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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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