Congressman demands new OKC bomb probe, sees foreign connection,conspiracy beyond McVeigh, Nichols

WND ^ | 03.31.06

[Coleus]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is calling for a congressional investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing because of evidence of a foreign connection and a conspiracy broader than Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.  In a memo written to Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rohrabacher said he has spent 12 months personally investigating the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 and concluded "there is ample evidence to justify an investigative hearing into this historic crime."  The focus of the probe, he suggests, should be "Was there a foreign connection to the Oklahoma City bombing?"

"The official position today, defended by the FBI and Justice Department, is that the OKC bombing, which left 168 persons dead, was planned and executed solely by two disgruntled veterans, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, with the limited involvement of Michael Fortier," writes Rohrabacher. "After my inquiry I have concluded that others were involved and that information about the bombing is being kept from the public and from the Congress. The jurisdiction of my Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations extends only to the possible international and foreign involvement in the crime. Even within that framework there is ample evidence to justify an investigative hearing."

Rohrabacher worked closely in his personal investigation with Jayna Davis, author of the WND Book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing."  The congressman said there are two major targets of inquiry which indicate a foreign connection to the OKC bombing:

"First, Terry Nichols and, to some degree, Timothy McVeigh appear to have had contact with Arab, Muslim, or Middle Eastern terrorist elements prior to and during the implementation of the bomb plot," he wrote. "Second, just as significant, there is evidence of a personal relationship between Timothy McVeigh and Andreas Carl Strassmeier, a German national who was promoting violent insurrection to white supremacists at their nearby stronghold called Elohim City."

Rohrabacher concludes in his memo to Hyde: "(I)t is highly likely that the Arab connection and or the Strassmeier connection played a significant role in the planning and execution of the murderous bombing of the OKC federal building. In both possible scenarios, the official investigation fell short and further investigation has been discouraged ever since."

He suggested a one-day or two-day hearing and suggested subpoenas be issued to former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno.  "The bombing of the OKC federal building was the greatest slaughter of innocent Americans until 9/11," Rohrabacher writes. "It is possible there was an al-Qaida connection. It is possible there was a Strassmeier connection. There is ample reason to disbelieve the official version of this horrific crime. It is up to us to begin setting the record straight."

Previous stories:

Docs: Secret Service took thousands of phone records
'Compelling' evidence of another terrorist
Agent: Feds told of threats to blow buildings
Oklahoma City FBI surrenders documents to court
Congressman to FBI: Turn over documents
FBI must turn over investigation docs
Ex-Green Beret involved in attack?
FBI has secret docs it's reluctant to give up
Withheld evidence to sink case against Nichols?
Declassified FBI memo reveals twists in probe
Reporter's Oklahoma City coverage vindicated
Was FBI early arrival in Oklahoma City?
Another suicide or another cover-up?

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

[TXnMA]

Dana told her there is no money in the budget for a plane ticket for Jayna to D.C.

Uh-OH! Here we go again! Congressmen have that much money in their postage fund. If he really wanted to, DR could fly down and bring her back -- and put the whole tab on his expense account... Sounds like another brush-off... :-(

[doug from upland]

She and I are on the phone now.

[P-40]

I'm reminded that numerous surveillance videos which might have revealed what went on in front of the building

This short audio clip on NPR addresses the videos and the additional suspects as reported by the Secret Service. It is about three minutes long and well worth the listen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1846269

[Don Carlos]

"Why does the FBI continue to stonewall"? That question should be moved to top of any investigation. FBI investigations for at least 15 years have been stonewall and/or whitewash jobs.

Careerism? Leftover Janet Reno-ism? Who knows! But if there was ever a fed agency that needed a top-down shake-up, it if the FBI.

WTG Congressman Rohrabacher!

[Don Carlos]

I managed to plow through THE THIRD TERRORIST, and while it is an INCREDIBLY badly written book, it does make a compelling case

Plow through? Incredibly badly written?

LMAO!

[Lexington Green]

The FBI specializes in cover-ups.

[Wallace T.]

There is a disposition on the part of the top level of both political parties to maintain whatever had been initially determined as the reason for a given event in the immediate period following an event as a received opinion. Thus, it is "carved in stone" that President Roosevelt and General Marshall knew nothing about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, that "lone nuts" killed the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King, that the Branch Davidians committed mass suicide, that two white supremacists blew up the Murrah Federal Building, etc. Furthermore, anyone who questions the received opinion is a crackpot.

[B4Ranch]

Why?

[Don Carlos]

Had what happened in OKC been revealed, Clinton would have been forced to deal with the problem, and we could have avoided 9-11.

Yep! I've often wondered if non-public released info on this bombing may not have played a part in Pres. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq. There's damn sure more info hidden in the gumment archives than is available to we peons.

[P-40]

Plow through? Incredibly badly written?

I found it to have good flow and was very easy to read. In some ways it read like a summary of court depositions...which is the basis for a good portion of the book...but I like that sort of thing. It is very well-sourced and does not come across as a "conspiracy" book.

[B4Ranch]

From his Mass. home page:

"Give up your inquiries which are completely
useless, and consider these words a second

warning.

We hope, for your own good, that this will be

sufficient."

[justshutupandtakeit]

No it is not Oklahoma's issue. A federal building containing federal employees was destroyed hence there is no question about a federal interest.

[Don Carlos]

the problem of an extra leg in camo clothing

If I'm not mistaken, the leg was later traced to a female airman stationed at Tinker AFB. She was from Louisiana, and I believe her body was exhumed and re-buried with the missing leg.

And no, before you ask, I can't give a link.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Michael Savage is one of the biggest boneheads on the air. He does a lot of damage to conservativism.

[Don Carlos]

The extra leg was (If I remember correctly) female (DNA) African-American.See my post #113. Correct. We attended Mass at the same church.

[TXnMA]

For a bit, there, I thought we had another "FedShill" uncloaking himself, but they are seldom so forward as to declare their truth-clouding nature so openly -- and on ther FRProfile...

[B4Ranch]

Maybe he's just one of those folks who are offended by the truth and the facts. I'm not going to ping him because he seems to have flew the coop.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****If I'm not mistaken, the leg was later traced to a female airman stationed at Tinker AFB. She was from Louisiana, and I believe her body was exhumed and re-buried with the missing leg.***

Well good. That clears up a little bit of the mystery.

[P-40]

and I believe her body was exhumed and re-buried with the missing leg.

I thought it was the other way around. The leg was buried with the wrong body, the body was exhumed and the leg removed, and then a new burial service was held. I'm not certain about that though.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** Furthermore, anyone who questions the received opinion is a crackpot.***


Not really. When such questions are raised the crackpots immediatly migrate to that position. the questions raised then become lost in a sea of rants fron the crack pots.

A very fine example is 9-11. Do a web search and you will see some real loonies claiming all sorts of "U. S. government complicity" in the attacks.