Investigative Report: What They Knew; When They Knew It

Insight Magazine ^ | May 27, 2002 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[The Great Satan]

From Laurie Mylroie's article The World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters, published in the Winter, 1995/96 issue of The National Interest:

Individually, the pieces of this puzzle--the elusive identity and affiliation of the World Trade Center bomber; the series of explicit threats against the United States issuing from Baghdad; the question of Iraqi biological capabilities--raise troubling questions. Taken together, they provide the outline of a very frightening possibility. The lack of coordination between the Departments of Justice and State may have created a niche for terrorism within America's borders; while the lack of any adequate response to the two major bombing conspiracies may have already begun to undermine the credibility of the threat of deterrence. So far, State Department officials have been content to leave the issue of Iraq's possible resort to biological terrorism on the back burner, secure in the belief that the threat of nuclear retaliation will be sufficient deterrent. But Saddam has previously miscalculated the American reaction to his provocations. It would be reassuring to know that, somewhere in the policy-apparatus of the State Department, someone is looking seriously at the possibility of future terrorist acts and at the requirements of effective deterrence.

Did she nail it, six years ago, or what?

[independentmind]

Because of Mena, Arkansas, and IranContra. That's why. The Clintons will start throwing accusations when they finally do get their cranks caught in the wringer. Some of those accusations are going to hurt because they will stick.

I, like you, fear that the Clintons may "have something" on the Bushes. What that is, I don't know.

[Darksheare]

Daschle seems to be trying to figure out whose hand is on his bum.

He also can't seem to grasp that he and the rest of congress had the same info at the same time as the ex-pres.... As well as our current Pres.

[monkeywrench]

I'll take a stab at your #12. I think the left is pushing for one, so that the dems. can control what will and won't be on the itinerary. It will be alot less than thorough.

[Fred Mertz]

"A short time later, Murad passed a note to the guard, again claiming that the Liberation Army was responsible for the bombing in Oklahoma City."

When are the American people going to wake up?

[concerned about politics]

How can the Democrats actually condemn Bush when Clinton was so many times worse in this area? Clinton continued to look the other way after American citizens were slaughtered over and over again.
At least Bush chose to try to stop it from happening during his Administration.
Clinton was certainly not qualified to be a president. I hope Americans have learned their lesson. They must never again vote for a child in a mans body. It takes an adult to run this country, and thank goodness we have one now.

[Nita Nupress]

FBI forensic experts found that the huge Oklahoma City bomb, which was made from fertilizer and diesel fuel, was distinctive. In the FBI database that contains the profile and composition of some 73,000 explosions, they found only two other bombs of the same type. Both had been made by Yousef.

I can't wait to hear your rationalization for this.

[concerned about politics]

9/11 was mass Arkancide

And so was Waco.

Ruby Ridge was bad, too.

[codebreaker]

How long can they deny this if the materials match OKC?

[Nita Nupress]

When are the American people going to wake up?

Probably when it's too late.

[concerned about politics]

How long can they deny this if the materials match OKC?

They've already explained OKC. Clinton beat the ambulances to the scene and blamed right wing militias and right wing radio. What a dork he was. *sigh*

[Timesink]

I just noticed the camera technique used for this photo. With Dashole well in front of the other two, the low camera angle puts the top of his head higher in the image than the top of the heads of the other two. I wonder if Little Tommy had forgotten his step stool.

Remember the Ashcroft "cover up the statue's bare breasts" story that turned out to be completely false, a planted lie by the treasurer of the DNC? Press photographers routinely laid on the floor and contorted themselves in order to get shots of Ashcroft speaking with the breasts perfectly positioned behind his head. They also did this during the Ed Meese days.

But good luck finding a single example of such a photo from the Janet Reno era.

[codebreaker]

I just hope Dan Burton can get to this stuff in his investigation..

[philman_36]

FBI forensic experts found that the huge Oklahoma City bomb, which was made from fertilizer and diesel fuel, was distinctive. In the FBI database that contains the profile and composition of some 73,000 explosions, they found only two other bombs of the same type. Both had been made by Yousef.
Why do I even bother trying anymore!
Urea nitrate and compressed hydrogen gas WTC 1 and ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) OKC.
So which is it FBI? Somebody needs to get their stories straight!

[antivenom]

NOT only that the terrorists KNOW the FBI and the CIA don't communicate they also KNOW by testing the FAA and the NTSB have got their heads so far up their rectums...that THEY can't recognize all the terrorist TEST runs:

• TWA Flt.800 (July 17, 1996)- they tested a "checked" bomb onboard - WORKED
• Egypt Air FLT. 990 (Oct 31, 1999) - tested busting into a cockpit and gain control - WORKED
• AA Flt. 587 (Nov 12, 2001) - tested security and detonated a bomb - WORKED

The NTSB and the FAA are so unorganized that THEY make the FBI and the CIA look great.

Let's face some facts here folks...we have QUITE a few New York area airport problems...we have the Clinton administration's FAA and NTSB and what's left fo the FBI and the CIA playing CYA big time.

It is time to reopen the 3 airline crashes mentioned above while we are re-hashing who knew what and when...

The terrorists have been pulling this sh*t for years here in the USA and we finally OPEN our eyes on 911???

[philman_36]

FBI forensic experts found that the huge Oklahoma City bomb, which was made from fertilizer and diesel fuel, was distinctive. In the FBI database that contains the profile and composition of some 73,000 explosions, they found only two other bombs of the same type. Both had been made by Yousef.
So which is it FBI? Somebody needs to get their stories straight!

"Lone nut right wing fanatic" or middle-east terrorists?

[BlackVeil]

Ping, what do you think of this? I haven't had time to read it properly, will come back to it.

[Bommer]

TWA wasn't a checked bomb because none of the plane shows an inertia explosion outward. That was a missle shootdown. As far as Eqypt air, the pilot went mental and crashed the jet into the sea. Now Flt 587 I do believe was terrorism.

[The Great Satan]

Since it's not clear to me how OKC would fit into any Iraqi or islamacist game plan, I'm gonna take a pass on these stories until they get credence from sources less questionable than Insight, Newsmax and Dan Burton.