[antimedia] antimedia: A reader asks....

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A reader asks....
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   ....

     Anything to the following?
     A WorldNetDaily.com article:
     It has only been eleven years and Congress is going to look into
     whether there was a foreign connection to the Oklahoma City bombing
     of the Murrah Building....Duhhh.
     How about these somewhat overlooked facts, to start with:
     1. More than twenty eyewitnesses ID'ed the photo of the third man
     in the Ryder truck as Hussein al Husseini, and Iraqi, and a former
     member of Unit 999 of the Iraqi Republican Guard who fought in
     Desert Storm. The FBI declined to talk to him.
     2. There is a large community of Iraqis living in OkCity.
     3. Terry Nichols was the explosives guy and he made about twenty
     trips to the Philippines to study explosives under Ramsay Youssef.
     Ramsay Youssef was the explosives guy behind the first World Trade
     Center bombing. R.Y. established Abu Sayyef in the P.I. Abu Sayyef
     is a splinter group of al-Qaida. R.Y. is now in United States
     custody. You can only wonder what he has talked about.
     4. The dust had not settled at the Murrah Building and people were
     still coming out of the rubble when the Bomb Squad came out with an
     unexploded charge that had been attached to a support column in the
     underground garage. It was Charge Number Two. Charge One had
     detonated six seconds after the Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil (ANFO)
     Truck Bomb went off. The University of Oklahoma seismic station
     reported two blips on the Richter Scale, about six seconds apart.
     TV station KFOR was on the scene talking to survivors and
     established that there were two explosions. That was on DAy One. It
     was never again mentioned. The official story was that it was Terry
     McVeigh getting even for the government's attack on the Branch
     Davidian's Compound one year to the day before. That's that.
     5. When the last body was recovered from the rubble, it was hauled
     away. Such a rush to clean up the site. Wouldn't want anybody from
     CSI looking for explosive residue other than ANFO.

   I've read, from time to time, that there were hints that the Iraqis
   were involved in the OKC bombing. I've always felt that those leads
   weren't pursued aggressively enough, for whatever reason.
   When I began investigating these claims, after receiving this email, I
   discovered that there is an active OKC bombing conspiracy community.
   (I won't dignify their claims with links.) I even discovered that
   there are some that believe Timothy McVeigh wasn't really executed --
   that he was a government agent, his execution was staged and he was
   paid a large sum of money to disappear. (Why a government that
   supposedly doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who has knowledge they
   don't want leaked would hesitate to kill McVeigh rather than paying
   him off is never explained.)
   Frankly, I don't have the energy to track down all the leads the
   conspiracy crowds throw out. I learned a long time ago that man is too
   corrupt, selfish and inept to maintain any large conspiracy for very
   long. It's simply impossible to keep a secret when two people know it,
   and the more people that know it, the harder it is to keep.
   Are there unanswered questions in many investigations? Of course there
   are. After all, even the investigators are humans and often have their
   own prejudices that lead them to their conclusions. But I'm satisified
   that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were involved in and
   perpetrated the OKC bombing.
   As to Iraqi involvement, I hope more work will be done on that angle
   and it will finally be resolved. But it won't be by me.