[caddie]

What was McVeigh's motivation, Ruby Ridge and Waco?

What would be the motivation of the putative co-conspirators, the middle-eastern looking dudes, that they hate America, and just think it's grand that they have this white guy who wants to do some demolition?

Is it just a marriage of convenience, and did McVeigh go along just to learn the technical aspects from the towelheads, or, is there some deeper reason for collaboration?

I have seen Patterson's articles over and over in the Star and have not known what to make of them.

Thank you for this post.

Regards, caddie

[aristeides]

I could only offer speculations on the motivation of the different parties. I'm not sure it's worth discussing them when they are just speculations. But it certainly is possible to imagine possible motivations.

[RJCogburn]

Good questions.

[TXnMA]

Is it just a marriage of convenience, and did McVeigh go along just to learn the technical aspects from the towelheads, or, is there some deeper reason for collaboration?

McVeigh was a 'closet' Iraqi sympathizer.

It has not been widely publicized, but the (female) former executive director of the OKBIC established a rapport and correspondence link with McVeigh in prison. She shared with me at least one of his letters in which McVeigh justified his killing of children in OKC as 'no worse than the US's evil bombing and starvation (via sanctions) of Iraqi children'.

FWIW, she described McV as "a horny kid who welcomed the opportunity to correspond with a not-unattractive young woman." (my paraphrase...)

TXnMA (no longer!!!)

[Mitchell]

Is it just a marriage of convenience, and did McVeigh go along just to learn the technical aspects from the towelheads, or, is there some deeper reason for collaboration?

Post #70 above might be of interest.