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To: Don Myers
"I believe that I have been reading posts indicating possible connections to Iraq."

That appears to be the current wet dream of the far-right. Too bad its hogwash.

Check out Tabernacle of Hate: Why They Bombed Oklahoma City by Kerry Noble, to learn the motivation for the bombing, and In Bad Company : America's Terrorist Underground by Mark S. Hamm, for the connections between McVeigh and the Aryan Republican Army.

The motivation for the OKC bombing was not Waco, as many have speculated, but revenge for the execution of Richard "Wayne" Snell - a white supremacist convicted of murdering a black Arkansas State trooper and for robbing and killing a Texarkana pawnbroker that he mistakenly thought was a Jew.

In l983, Snell had plotted with some other radicals to bomb the Murrah building a relatively lightly guarded office complex with numerous federal agencies. Before a bombing could be carried out, though, the plan was put on hold when the bomb builder severely injured himself and the rest of Snell’s gang was arrested for various crimes including conspiracy to overthrow the government.

By 1995, Snell had exhausted all his appeals and, of all dates possible, the state of Arkansas set his date for execution April 19 "Patriots Day" and the second anniversary of the fiery deaths of the Branch Davidians.

Suddenly, several far-right groups began making threats of retaliation if their "patriot hero" were killed by the government. Snell added to the tension, promising there would be serious consequences if he were executed. He even told prison guards there would be a bombing.

"Army of God? The Salvation Army?"

Not quite. Click here to read about these wing-nuts in their own words. But I have a hunch you are already acquainted with these knuckle-draggers.

59 posted on 12/02/2001 4:43:16 PM PST by Who is George Salt?
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To: Who is George Salt?
"But I have a hunch you are already acquainted with these knuckle-draggers."

And I have a hunch that you are already acquainted with the Green Party.

60 posted on 12/02/2001 5:13:33 PM PST by Don Myers
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