The OKC Bombing thread: Surveillance Camera Footage

[Richard Booth]

Another thing:

If there truly were a middle east connection to the OKC bombing, John O'Neill would have been shouting about it. You never heard anything from him regarding Oklahoma City.

There is a journalist in OKC who puts McVeigh with a group of Iraqis living in Oklahoma. The big problem with that investigation is this reporter, Jayna Davis, never manages to form a narrative by which you have McVeigh, a neo-nazi, meeting the Iraqis. Where do neo-Nazi white supremacists meet Iraqi ex-soldiers? How does that look, where does that happen?

I can see some suspicious things in Terry Nichols' travels to the Philippines, to a place that had a lot of Islamic terrorists. He traveled to the same cities that Ramzi Yousef stayed it, he was there when Yousef had a meeting with Al-Qaida assets. But beyond speculation and innuendo, there isn't anything linking him firmly to Yousef. Sure, Nichols had a book in his luggage about making bombs, and sure, Ramzi Yousef quotes that book in his notes that were found at the bomb factory Yousef maintained and abandoned in the Philippines. But that's not a strong connection. So two mad bombers read the same book.

But if you ignore Nichols and his sojourns overseas, you find absolutely no place in which McVeigh would cross paths with middle easterners.

I've read the book on this -- 'The Third Terrorist' by Jayna Davis. It's awful, every single witness in her book has been RE-NAMED, she gives them fictitious names which is totally unheard of in non-fiction journalism. She also has reconstructed dialogue in the book which is dreadfully bad. Another thing, too, is the book suffers some kind of weird espionage fetish on behalf of the author: any time there is more than one piece of paper in a stack it becomes a 'dossier' -- that word appears in 'The Third Terrorist' about 30 times. A guy's medical records? A dossier. A stack of bus tickets? Dossier. Any time an FBI agent interviews someone, it's not an interview. It's a debriefing. Debrief appears in that book about 50 times too. It's beyond silly.

But the worst part about that book is that she's taken about 12 witnesses and changed what they said they saw. First, she gives the witness a phony name. But you can figure out who it is--if the guy is a 'mechanic' who 'gave directions to Timothy McVeigh' about 15 minutes before the blast, well, that's Mike Moroz. The problem is she has all these witnesses identifying a man with McVeigh who the witnesses allegedly said was "exotic and foreign", "dark skinned", "arabic looking" -- yet I have read all of these witnesses 302 reports and in some cases their court testimony and about 2/3rds of them never once said anything about the man seen with McVeigh being middle eastern. In fact, Mike Moroz said only that the man had darker skin than McVeigh, but 'could be any one of millions of people'. Others said the guy just had a 'tan' and was white. Yet others said he might have been mexican. Very few witnesses ever said they saw a middle eastern man with McVeigh, but Jayna Davis twists the testimony and puts words in witnesses' mouths.

I believe had there been any kind of Middle Eastern connection, John O'Neill would have said something about that.