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Mainstream papers now reporting it with a wink -- better than not at all.

The funny thing is how anyone who rules out the possibility of more terrorists involved in OKC has only their faith in the Reno-politicized and terror-bungling FBI bureaucracy to stand on. May as well be thin air. Why not trust the Oklahoma people and their accounts and investigations instead? Well, that would be like believing the hundreds of TWA800 crash eyewitnesses who contradict that goofy CIA animation created with martian physics!

1 posted on 06/17/2002 4:44:52 AM PDT by spycatcher
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The FBI, which isn't taking these claims seriously

Oh, well. That's certainly good enough for me! Nothing to see here folks! Move along!

2 posted on 06/17/2002 4:54:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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This WSJ article didn't give credit to the FREE REPUBLIC where this story originated due to a poster pointing out the similarities between Padilla and the sketch of John Doe #2. In any case, has the whereabouts of Padilla in April 1995 been determined yet?
3 posted on 06/17/2002 4:55:58 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Nice title they used, implying anyone who sees the similarity is a conspiracy kook, SOP. A blind man can see the similarities.
4 posted on 06/17/2002 5:08:32 AM PDT by steve50
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Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln, and Terry Lynn Nichols had a wife named Padilla.

Only her last name wasn't Padilla before marriage to Nichols, but after, when she remarried one Leonard Padilla of Las Vegas, Nevada, who works for the FAA...LOL.

The truth takes twist and turns that no conspiracy theory can account for.

The FBI described him as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10. His sketch, released by the FBI the day after the bombing, shows dark hair swept straight back, strong eyebrows, a square jaw and a powerful neck. Mr. Padilla, who is Hispanic, appears to have a more rounded jaw, but his other features closely match those of the sketch.

The FBI described him as....What the hell did the witnesses describe him as?

Reno's FBI told us that the Davidians were making drugs, abusing children, that the tear gas was non-flamable and that the Davidians started the fire themselves, but later had to recount all that in light of the evidence.

Why should we believe this was any different? Especially in light of clinton's quick attack on the militia's and conservative talk radio as perpetrators and enciters of domestic terrorism.

What would have happened to his chances of re-election if they had admitted that this too was false, or that TWA800 was downed by overseas terrorist as well?

How apropo that a 60's lyric fits.

When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love
You'd better find somebody to love.

Enter Monica.

If time truely wounds all heals, the clintons and the FOB's have some more and more serious bruisings coming.

9 posted on 06/17/2002 6:41:11 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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It Takes a Criminal (aka.Hillary) believes in conspiracies, and "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" never questioned this CONSPIRATORIALIST.
10 posted on 06/17/2002 8:53:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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I've just gone through the first section of the print edition of today's Wall Street Journal. Can it be that this article didn't make the print edition? If so, why not?
12 posted on 06/17/2002 9:15:52 AM PDT by aristeides
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For years, a small, devoted group has been trying to prove that the nation's second-deadliest terrorist attack -- on the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City -- was carried out not just by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols but also by a vast network of Muslim extremists.

Right-wing, left-wing, government guys, or muslims doesn't matter, but does anyone truly believe that McVeigh and Nichols were the only 2 participants in the entire event?

This isn't to say that they weren't involved or didn't deserve their punishment, but it seems that in order to secure prosecution of these 2, all other participants' roles were negelcted.

13 posted on 06/17/2002 9:58:44 AM PDT by weegee
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Ms. Padilla laughed when a local television talk show called to ask her about the matching names. She says she's never met Jose Padilla and isn't related to him.

But she, too, believes there was a larger conspiracy at work. After the bombing, she gave police a letter she received in 1994 from Mr. Nichols before one of his trips to the Philippines. In the letter, she says, he suggested he was "afraid of something or somebody." Ms. Padilla speculates he was worried he might be harmed if he identified his co-conspirators.

The more she looks at the mug shots, the more intrigued she becomes. "At first I found it funny," she says. "Now I think we should investigate this."

The first tactic to take the wind out the sails of a conspiracy theory is to make it sound ridiculous. She's now intruiged and was intimately involved with one of the known participants in the act.

20 posted on 06/17/2002 12:25:11 PM PDT by weegee
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You can see more on this here. For those interested, here is Padilla next to the John Doe 2 sketch. Looks a hell of a lot closer to the Padilla then those Unibomber sketches ever looked to Ted Kasczinsky (I know, I cant spell it! Sheesh!)


21 posted on 06/17/2002 2:27:14 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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JAY KRALL and JONATHAN EIG got this pegged right:
Conspiracy Buffs See Similarities Between Jose Padilla, John Doe 2
LOL!
23 posted on 06/17/2002 3:40:04 PM PDT by _Jim
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"I thought, boy, he looks a lot like the John Doe 2 sketches," said Charles Key,
WHY am I not SURPRISED!

Keys - the man who had an OPPORTUNITY on O'Reilly to present his evidence/make his case -

- AND HE HAD NOTHING prompting O'Reilly to admonish Keys with 'Well, come back when you've got something' ...

24 posted on 06/17/2002 3:44:35 PM PDT by _Jim
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Mr. Preston dug up the old police sketch of John Doe 2
Todd Bunting - right?

That's who the *real* John Doe #2 turned out to be ... he was thought by one witness to have accompanied Tim McVeigh to Elliott's Body Shop while picking up the Ryder truck -

- but had actually come in a day later and the witness was in error about the association with Tim McVeigh ...

26 posted on 06/17/2002 3:53:06 PM PDT by _Jim
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I think this (from CNN) is closer than the outer pictures posted:

29 posted on 06/17/2002 7:16:21 PM PDT by Constitution Scholar
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Why was Nichols going to the Phillipines?
30 posted on 06/17/2002 7:50:45 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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37 posted on 02/19/2010 10:20:58 PM PST by 1ofmanyfree ((No jobs, licenses,mortgages,bank accounts or amnesty for any illegal alien criminals ! ))
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