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OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 12, 2006 – With the sun hanging low in the western sky yesterday, Oklahomans of all ages assembled at the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. They came to this sacred ground to remember those who lost their lives to terrorism. They came on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to participate in the Oklahoma City Freedom Walk, a commemorative event about remembrance of the Sept. 11 victims, reflection on the tragedy of that day, recommitment to the ideals of freedom that epitomize the United States its promise to “never forget,” and respect and support...

BBC archive: 1995: Many feared dead in Oklahoma bombing A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing at least 80 people including 17 children at a nursery. At least 100 people have been injured and the number of dead is expected to rise. In an emotional speech, President Bill Clinton vowed "swift, certain and severe" punishment for those behind the atrocity. "The United States will not tolerate and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards," he told a White House news conference this evening. Trapped in...

The BBC re-published an online article today that they first published 11 years ago. Note the following paragraph: The State Department would not discuss the possibility of this being a terrorist attack but the FBI and Oklahoma police put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and ten of his supporters are currently on trial for the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. We all know today that the government dropped its search for any connection to Middle East terrorists, despite strong evidence...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has told the FBI and his family that he was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, according to a published report. Nichols, serving life prison sentences on federal and state convictions for the bombing that killed 168 people, started speaking to the FBI about his role in April at a federal prison in Florence, Colo., The Oklahoman reported in a copyright story in Sunday's editions. Nichols, 50, made similar disclosures to his mother, sister and first ex-wife last month. "I didn't like it. Oh, God, I said,...

During the 9/11 congressional hearings a year ago, there was a common question that the commissioners seemed to enjoy asking: Why was the U.S. not on “war footing” when the 9/11 attack occurred? If the government truly wanted to seek all information regarding intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, the Commission should have asked one of its own members about the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 171 lives a decade ago on April 19, 1995. In one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of the U.S., the federal government purposely avoided investigating incriminating evidence of a plot that pointed...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah...

Short audio segment here. Click on "Judge Won't Dismiss Nichols State Case" to listen. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1846269

Witnesses Testify to Seeing McVeigh 2 hours, 8 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer McALESTER, Okla. - Moments before a bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, Rodney Johnson turned the steering wheel of his catering truck to avoid two men hurrying from the building. One was Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites). AFP Slideshow: Oklahoma City Bombing Johnson identified McVeigh during questioning Thursday at the state murder trial of bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. His testimony is part of a defense strategy to suggest that McVeigh received substantial help from...

Hello All, I was wondering what kind of media coverage the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols is getting in your area. Aside from National Public Radio, of all places, the coverage here has been pitiful. The short NPR audio is disturbing. If the link does not take you there, go to www.npr.org and type Oklahoma into the search box in the upper-right. The story will be the second item that gets pulled up. Click on "Judge Won't Dismiss Nichols State Case", then "All Things Considered audio" to listen. Have a great weekend! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Judge Won't Dismiss Nichols State...

WASHINGTON - A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) may have had accomplices at the scene. "Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck," the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing...

by Jayna Davis Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were not the lone conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing -- the attack that killed nearly 170 people in a few short seconds. They were part of a greater scheme, one that involved Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq. That's the conclusion -- backed up by stunning evidence Written by the relentless reporter who first broke the story of the Mideast connection, is filled with new revelations about the case and explains in full detail the complete, and so far untold, story behind the failed investigation: why the...

Bloodthirsty. That is the only way to describe what is going on in McAlester, Okla., where Terry Lynn Nichols is standing trial on state charges stemming from the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people. Believe me, I understand the magnitude of the crime and its effect on individuals, a city and an entire country. I have been to the site where a federal building once stood and imagined the impact of the massive bomb that destroyed it -- killing all those people, wounding so many others, shattering the lives of those who knew and loved them and permanently scarring the...

FBI Probes McVeigh Omaha Connection Was Oklahoma City bomber involved in robbery spree? The FBI will examine files in three cities, including Omaha, to determine if Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was connected to a group involved in bank robberies during the 1990s. The Associated Press reported last week that FBI agents investigating the white supremacist Aryan Republican Army collected witness statements, blasting caps, and a driver's license that raised questions about whether the bank robbery gang might have assisted McVeigh's plot. The FBI is also looking at files in Philadelphia and Cleveland, where agents helped solve robberies linked...

The 3rd terrorist: Mideast tie to OKC bombing Investigative reporter provides convincing evidence of Islamic plot Posted: February 12, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were not the lone conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing but were part of a greater scheme involving Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq, according to a new release by WND Books. Backed by stunning evidence, author Jayna Davis explains in detail the complete, and so far untold, story behind the failed investigation in The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing." The investigative...

Mueller orders review of bombing investigation 2004-02-27 By JOHN SOLOMON .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI on Friday ordered a formal review of some aspects of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing investigation, reopening the question of whether Timothy McVeigh may have had more accomplices in the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history, The Associated Press has learned. Reacting to an AP story earlier this week, the FBI ordered agents to determine why some documents did not properly reach the bureau's Oklahoma City task force during the original investigation or get turned over to McVeigh's lawyers before...

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI agents destroyed evidence and failed to share other information that raised the possibility that a gang of white supremacist bank robbers may have assisted Timothy McVeigh during the Oklahoma City bombing, according to documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. Both the FBI supervisor who ran the Oklahoma City investigation and the veteran agent who was in command at the bombing scene say the new evidence, detailed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, is serious enough to warrant reopening the inquiry nine years later. The evidence, never shared with Oklahoma City investigators or defense lawyers, includes...

FBI Suspected McVeigh Link to Robbers JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON - The FBI believed Timothy McVeigh tried to recruit additional help in the days before the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and gathered evidence that white supremacist bank robbers may have become involved, according to government documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. The retired FBI chief of the Oklahoma City investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said he was unaware of some evidence obtained by The Associated Press and that the investigation should be reopened to determine whether the robbery gang was linked to McVeigh. The evidence never shared with Defenbaugh's investigators...

Oklahoma Bomber To Present Conspiracy Evidence ............ TIM TALLEY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) -- An Oklahoma judge has left the door open for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols to present evidence of a wider conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. But District Judge Steven Taylor said Monday that before a jury hears the evidence, Nichols must prove that additional conspirators committed specific, overt acts to plan and carry out the bombing. "Mr. Nichols is going to be allowed to present his defense,'' Taylor said, ruling that prosecution motions to prevent Nichols from presenting evidence of other bombing suspects were premature....

Did Nichols and Yousef meet? Closer analysis of Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef timelines creates a compelling, if still circumstantial, case — and offers clues to where the smoking guns may be found By J.M. BERGER INTELWIRE.com In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus in the Philippines. Whether their paths crossed is a question that still dogs researchers. But it's increasingly clear that what separates their respective itineraries is sometimes a matter of yards, feet or even inches, within a span of days, hours and sometimes mere minutes. They...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The possibility that a video exists showing the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building led to a search of a home in Virginia, but the man whose residence was searched said no such video was found. No such video has ever been seen publicly and it is not clear whether one exists. Depending on what was on such a video, it could conceivably be used as evidence in bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' trial on state murder charges, set to begin March 1. The search of John Culbertson's home in Centreville, Va., took place Friday. The...

The local news just broke into broadcasting to say that a judge has ruled the STATE trial of Terry Nichols for murder and his part in the OKC bombing can not be held in Oklahoma County because there is no chance of him getting a fair trial.

Oklahoma and the tantalising Iraqi connection May 4 2003 By Roger Franklin For the first time since the Alfred Murrah Building came down in Oklahoma City in 1995, the recent anniversary of the bombing that killed 168 people passed largely unnoticed in America. There were ceremonies, but the explosion's echo was hard to hear above the sound of Baghdad's toppling statues. According to investigators, the case was closed with Timothy McVeigh's execution. He was a wacko, the authorised version insists, a right-wing loner. Oklahoma's loose ends have all been tied up; time to move on. Except in an Oklahoma courtroom,...

<p>Amid speculation that President Bush is reconsidering what will constitute "regime change in Iraq," one thing should be clear: Saddam Hussein's willingness to "change" his attitude towards permitting the resumption of intrusive on-site U.N. weapons inspections will not, in fact, eliminate the danger posed by him and his ruling clique.</p>

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for a probe into allegations of a possible Iraqi connection between the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City six years earlier.Specter said he has no plans to pursue the investigation himself, however, but has written to FBI Director Robert Mueller suggesting that the possible connection is worth pursuing.Earlier this week, Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish wrote a column about the connection theory, which grew out of reports by Jayna Davis, a former television reporter from Oklahoma City who was one of the...

It seems only yesterday that 168 innocent Americans perished in Oklahoma City in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history – pre-9/11. After saving lives, the top priority on that fateful day was "Whodunit?" Then things got worse. As the nation tried to figure out "whodunit," the political left already had an answer, and no amount of facts would change it: "The killer was 'the political right.' " Mass Murderer #1: Conservative Talk Radio Remember? According to the left's account, there was one bomber, 150 million co-conspirators and, at the top, a few dozen hate-driven conservative talk radio show hosts...