NOTE:
A correction -- The statement below that no federal agents were in the
building when it blew up is not true. There
were eight federal agents present
in the building who died, in addition to the 19 children, 160 victims total.
Despite
Timothy McVeigh's guilty verdict, numerous unanswered
questions about the murderous Oklahoma City bombing remain. Indeed, there are
so many unanswered questions, it is amazing that the prosecution was able to
secure a conviction at all.
So
pull up a front-row seat for the McVeigh lynching, folks, and contemplate a
few of the contradictions in the official account of the OKC bombing before
it all gets flushed down the memory hole. If this list doesn't make you
paranoid, you must be one of them!
[To
read the startling evidence which the jury was barred from hearing, be sure
to check out Timothy McVeigh's Writ of Mandamus, posted by TeamInfinity.com.]
1.
If the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City was
a terrorist reprisal for the Federal massacre of the Branch Davidians at
Waco, why were no BATF or FBI agents injured? Why was EVERY BADGE-CARRYING
FEDERAL AGENT absent from work at nine o'clock on a weekday morning, their
offices staffed only with civilian clerical workers?
2.
When the word first got out that no Federal agents had been present in the
building, the BATF produced its Resident Agent Alex McCauley who told a long
story about his own heroism and that of a fellow ATF man who allegedly fell
three floors in an elevator, walked away from it, and then helped rescue
others trapped by the bomb. This was quickly exposed as a fabrication in an
angry interview by building maintenance supervisor Duane James, who described
McCauley's story as "pure fantasy". James examined the elevator in
question and also the central control panel and pointed out a number of
technical and logical reasons why the miraculous elevator incident simply
couldn't have happened in the way claimed. The McCauley account was quietly
retracted and flushed down the memory hole by the ATF, with the help of the
media. They now admit that McCauley was nowhere near the building when the
bomb went off, although they refuse to discuss his exact whereabouts or the
whereabouts of any other ATF agent at the time of the explosion.
Will
BATF Agent Alex McCauley be disciplined for telling a self-serving lie which
falsely made himself out to be a hero? If that was not the purpose, why did
he make this palpably false public statement?
3.
Why was U.S. Judge Wayne Alley, whose office was located in the Federal
building, warned several weeks in advance in a Justice Department memo to be
prepared for an unnamed "terrorist act" directed against the
Federal building?
4.
Judge Alley made the above admission to the Portland Oregonian immediately
after the bombing. He has since refused to repeat it or allow himself to be
interviewed again. Why?
5.
Why did Ken Stern fax warnings to Federal judges and officials, legislators,
and prosecutors warning of a possible attack on a government building of
installation on the second anniversary of Waco on April 10th, 1995, nine days
before the OKC bombing?
6.
"Norma," a witness who worked in an office building just down the
street from the Federal building, told reporter Sherry Koonce what she saw
prior to the explosion: "The day was fine, everything was normal when I
arrived for work at about 7:45 a.m. There was some talk about the bomb squad
among the employees at our office. We wondered what it was doing in our
parking lot. Around nine I heard and felt a huge explosion. Then someone said
it had to be a bomb, and we all knew. I remembered the bomb squad in our
parking lot and knew what had happened."
"Norma"
has since quit her job, gone into hiding and refused to speak again to any
reporters or investigators. So have a number of other people who saw the
heavily armed and equipped bomb squad in the area up to three hours before
the blast. Why?
7.
Why did all mention of the facts outlined in questions 1 thru 6 disappeared
from the news media after the first week of coverage of the bombing? Why has
the media consistently suppressed and refused to report any information or
evidence which indicates that, at the very least and regardless of who was
responsible, there was Federal foreknowledge that the bombing would take
place?
8.
By definition, a terrorist must take credit for his violence, or else there
is no compelling reason to commit a crime. The specific purpose of terrorism
is to gain a political end through the credible threat to commit future acts
of violence. No one has claimed credit for the Oklahoma City bombing. Militia
and right-wing groups, the alleged masterminds and presumed beneficiaries,
have been particularly vehement in denouncing the explosion and in many cases
have cooperated directly with Federal agencies to absolve themselves of any
involvement. The only statement of alleged political motive comes from the
very government which was attacked. Why is this?
9.
Did the Alfred Murrah building warehouse documents relating to the attack on
the Branch Davidians at Waco? If so, what happened to those documents? Were
they destroyed? If so, were any copies kept elsewhere? If not, why not?
10.
Will the missing papers, if any, affect former Attorney General Ramsey
Clark's lawsuit against the ATF and FBI on behalf of the Branch Davidian
survivors?
11.
Why did the Director of the University of Oklahoma's Geological Survey, Dr.
Charles Mankin, tell the media that according to two different seismographic
records there were TWO blasts, the second approximately eight seconds after
the first?
12.
The news media initially reported that there were two explosions, based on
eyewitness testimony. Why did this version of events disappear from print and
the air waves within twenty-four hours?
13.
According to the prosecution, McVeigh used an ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel
Oil) bomb to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. McGyver makes it
look real easy on TV. But according to Department of the Army and Air Force
Technical Manual No. 9-1910, entitled Military Explosives, ANFO requires a
greater than 99% purity of ammonium nitrate, as well as a specific dryness,
before it can be mixed with diesel fuel to create an explosive substance. The
manual further spells out that even under ideal conditions (not often reached
even by experts) 4,800 pounds of ANFO explosive would create a much smaller
crater than the one left in front of the Murrah building, and its shock wave
could not possibly wield the force necessary to compromise the building's
concrete support structure. The FBI claims that the ANFO charge was made from
50 bags of fertilizer. Ammonium nitrate fertilizers comes in much weaker
concentrations than the 99%-plus required for explosives. Creating
concentrated amounts of ammonium nitrate is quite complex, and would require
many bags of fertilizer. In short, according to the government's own
textbook, the Oklahoma City bombing COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE WAY THE
FBI SAYS IT HAPPENED. IT IS A PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND THERMODYNAMIC
IMPOSSIBILITY. Why is the FBI lying?
14.
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, former commander of the
Air Force Armament Technology Laboratory, a 25-year expert in the design and
development of bombs, urged Senators and Congressmen to delay the destruction
of the Murrah building site. Partin stated in a news release, "When I
first saw the picture of the truck bomb's asymmetrical damage to the Federal
building in Oklahoma, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage
would have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition
charges at some of the reinforced concrete bases inside the building, a
standard demolition technique." Partin further explained that
"reinforced concrete targets in large buildings are hard targets to
blast. I know of no way possible to reproduce the apparent building damage
through simply a truck bomb effort." General Partin's request to have
the bomb site preserved in order to examine the possibility of a second
explosion was ignored by the government. And in fact, when the request was
made by General Partin, the government moved up the demolition by two weeks!
Why?
15.
General Partin's press release, quoted above, was reprinted in the John Birch
Society magazine New American. Based on this the news media launched an
egregious and bogus smear campaign against General Benton K. Partin, claiming
falsely that he was a member of the John Birch Society and therefore a
"right-wing extremist". [General Partin's report has been widely
circulated and reproduced, including an electronic version here on
ParaScope.] General Partin has been forced repeatedly to threaten lawsuits in
order to obtain grudging and deliberately downplayed retractions and
corrections of this allegation. His alleged JBS membership still appears in
print and broadcast media today as fact, even though the media are by now
perfectly well aware that the allegation is false. Why are the news media
telling a deliberate lie in order to discredit a highly respected expert who
questions the official government version of Oklahoma City?
16.
There have been repeated studies done by a variety of accredited explosives
experts and professional demolition contractors, such as former FBI agent Ted
Gunderson. All of these have stated their professional opinion that the
destruction of the Murrah building could only have been accomplished with
top-grade military explosives, detonators, and careful placement of multiple
charges. Why have the media ignored these expert opinions? Why, indeed, have
the media engaged in a concerted campaign to abuse, vilify, discredit and
marginalize as a "crank" or a "right-wing extremist" any
explosives expert or engineer who questions the official FBI version of the
bomb's construction and explosive power?
17.
There is not a single piece of concrete evidence to connect either Timothy
McVeigh or Terry Nichols to any militia or right-wing group. Why has the news
media refused to acknowledge this fact and continued to spread the patently
false assertion that McVeigh was a member of a militia group?
18.
Terry Nichols has been married twice, once to a Mexican woman and once to a
Filipina. Obviously, a man who marries women of color not once but twice and
has children with them can hardly be called a racist. Why has this fact,
which clearly precludes any racist or neo-Nazi involvement in the bombing of
the kind implied by the media, not been given any significant exposure at
all? And why has the media ignored connections between the Oklahoma City
bombing and the very real, very racist Elohim City compound in Arkansas, not
to mention Andreas Strassmeir, grandson of one of the founders of the Nazi
party in Germany?
19.
Having allegedly just committed a coldly calculated, carefully and
meticulously planned mass murder, why did Timothy McVeigh then suddenly turn
into a Clouseau-like klutz and do everything but send up a flare to draw
attention to himself? Why did he go speeding out of the state at almost 100
mph in a yellow car with no license plate, virtually guaranteeing that he
would be stopped?
20.
Timothy McVeigh is a highly trained combat NCO who won a Bronze Star for
courage under fire in the Gulf. Having been stopped by a state trooper, being
armed with a pistol, and knowing that he now faced either execution or
imprisonment for the rest of his natural life, why did McVeigh make no move
at all to defend himself or escape, instead surrendering like a little lamb?
21.
FBI agents are said to have tracked down McVeigh's truck rental agency by
finding a vehicle identification number (VIN) on the truck's rear axle. This
axle was found either in the bomb crater, according to the mayor of Oklahoma
City's initial press statement, or three blocks away according to the later
FBI version. Which statement is true?
22.
There is another problem to the Ryder truck tale. No rear axle on any vehicle
manufactured in America is imprinted with a VIN, even after recent
legislation forcing manufacturers to place multiple VINS on the engine,
firewall, and frame to discourage chop shops. When queried, a spokesman for
Ryder told reporters than it does not imprint additional VINS on its trucks.
The only conceivable number available on a rear axle is a part number, but a
part number couldn't lead to the identification of a specific vehicle. We
have here another case where the FBI version of events simply COULD NOT HAVE
HAPPENED in the way the Bureau claims it happened. Where did the VIN story
come from? Why has it been created and circulated by the media?
23.
Did McVeigh use fake I.D. or his real I.D. to rent the truck? The FBI has
relayed both stories as being true.
24.
The FBI detained and interrogated Timothy McVeigh's young sister Jennifer and
Terry Nichols' twelve year-old son. They announced in the media that both of
them were suspects and that Jennifer McVeigh was facing indictment and the
death penalty. These charges later vanished, and both young people were
released. While undergoing harsh FBI interrogation, Jennifer McVeigh was
exposed to projections of shocking, graphic images of bombing victims. What
is the story here?
25.
Who is John Doe Number Two? Does he exist at all? The FBI first conducted a
nationwide manhunt for JD-2 over a period of several weeks. Then they claimed
that a U.S. Army soldier on leave, whose published photographs bear no resemblance
whatsoever to the photofits, was JD-2. Then they claimed for some months that
JD-2 does not exist, and that all the witnesses who saw him were mistaken.
Now they are hedging again and say they have an "open mind" about
whether John Doe Number Two exists. What's the deal?
26.
In January of 1996, National Public Radio broadcast a half-hour special
containing interviews with half a dozen witnesses who personally saw John Doe
Number Two in the Ryder truck with Timothy McVeigh on the morning of the
bombing. These witnesses all had one thing in common; other than a cursory
preliminary interview by the FBI they had up until that time been approached
by neither the prosecution nor the defense to appear as witnesses at the
trial. Why not? Will any witnesses who saw John Doe Number Two be called to
testify?
27.
In the summer of 1995 a mysterious American named Daniel Spiegelman was
arrested in the Netherlands for trafficking in stolen diamonds and antiques.
In July of 1995 the Janet Reno Justice Department quietly applied for
Spiegelman's extradition to the United States IN CONNECTION WITH THE OKLAHOMA
CITY BOMBING. This was accompanied by representations at the highest level
demanding that the Netherlands courts hear the case in camera and that the proceedings
be kept completely secret.
Through
his attorney Spiegelman fought extradition, a Dutch judge refused to impose
secrecy on the hearing, the media got hold of it, and Janet Reno allegedly
withdrew the extradition request, whereupon the entire bizarre episode
vanished from public view. No more media blackout in the OKC case has been
more pervasive than the blackout imposed over the name of Daniel Spiegelman;
it is as if he has stepped off the face of the planet.
Who
is Daniel Spiegelman? What connection does he have with Oklahoma City? Is he
John Doe Number Two? Does he know who John Doe Number Two is?
28.
FBI informant and star witness Michael Fortier, who admits to trading his
testimony for lenient sentencing on gun charges himself, claims that he and
Timothy McVeigh scouted out the Murrah building several weeks in advance
looking for the BATF offices therein. If that is true, why did Timothy
McVeigh stop the Ryder truck at a gas station on the morning of the bombing
and ask directions to the building? And why did he park the truck on the side
of the building the farthest away from the BATF offices, when there was an
available parking lot which would have placed the truck bomb almost directly
under the seventh-floor windows of the BATF?
29.
Why was the reaction of the Clinton administration, blaming right-wing radio
talk shows for the incident and demanding the most draconian police state
legislation ever proposed in the United States, so swift and obviously
organized? The air of orchestration about the entire government response did
not escape notice even at the time, and was commented on by a number of
observers across the political spectrum.
A
blizzard of OKC-inspired "domestic terrorism" bills were rushed
into Congress in a matter of days, some of them pre-written and already
printed up BEFORE THE BOMBING. These proposed laws cover everything from
banning virtually all privately owned firearms to unlimited and
court-admissible Federal wiretaps to censorship of the Internet to the
suspension of habeas corpus in "terrorism" cases to the grotesque
destruction of the First Amendment advocated in Charles Schumer's bill H.R.
2580, which imposes a five-year prison sentence for publicly engaging in
"unseemly speculation" and publishing or transmitting by wire or
electronic means "baseless conspiracy theories regarding the Federal
government of the United States". Who decides what is a "baseless
conspiracy theory'? Why, the very same government, of course.
How
was a normally cumbersome, inefficient, and glacially slow legislative branch
able to move so quickly, so comprehensively, and so efficiently in
introducing these laws which will strip Americans of what remaining freedoms
they have?
30.
Why did it take so unconscionably long for the trial of Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols to begin?
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