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OKC BOMBING FALLOUT: 9-11 panel confronts Freeh on Iraq link
worldnetdaily.com ^ | Posted: April 14, 2004 | worldnetdaily.com

Posted on 04/14/2004 7:21:18 PM PDT by ovrtaxt

Sept. 11 Commission testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, according to an investigative reporter whose new book on the subject was addressed at the hearing.

Jayna Davis, author of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," told WorldNetDaily Freeh's "carefully parsed" response to a question about her findings "expressed his belief that the book is a credible source."

The new release by WND Books presents substantial evidence of Iraqi involvement and a refusal by federal government agents to investigate the bombing that killed nearly 170 people in April 19, 1995.

Davis repeatedly has tried since 1997, with no success, to convince the FBI to examine her investigation.

Yesterday, however, Lehman brought the issue before the 9-11 Commission with the former FBI director on the witness stand.

LEHMAN: One last question. The Oklahoma City case – again, one of the criticisms has been that one of the problems of the case law approach to intelligence is that, once you focus on a convicting particular terrorists, that there has to be a hypothesis of the case and that's where all of the investigative resources are put in. In the case of Oklahoma City, the hypothesis was that there were two Americans and they acted alone. There's a new book out now, as you probably know, called The Third Terrorist, that has new information that begs for further investigation showing the links or purporting very significant links between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines, and also links between the two perpetrators and Hussein al-Husseini, the Iraqi, perhaps, agent. Are you satisfied that you ran all of these potential Al Qaida links to ground with McVeigh and Nichols?

FREEH: Well, other than that book, which I haven't read, you know, I don't know any other credible source with respect to that kind of a link. No, I have not run those links myself. I certainly was not aware of them when I was FBI director. I know that there is a review going on with respect to some of the matters that have been raised by his attorney in connection with the state murder prosecution that's ongoing. I guess I don't want to say anything with respect to that case as it's being tried now by a judge and a jury. But I don't know of any connections, except the one you've just mentioned, between Ramzi Yousef and that terrorist act.

Davis noted Freeh was careful to say he knew of no other "credible source," instead of dismissing the premise of the book outright.

"I find it very encouraging," she said, "because every time the FBI has been asked to officially comment in any fashion about my research, we have the same canned response that the Department of Justice is confident that all those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing have been arrested, charged and prosecuted."

Or we hear, she continued, "that the FBI dedicated an untold number of resource and manpower into the largest criminal investigation of the 20th century and turned up no credible evidence of a Middle East connection."

Freeh's response, Davis emphasized, is "huge."

"He would not rule it out," she said.

Davis said it's possible Freeh was not aware during his time as FBI director of any credible sources linking Iraq to the bombing.

"It was my impression he was being sincere," she said. "According to my sources in the FBI, he was last to know anything."

Davis's reporting was vetted by former CIA director James Woolsey and given credibility by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last April when it dismissed a lawsuit filed against her after finding "defendants did not recklessly disregard the truth" in reporting on an Iraqi soldier's alleged involvement in the bombing.

"After eight years of oppressive litigation, the courts have vindicated my work ethic as a dedicated journalist," Davis told WorldNetDaily at the time. "The lawsuit was obviously designed to silence a legitimate investigation into Middle Eastern complicity in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing."

In an interview with WND in October 2001, attorney David Schippers, who prosecuted the House of Representatives' impeachment case against Bill Clinton, said his examination of the evidence Davis presented him was conclusive.

"I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing," he said.

Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.


Jayna Davis's blockbuster – "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing" – is available now from the source, WorldNetDaily. Order today and qualify for three FREE issues of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine.

Get your copy of "The Third Terrorist."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; christianpatriot; davidschippers; fredthompson; iraq; jaynadavis; louisfreeh; militiamember; okcbombing; oklahomacity; paranoia
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To: auboy
Does anyone know the date of the Gorelick memo?

March 4, 1995. Six weeks before the OKC bombing

Nice timing, Gorelick.

101 posted on 04/15/2004 4:27:46 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: ovrtaxt
"Maybe we'll wake up to a huge avalanche of truth."

Sweet dreamer!
102 posted on 04/15/2004 5:46:31 AM PDT by B4Ranch (“WE OFTEN GIVE OUR ENEMIES THE MEANS FOR OUR OWN DESTRUCTION.”)
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To: mewzilla
BTTT
103 posted on 04/15/2004 5:48:51 AM PDT by Gritty ("Clinton’s failure to mobilize America after the 1993 WTC attack led directly to 9/11"-Dick Morris)
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To: ScaniaBoy
"Casey was more blunt. He wrote on the draft, ”This is a bunch of shit.” According to Inman, Casey was concerned more with the lack of logic and flow than with the conclusion.”"

Casey and I have had the same line of thinking for quite a while.
104 posted on 04/15/2004 5:57:36 AM PDT by B4Ranch (“WE OFTEN GIVE OUR ENEMIES THE MEANS FOR OUR OWN DESTRUCTION.”)
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To: ovrtaxt
OKC bombing is the dirty little secret the democrats don't want out....especially the slimey clintons...
105 posted on 04/15/2004 6:05:13 AM PDT by smiley
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To: ScaniaBoy; Happy2BMe; glock rocks
"Lehman seems the only commissioner who is doing his job. He posed good questions to Dr Rice, and now he brought up the OKC bombing."

You can bet Lehman got a good chewing out for expanding the investigation of the 911 Commision.

Commision reports are supposed to be written before the investigation. That's how everything is contained within the government.

"All truth goes through three stages.
First it is ridiculed.
Then it is violently opposed.
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
(Schopenhauer)

106 posted on 04/15/2004 6:07:57 AM PDT by B4Ranch (“WE OFTEN GIVE OUR ENEMIES THE MEANS FOR OUR OWN DESTRUCTION.”)
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To: ovrtaxt
bump to read later
107 posted on 04/15/2004 6:48:17 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (What do Gorelick and Kerry know about TWA800?)
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To: potlatch

108 posted on 04/15/2004 6:52:57 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
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To: Happy2BMe
bump !

109 posted on 04/15/2004 6:53:26 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
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To: Gritty
I still want to know more about the origin of that memo. Whose idea it was, what Toon knew about it. And why in HADES no-one stopped it since the only people who could benefit from it are the BAD GUYS.
110 posted on 04/15/2004 6:55:21 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: potlatch
I've always felt he is protecting his Father in some way!!?

Bingo.

111 posted on 04/15/2004 6:56:39 AM PDT by jpl ("I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." - John Kerry)
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To: *OKCbombing
Index bump.
112 posted on 04/15/2004 7:01:57 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: ovrtaxt
You know the saying "Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean you are never being pursued".

Maybe the 9/11 Commission inadvertently will force a reopening of the OKC case, and then.....
113 posted on 04/15/2004 7:20:44 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ovrtaxt; SittinYonder
bump for more info on a new favorite topic (Phillipines, terrorists, and Terry Nichols)
114 posted on 04/15/2004 7:23:15 AM PDT by eyespysomething (This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it's dimwit resistant.)
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To: saradippity
b)Bill and Hillary have something on his father.Maybe,something in those 700+ files that Hillary requisitioned?

Or maybe we would find that the Iraqis his daddy resettled in Oklahoma City after our first incursion into Iraq were the very same Iraqis that were involved in the bombing of the Federal Building.

No, Clinton would have toughted that from every roof top and on every radio show.

115 posted on 04/15/2004 7:24:56 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: B4Ranch
You can bet Lehman got a good chewing out for expanding the investigation of the 911 Commision.

We have a right to expect our representatives to walk through fire and hell to get at the truth. That's what they are paid for.

Anyway, isn't Lehman an Admiral(ret)? In that case I'm sure he can weather the storm. ; - )

116 posted on 04/15/2004 7:25:34 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ovrtaxt
Danny Defenbaugh
117 posted on 04/15/2004 7:30:38 AM PDT by Cooter
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Speaking of WTC1 how come there's not more discussion about the FBI's prior knowledge of that event and the fact that they had an informant within the terrorist group pleading with them to intervene before something happened?
118 posted on 04/15/2004 7:42:33 AM PDT by american spirit
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To: maestro
Thanks for the ping!
119 posted on 04/15/2004 9:27:48 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: american spirit
Good question. Ask the widders since they seem to be running the Commission.
120 posted on 04/15/2004 9:28:49 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic RATmedia agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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