America's Shame

On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City was bombed. One hundred and sixty eight people were killed and over five-hundred were injured. The bombing was an act of terrorism beyond anything that the United States had ever seen. It happened in Oklahoma City and affected people throughout the world. The act was despicable and was an act against all of America. For that reason, alone, the truth must be found. For those who died and those who survived, the truth must be told. Knowing the facts surrounding this diabolical act and the egregious cover-up that was and still is being engaged in by the United States government leaves us no other alternative than to insist upon accountability and justice. We hope that as the truth unfolds you will join us in demanding that the truth be told. QUOTES FROM THOSE WHO KNOW "As I will now make clear, there was indeed a John Doe #2.I knew it from an unimpeachable source. Tim McVeigh." (from Stephen Jones) "The prosecutors, I don't know how them people can live with themselves because of the lying that they do," James Nichols told KCNC-TV in Denver. "Don't they have a conscience? They stand up there and lie and tell lies and tell stories right in court and get caught and don't even get embarrassed by it." (from James Nichols, brother of Terry Nichols) And David Schippers, counsel for the House-led impeachment effort against former President Clinton, also says he believes there is a Middle East connection to the bombing. "I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing," he told TalkNetDaily host Geoff Metcalf during an Oct. 21, 2001, interview. "I think bin Laden was behind it. I think that there were Middle Eastern people on the scene running away." "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." The suit says that prior to the Gulf War, "Iraq had developed a covert network in the United States to acquire materials for weapons of mass destruction." After the war, the suit alleges, "Iraq converted that network into organized terrorist cells," some of which "were directly involved in" the OKC bombing. Additional evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals Interpol's efforts to apprehend two additional Oklahoma City bombing suspects and information in the agency's files associating Youssef with the attack, Judicial Watch said. "It's time the whole story about the Oklahoma City bombing is revealed and that justice is done for the Iraqis' state sponsorship of that brutal attack on American citizens," Klayman said. "Judicial Watch and its clients contend that other individuals, in addition to Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were involved in the preparation for and execution of the attack on the Murrah Building," said a statement issued by the group. "These individuals were operating as agents of the Republic of Iraq. …" But according to the suit, plaintiffs say the OKC bombing "was an illegal continuation of the Persian Gulf War," and that they and their loved ones "are … civilian casualties of [the] Gulf War. …" "Plaintiffs further assert that the involvement and complicity of Iraq can be proven by both direct and circumstantial evidence," the suit alleges. "Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially, and directly aided by agents of the Republic of Iraq," said the suit, filed by public interest law firm Judicial Watch. And so the questions remain, even amid all the talk that the conviction and death sentence of Timothy J. McVeigh have achieved some measure of 'closure' for victims, their traumatized families and an outraged American public. They linger even after seven weeks of trial, dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pounds of physical evidence, all of which added up to an overwhelming case against McVeigh. Did anyone help him assemble the materials for the huge bomb that took 168 lives? Did anyone help him build it, and, if so, where did they do it? If there was an even broader conspiracy, who was involved? In deciding Friday that McVeigh should die, the U.S. District Court jury did not heed the plea of his lawyer, Stephen Jones, that the execution of McVeigh might somehow prevent the full truth about the tragedy in Oklahoma City from ever being known. In veiled language, Jones hinted at a broader plot 'The chapter--the book of the Oklahoma City bombing--is not closed...' " --The New York Times, June 15, 1997 "I think a decision was made early on that McVeigh and Nichols were the ones they were looking for.... The same resources were not used to try and find out who else might be responsible." --Niki Deutchman, juror in the trial of Terry Nichols "[Juror Linda Morgan] did not believe McVeigh and Nichols would have left such an obvious trail of evidence in their alleged plot. 'It was like "dumb and dumber",' she said, "and I know that they weren't dumb.'" --The Daily Oklahoman, January 9, 1998 "During Nichols' trial, nearly two dozen defense witnesses offered various descriptions of other people who were said to be in the company of McVeigh at key places or times in the days before the bombing. None matched Nichols' description." --USA Today, January 9, 1998 "There is a case here with people who have information about prior knowledge [of the bombing] and other perpetrators." --Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key " 'I am glad someone is going to start looking into the investigation the federal jury never got into,' [Oklahoma lawyer Mark Sanford] said. 'Maybe we will get some answers. We know there is a John Doe No. 2. We have to get everybody who participated. They all have to be punished for what they did.' " --The New York Times, June 15, 1997 "Once the eyes oftruth have been opened, they can never be closed again!"(Carol Howe, Federal Informant) "Another Oklahoma City could happen tomorrow." --Robert Blitzer, head of the FBI's terrorism section © 2003 Citizens Against Hate All Rights Reserved