Yes, it was not:
Probably the FIRST time was when Uncle Ruslan suggested his nephews to his employer --the CIA-- as future Chechnyan assets for undercover infiltration of muzzie groups, the same way that McVeigh did pre-OKC, but among weird fringe right groups in the USA.
And then his asset value was confirmed after OlderBro accepted and set about establishing his InsaneMuzzie credentials.
How many times did his close friends tell us of his "very sudden and strong conversion"...?
I mean, first he's this big boozer/drinker party boy, and then there is this very huge and conspicuous turn to fundamentalism.
THE GUY WAS *WORKING*. Probably at that early point he had not yet been flipped --it probably came shortly before he traveled abroad, to meet with handlers.
Some say OBL's very own son was hanging around near the finish line, so...my guess is that at that final point the other side was pretty confident that at they'd reeled our guy in for the big Boston double-cross.
Same thing with Elohim City, where German/USA/SPLC AGENT-in-place Andreas Streissmeir was IN CHARGE OF SECURITY. Not just a peripheral hanger-on, m’kay? Nope..!
He was a really trusted, EXTRA TURBO CRAZY guy, there —the government agent. In fact so much more crazy than average that many described him as an AGENT PROVOCATEUR.
But that’s not all, as they say: Much later it turned out that the whole spiritual founder and manager of Elohim also was...? You guessed it...!
A paid asset of the FBI...!
And OKC was intended to be just one part of PatCon, a huge program to infiltrate and neutralize ALL US “extremist groups”.
And it was a sting that went bad, since the final blast timetable for OKC was moved up suddenly.
So let’s recap:
1. Gov’t agents
2. Gov’t foreknowledge
3. Blast DOES go off, in the end
***DOES THAT SOUND FAMLIAR..?***