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AIM Report: An Islamist Connection to OKC Bombing
AIM Report ^ | 4/24/207 | Wes Vernon

Posted on 04/24/2007 6:35:27 PM PDT by Mike Bates

The mainstream media have gone AWOL again—this time by missing the complete story on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. There are leads suggesting the bombing that killed 168 innocent American men, women, and children had been ordered by Saddam Hussein—then in power in Iraq, and possibly with the help of other Middle East terrorists.

Politically, the cover-up is bipartisan—spanning two administrations—Clinton and Bush 43. Political interests, with the spectator-like acquiescence of the major media, did not want it known there is evidence that Timothy McVeigh (executed in June of 2001) and Terry Nichols (now rotting in prison) had help from foreign sources.

Big Media Not Interested

Ignoring a huge story like this is bad enough. But at least two establishment outlets—the New York Times and CBS—affirmatively squelched it, albeit in different ways. The Times shut down an investigation that was hot on the trail of the story. CBS did not follow up on clear evidence of Middle East involvement. Why?

The media had built a scenario on the mass murder as the work of the "angry white males" stereotype. During TV coverage at the time, one would think that at any minute, network reporters themselves would soon be dragging Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh hogtied in front of the cameras as the culprits. After all, bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were white males, obviously quite angry and anti-government. Ergo the rhetoric that conservative talk radio and the new Gingrich Republican Congress had inspired them to bomb a federal building.

"Lily Whites" Had Help

Nearly a dozen years later, as time was running out on the Republican 109th Congress, Chairman Dana Rohrabacher of the House International Relations Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee released a report just before Christmas, 2006, citing strong circumstantial evidence pointing to Saddam's . . .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jaynadavis; okcbombing

1 posted on 04/24/2007 6:35:29 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates
The media stays AWOL for all things Clinton....otherwise they would have been all over this. (about three minutes long)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1846269
2 posted on 04/24/2007 6:41:18 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40

When Jose Padilla was first arrested I posted here asking other Freepers to look at the similarities between Padilla and John Doe #2.


3 posted on 04/24/2007 7:27:18 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I remember that.


4 posted on 04/24/2007 9:33:06 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Mike Bates

Good stuff, Mike. The Jayna Davis stuff is DYNAMITE!


5 posted on 04/24/2007 9:54:03 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Jose Padilla would have had to have been about 13 at the time of OKC bombing.
6 posted on 04/24/2007 11:16:38 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: Mike Bates
Very recently, Al-Hussaini disappeared.

I wonder if anyone is looking for him...
7 posted on 04/25/2007 5:25:07 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
I wonder if anyone is looking for him...

O.J.'s gonna get on the case just as soon as he finds Nicole's killer.

8 posted on 04/25/2007 5:38:41 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

The tapes now repose in the possession of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare....Oh-oh. They will disappear.


9 posted on 04/25/2007 5:43:11 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Stinko De mayo, Stinko to the Commies.)
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To: Safetgiver

I’d sure like to get ahold of that Secret Service log book...


10 posted on 04/25/2007 5:56:47 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: happygrl
"Jose Padilla would have had to have been about 13 at the time of OKC bombing."

Three left clicks away, you will find he was born in October of 1970.

11 posted on 04/25/2007 1:22:08 PM PDT by shamusotoole
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