Posted on 04/18/2002 9:55:55 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
An Oklahoma City attorney says he and others have gathered a "mountain" of evidence that implicates Iraq in both the Oklahoma City bombings and the Sept. 11 attacks.
"On the seventh anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, a number of the victims of the Murrah Building tragedy wish to begin the process of informing the American people of an ever-growing mountain of evidence implicating the state of Iraq," said John M. Johnston, in a statement to be released during a press conference in Oklahoma City on Friday – seven years to the day after the OKC bombing.
"Everyone knows what happened in Oklahoma City at the Alfred P. Murrah Building on April 19, 1995," Johnston said. "However, only a handful of people know that on that very day someone other than Tim McVeigh or Terry Nichols 'confessed' to being involved in the terrorist bombing plot that killed 168 people … ."
Johnston said Abdul Hakim Murrad, who was in federal custody in New York City awaiting trial for plotting to blow up airliners, told jailers – "and later the FBI" – that the OKC bombing "had been orchestrated by his former roommate in the Philippines, Ramzi Youssef," the "most wanted terrorist in the world until his capture in Pakistan in February 1995."
He went on to say that Youssef was the "mastermind" behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and that the evidence pointed to connections between him, Murrad and Nichols in the Philippines. Nichols' phone records show that he made 13 "unidentified calls" from his home in Kansas to the Philippines in early April 1995, Johnston said.
Johnston also said his evidence "will show that the Republic of Iraq and [President] Saddam Hussein were involved in funding and planning" the OKC bombing.
Evidence suggests that Youssef and Murrad are Iraqi agents, Charles Key, a former Oklahoma legislator and currently a primary member of the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, told WorldNetDaily yesterday.
The Oklahoma attorney, in his statement, claims that "certain elements of the United States government must have known" about the "foreign involvement all along," though he did not elaborate.
"Indeed, in a recent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to obtain relevant information concerning" the alleged involvement of other unidentified bombers, "federal Judge Wayne Alley observed in written orders that, '… The FBI had maintained a shroud of secrecy around the entire bombing case since 1995,'" said the statement.
Johnston said the evidence supports his claim that the FBI was "ignoring substantial evidence of a major international terrorist offensive, conceived and planned in the Philippines sometime between 1991 and 1994," which "produced tragic consequences of its own."
He said by ignoring Youssef's plan, codenamed "Project Bojinka" or "Big Boom," the FBI "created a situation that resulted in less than complete justice for the victims of the OKC bombing."
"Specifically, other major terrorist acts were revealed on Ramsey Youssef's laptop computer, which was seized by Philippine authorities in January 1995, as [Murrad] was arrested," Johnston said. "The most devastating of these new terrorist actions manifested itself on Sept. 11, 2001 … at a cost of almost 4,000 American civilian dead."
Johnston said the news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Central time at the "Christ Averting His Eyes" memorial, just west of the bombing memorial in Oklahoma City. The conference will begin 30 minutes after a memorial service for those killed in the attack.
Johnston's announcement follows other legal action attempting to connect Iraq to the bombing.
In March, a class action lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., by public interest law firm Judicial Watch against Iraq for that state's alleged involvement in the OKC bombing.
"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," the suit said.
Federal officials have repeatedly said the attack on the Murrah Building was committed by former Army vet McVeigh – who was executed June 11, 2001 – and accomplice Nichols, now serving a life sentence for his role in the bombing.
The FBI says the explosion, which destroyed nearly one-third of the building, was the result of a huge ammonium nitrate-laden truck bomb parked in front of the building.
"We knew as early as 1995 that Iraq was likely involved in the bombing," Keys said.
He said he and other committee members knew based on research done by Brad Edwards and Jayna Davis, who worked at the time for an NBC television affiliate in Oklahoma City.
Davis, in March 2001, was the first reporter to publicly announce an alleged connection between al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden – wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks – and the OKC bombing.
Part III of III: New Details from Witnesses Provide More Proof of John Does in OKC Bombing ^
Posted by flamefront to OKCSubmariner On News/Activism ^ Apr 18 8:20 PM #8 of 9 ^
The 3 part series posted by OKCSubmariner 18 April 2002 on "New Details from Witnesses Provide More Proof of John Does in OKC Bombing"
Part I
Part II
Part III
B/S. I sent you the reason via FRmail.
Jim
From what I can tell, the reason you gave me applied to another 2 part series posted two weeks ago that you also deleted tonight.
But to me your reason does not seem to apply to the three part series for tonight that may have gotten accidentally deleted by mistake.
There is no mention of a name you are concerned about in any of the three part series articles for tonight or in any of the replies associated with them. Please reconsider and reinstate the three part series from tonight if you agree. Or please let me know what I need to change so they can be reposted.
I have worked years collecting the info to write these articles and would be glad to find a solution to the problem so the articles can be reposted in some form.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Pat Briley (OKCSubmariner) Thanks.
I asked flamefront to check on this and he told me he could not find anything either. I am sorry, I honestly do not understand reply #11 or why the three part series was deleted tonight. I have always admired you Jim and this really hurts me. I really do not understand.
May God Bless you Jim. Peace to you in all you do.
I still hope we can save the Republic.
Here is a LINK to a website that has a fantastic MPEG video clip of the local OKC news broadcast on 04-19-95, where the local newsanchors report that two bombs "bigger than the one that destroyed the building" were found inside the wreckage, These same anchors then report, on-air, that the existance of these bombs were confirmed to them by FBI agents on the scene!
I appreciate your suggestion.
Could you give me some good ideas for why you believe I should open a website? I will seriously consider your recommendations if you can tell me how you think it will be beneficial. I have never run a website like you have and I really do not know what I would be getting into.
I do not have any funds right now and I do not know anyone to raise the funds for a website. Any ideas for funding?
I really like posting on your website and hope you will still let me.
Since Wolfowitz and company are saying publicly that they think Iraq is /was involved with OKC,what you are documenting is probably the truth Oakie!
You have gone to the feds with your info.
Please tell me who and when.
Just as I have gone to the FBI with my opinions about Binnys medical matrix, I have done my job as a citizen!
FR is an amazing vehicle!
Imagine if it had been around during Viet Nam or WWII !
As long as there is an internet, and even after, when some new medium replaces it,Free Republic will be the contemporanious archive of news and conservative reaction !
While I know that Jim Robinson owns this site, and I have not paid one penny to use it, I certainly hope that posters like you Oakie,me, and yes the late Black Jade are welcome!
Long live Freedom of the Press!
Long live Freedom of Speech!
Defend the Homeland!
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