What folks seem to miss is the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" factor. There is no reason that Saddam et. al. wouldn't join forces with NAZI's to strike America. The Arabs did fight for the Axis in WW2 after all.
Thanks to PeaceBeWithYou, and TXnMA for their responses. But I'm here to give my take on Jayna's book. If she had just stuck to possible various possible people connected to Islamic Terrorists, who MIGHT have provided support to the Oklahoma City Bombers, while adding information about the bombing that would have come out later (her book was one of the last to come out), the book would have been fine.
But to justify herself as a star in the Oklahoma Bombing group of writers/reporters she had to stretch her credibility to the breaking point, so she could be the person who identified the real "John Doe #2", and he had to be an Islamic terrorist. That's where the book falls down and makes her look bad.
I don't recall her treatment of the FBI arrest warrant for Andreas Strassmeir. It is the only other arrest warrant issued for murder connected with the Oklahoma City Bombing that hasn't been dealt with. McVeigh and Nichols, needed an expert, with broad experience and training handling explosives. Someone working in an Olin dynamite factory is more the direction I would have gone in or something similar (used only as an example). "Paper" bomb building experts would bbe pretty much useless in a real-life situation like the Ok City Bombing.
I mean, get serious!!! The bomb builder would have to drive a giant bomb a couple hundred miles to its target. McVeigh might have been a dedicated, anti-government fanatic, BUT JOHN DOE #2 WAS SEEN GETTING OUT OF THE TRUCK BOMB TOO. Then we even have a witness who saw the two of them drive away at least some distance from where Tim McVeigh's car was parked. No bomb builder, who isn't sure of his work, would go with McVeigh from Kansas to OK City.
Once I realized that Jayna was totally ignoring Andreas Strassmeir's background, and she also disregarded the descriptions of people who saw John Doe #2 with Tim McVeigh as "possibly part Hispanic and/or part Native American", I knew Jayna was trying to win the big prize by excluding whatever information didn't fit her theory, about who John Doe #2 is.
Rep Charles Key had an early draft of my book, OBIC investigator Jim Grace spoke to me 3 times for perhaps 10 hours, and I've even contacted Jayna. Jayna should look at the airport photos and Interpol drawings made from the airport videos, of THE REAL John Doe #2 who was being chased in France and Germany in 1995. The resemblance to the first John Doe #2 drawing is so exact, it will take your breath away.
A small note about why the US State Department yearly notice to our friendly ally countries, hasn't been able to catch this bomb designer/maker. This yearly notice actually helps the FBI to continue the cover up. This notice of persons of interest, goes to Germany every year. For year Gunther Strassmeir was the Second most powerful elected official in Germany, right behind the Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl. Each year when Germany got this request for information about persons of interest to the US government, he just passed that info on to his son, Andreas, and John Doe #2. So the FBI could then pretend to be looking for other OK City bombers, while letting the State department alert Andreas and JD#2 to the fact that the investigation is still ongoing. Total crap.
TomTGradeczek, tomtgradeczek@lycos.com
author of Waiting For John Doe (Number Two), (how a former Hitler Youth successfully arranged mass murder through a terrorist attack on Oklahoma and America) and read the second novel by TomTGradeczek, The Physics of Crime, coming soon.