Posted on 05/27/2004 6:54:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols met with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines before he and Timothy McVeigh carried out their plot, investigative reporter Jayna Davis said Wednesday.
"Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef met personally in the Philippines on the island of Mindanao in the early 1990s to discuss, of all things, bombmaking," Davis told ABC Radio Network host John Batchelor.
On Wednesday, an Oklahoma jury returned a 161 count murder verdict against Nichols. He is expected to face the death penalty. But the bizarre Yousef-Nichols tie-in did not come up in the trial.
Davis said she didn't think Nichols would ever discuss his relationship with Yousef, who devised a plot known as Operation Bojinka, a kamikaze airliner hijacking plan that became the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks.
"Sources close to the defense have told me, and this comes from recorded conversations with his wife, Lana Padilla, that Terry Nichols is going to remain clammed up for the rest of his natural days on earth," Davis told Batchelor.
"He wants to protect his son Joshua from any retaliation," she added. Filipino police informant, Edwin Angeles, who first detailed meetings between Yousef and Nichols, was assassinated in 1998.
Yousef's partner in the Bojinka plot, Abdul Hakim Murad, was apprehended by Filipino police in 1994 and taken to New York to stand trial. On the morning of the OKC bombing, Murad summoned his jailers to tell them he and Yousef were connected to the crime. Later that day Murad gave the FBI a written confession.
Just months before his own June 2001 execution for the crime, Timothy McVeigh referred to both Yousef and Osama bin Laden in a letter to Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby.
"Collateral Damage? As an American news junkie; a military man; and a Gulf War veteran, where do they think I learned that? (It sure as hell wasn't Osama Bin Laden!)," he wrote in April 2001.
In the next sentence, McVeigh mentioned Yousef.
"For all else, I would refer you to my enclosed paper 'Hypocrisy,' and to Ramzi Yousef's statement to the court just prior to his sentencing. I filter all labels and insults thusly."
In the Jan. 8, 1998, court statement to which McVeigh referred, Yousef proclaimed, "Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government," before being sentenced to 240 years in jail.
Maybe.
They were in a BIG hurry to off McVeigh.
Dead men tell no tales...
is this a "sleeper" or just our village's idiot???
yes, dumbass, I do.
will you now get on your knees and apologize for the gross insult to all constitutional constructionists which you dared to utter?
the scabrous flatulence of a village idiot equating RKBA hardliners with islamicists.
I expect you'll want to pull that.
But I had to say it. Sorry.
Why are you posting such bayourod............ Why the association of baby killers with those of us that support the constitution ....... All of it, not just the ones we like or dislike ???
I didn't compare people who believe in the "traditionalist" view of the Bill of Rights to terrorists. I compared the psychos who kill innocent women and children to Muslim terrorists.
I compared "moderate Muslims" who refused to condemn Islamoterrorists to gun enthusiasts who refused to condemn McVeigh and Nichols.
Pro-life advocates don't hesitate to condemn psychos who kill abortion doctors.
Are you willing to go on record as condemning the terrorists who bombed the Oklahoma Federal Building?
I didn't insult constitutional constructionists. I'm one myself. I compared 2nd amendment supporters who refuse to speak out against terrorist bombers such as Nichols and McVeigh to moderate Muslims who refuse to speak out against Islamofacist terrorists such as Osma Ben Laden.
Do you think the Oklahoma bombing helped the cause of the NRA?
Just who the hell do you think you are to demand I go on the record condemning the OKC bombing. I'm no white supremecist and I'm not an Islamofascist. I served my country and I'm willing to serve again if needed.
People who know me would be more inclined to bitch slap you for even insinuating that I support or condone what was done in OKC.
You won't be treating me like some suspect to be cross examined you troll piece of trash.
(Travis I think you hit the nail on the head with this PoS.)
I've had enough of your garbage.
I am not going to give up either one.
Stay Safe Ern !
BULL!
Let me remind you of what you actually said:
There's a lot of similarities between the terrorists who worship the Koran and the militants who worship the Second Amendment.
Both believe in a higher authority that compels them to murder innocent women and children for no constructive reason.
You are now condemned by your own words as either a moron or a liar.
I do not answer stupid questions from either variety of irritant.
Go away, Moby, before you manage to irritate someone with less self-restraint than I possess.
Tim McVeigh, Elohim City, and "Christian Identity"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=mcveigh+elohim
Just one of many historical examples of collaboration between the SoS, Master-Racists, and Mooselems.
Lucifer has never been picky about the tools he uses.
Rev 2:9
I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Agreed. Even Holmes would agree. Simplest solution is the most likely.
BOO-YAH!
Well put.
Feel free to restate my intended thoughts in a more appropriate manner.
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