillo married in 1994, quit his job and studied Islam. By all accounts, even though Jose was unemployed, money seemed to be no problem for he and his bride.
For about six months before the bombing, Padilla seemed to drop completely out of sight. He was well known for excessive traffic violations and incurred tickets regularly - "almost like clockwork" as one reporter put it. Eventually, his license was suspended. But, during the period from December 28, 1994 through June 9, 1995, Padilla received no citations, then he was back on his "like clockwork routine." While the FBI made no connection between Padilla and the Oklahoma City bombing, several people have identified him as being with Timothy McVeigh. And there are many who believe he played a role in the events of April 9th.
Padilla traveled to Pakistan and changed his name once more - it is now, Abdullah al-Muhajir. This worked well for Padilla as he ingratiated himself into the higher echelons of al Qaeda. The lieutenant in charge of Padilla was Abu Zubayda, a top al Qaeda planner. But, perhaps the most notable of those who Padilla reported to was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - the mastermind behind the attacks of September 11th. Jose Padilla is currently being held "indefinitely" by the Bush administration, in a military prison for plotting to build and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" in the United States.
While South Florida has long been fertile ground for al Qaeda operatives, perhaps the most well known area for
Middle-East terrorist "think tanks" is the island of Mendanao in the Philippines. In or around September 1994, Ramzi Yosef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed arrived in Mendanao for the purpose of launching project "Bojinka." Ramzi Yosef was the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. It should be noted that the 1993 bombing was dramatically similar to the OKC bombing. Both bombs were massive fertilizer bombs. Both were delivered in Ryder trucks rented in adjoining states and both were detonated at times that would inflict the most casualties.Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the third in command of
al Qaeda. He is purported to be the organizer of the September 11th attacks. It has also been reported that he, personally, slit the throat of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter. A hardline, Islamic fundamentalist, Kahlid had attended college in North Carolina while building a dossier on American life for the purpose of reaping terror on the United States in the future. It has been reported that the presence of Khalid and Yosef as well as Hakim Abdul Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah in Mendanao is reported to have been ordered by Osama bin Laden. Murad is a piolt who trained in at least four United States flight schools while Shah fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.Project Bojinka was an elaborate plot to bring the American government to its knees. Yosef was first to recruit conspirators on behalf of Iraq for the eventual and simultaneous bombing of 12 airliners, en route to the U.S., over the Pacific Ocean. While this was taking place, suicide bombers would highjack planes bound for the U.S. and fly them into key American buildings such as the Pentagon, CIA Headquaters and the World Trade Center. It is now believed that Terry Nichols was one of those recruits. Project Bojinka was scheduled to occur on January 21, 1995.
In a lawsuit filed by some of the Oklahoma Bombing survivors against the Iraqi government, the following charges have been made and hence substantiated through a Filipino Government informant and FBI documents:
1)Terry Nichols took numerous trips to the Philippines between 1990 and 1994 - sometimes with his wife and sometimes alone.
2)On November 22, 1994, Terry Lynn Nichols boarded a plane for Cebu City. Before leaving, however, he left behind a note only to be opened in the event of his death. That note specified instructions that all money and valuables were to be sent to his wife, Marife. It also left instructions for Timothy McVeigh on how to obtain the ammonium nitrate that he had left in a storage locker and a cryptic message saying "Go for it! As far as heat, none that I am aware of." Apparently, Nichols felt there was a chance he might not return.
3)Southwest College in Cebu City was a favorite recruiting ground for Ramzi Yosef. He made many recruiting trips to the campus of that college. Terry Nichols wife, Marife was attending that college when
Terry Nichols arrived in 1994. Ramzi Yosef hid out for awhile in a boarding house close to the college campus. On Nichols return to the United States, his wife moved into the same boarding house.4)Filipino informant, Edwin Angeles placed Terry Nichols at a meeting during this time with the terrorists. According to Angeles, the meeting concentrated on bombs and bomb making. Nichols was also seen with Ramzi at other times.
5)The Bojinka project was slated for January 21, 1995. The last day of Terry Nichols visa was January 21, 1995.
6)On January 6, 1995, Yosef and Murad were building one of the bombs to be used when a fire broke out in Yosef's apartment. They fled the apartment and the Fire Department extinguished the blaze. The authorities, however, managed to arrest Murad who attempted to retrieve a laptop computer from the dwelling the next day. Project Bojinka was tabled and Yosef and Nichols quickly left the Philippines.
7)From January 31st to March 14, 1995, Terry Nichols made numerous calls to the Philippines after his wife had already returned to the United States. According to the complaint filed by OKC bombing victims, Terry Nichols made 13 calls to "untracebale" Philippine numbers. Sometimes he called the boarding house near the college, sometimes he placed calls to pay phones. But, perhaps the most damning of all is the fact that he placed these calls on a calling card under the name of Daryl Bridges, a fictitious name that was used be he and McVeigh to conduct business having to do with the impending Murrah Building bombing.
8)On April 19, 1995, after the OKC bombing, Abdul Hakim Murad, who was being held in jail in New York awaiting trial for his part in the Bojinka project, admitted verbally and in writing that Ramzi Yosef's entourage was responsible for the act.
9)In a death bed statement posted by the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee, Elmina Abdul, widow of Edwin Angeles, the Filipino informant who placed Nichols with the terrorists, sought to tell the truth as she knew it. Her statement was given to Dorian Zumel Sicat, a News Correspondent for the Omega News Service, and was witnessed by, Christopher M. Puno on March 10, 2002. Information Officer of the Province of Basilan. Here, in part, is her statement:
DZS: Can I ask you about some things that happened back in the mid-90s? 1993, 1994? EA: Yes. I will try to answer what you ask.
DZS: Did he ever talk to you about meetings with Arabs or Americans?EA: Yes, once he had met with some Arabs and Americans in 1994, in Davao (City), or General Santos (City).
DZS: Did he tell you who they were?
EA: Does the name Ramsey Yousef mean something to you Mr. Sicat?
DZS: Ahmad Hassim. Does that mean something to you?
EA: He had met with them. And an American who he called Terry or the Farmer, and another American whom he did not name.
DZS: Was the American he named as Terry, Terry Nichols?
EA: He did not mention the surname. Only Terry.
DZS: Did he tell you why and how many times they had met?
EA: They met almost every day for one week. They met in an empty bodega (warehouse). They talked about bombings. They mentioned bombing government buildings in San Francisco, Saint Louis and in Oklahoma. The Americans wanted instructions how to make and to explode bombs. He (Edwin) told me that Janjalani was very interested in paying them much money to explode the buildings. The money was coming from Yousef and the other Arab.
DZS: Did he tell you when the bombs would explode; when they exploded?
EA: He told me that the Americans exploded one bomb in Oklahoma in 1995, after he was arrested and after we first met.
DZS: Did he ever tell you who was supplying the money for the bombing of the building, I mean who Yousef was working with or for?
EA: Mr. Sicat, you are the mediaman. Do you not know that Yousef was representing Iraq and Saddam Hussein? Do you not know that?
Edwin Angeles had been assassinated by unknown assailants in 1998.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of all of these things. In fact, Murad's admission of Middle-East involvement was referenced as a "302 Report" in a McVeigh Writ of Mandamus petition. The report was sealed and apparently never acted upon. Additionally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the United States government was warned well in advance that the bombing was imminent. Additionally, immediately following the bombing, a large number of witnesses came forward either placing Middle-Eastern men at the bomb site or with McVeigh prior to the bombing. Local news reporters, Jayna Davis and Brad Edwards, relentlessly tried to prove the Middle-Eastern connection. Jayna Davis eventually left her position with KFOR News in pursuit of what she knew to be the truth. She has since become one of the most sought after people when seeking the definitive bottom line on the Mid-East connection.
Davis' tenacious investigation has focused largely upon Timothy McVeigh and those having been seen with him prior to the bombing. One man surfaces as the key to the McVeigh, Mid-East connection - Hussain Hashem Alhussaini. Alhussaini, a former Iraqi soldier who came to the United States under political asylum following the Gulf War, was witnessed by at least 23 people either with McVeigh, or in proximity to the bombing. Former CIA Agent Johnson, now a believer in the Middle-East connection, put it this way:
"I compared it to all the human intelligence I've looked at," he said. "And comparing it to classified material, this is not from just one witness, this is not from two witnesses; you're talking 23 people, you're talking at least 10 people who put Tim McVeigh with Hussain Alhussaini before the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Two people who identified Hussain Alhussaini and Tim McVeigh in a bar on April 15; three people who identified Hussain Alhussaini running from the federal building early in the morning at 5:30 as if he is practicing timing himself. You have two witnesses that put Tim McVeigh with Hussain Alhussaini in the Ryder truck; you have one witness inside the Murrah Building who sees Hussain Alhussaini eating out of the truck . . .
"The point is the FBI has not thoroughly, fully investigated this. It is an outrage. I went along for many years thinking they have covered the bases. They have not."
In spite of eight years of dedication and investigation, the FBI continues to refuse to look at Jayna Davis' findings. In fact, it wasn't until these recent findings surface that many in authority were listening. Recently, however, a dew Senior Senators have agreed to look into what Davis has presented.
With each turn of the page, it becomes more and more clear that once the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were made, the government closed the door on other possible conspirators. Seeking to wrap up the case and claim an early victory in what, at that time, was the most devastating act of terrorism on American soil - their rush to judgment might very well have been a very costly mistake. The reasoning or rationale behind the refusal to bring all parties to justice is certainly open to speculation. The fact of the matter is, however, that regardless of the track that speculation may take, we still end up with too many loose ends - and those ends keep leading us to an ever larger act of terrorism on September 11th. While evidence has been mishandled and destroyed, witnesses memories have been dulled. But, the hearts of the American people yearn for truth and justice.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the United States government, have long been in possession of the evidence that we have presented here. There is little question in the minds and hearts of those in authority that a Middle-Eastern connection to the Oklahoma City bombing existed. Just as they have covered up the McVeigh connections to the world of the neo-Nazi's, they have sought to hide the undeniable connection to the Middle-East. Why? We would like the answer to that. The evidence continues to mount and with every new remnant or fact, the implications become more ominous. Considering that the April 19th, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building might have been a precursor to the devastating attacks of September 11th on our country, makes even more pressing the question, "How much did they know and could it have been avoided." The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing have not given up. As they pursue the legal avenues of the Civil Courts, so should Citizens Against Hate pursue the avenue of Congressional inquiry. Justice requires a vigilant citizenry - be vigilant and be active. Write your Congressman now.
