-Caveat Lector- >From Reuters, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010531/ts/mcveigh_conspiracy_dc_1.html - Thursday May 31 McVeigh Request Renews Conspiracy Mystery By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The request on Thursday by Timothy McVeigh for a delay in his execution breathes new life into the theory of a broader conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to eyewitnesses who say they saw other mysterious figures with McVeigh in the days before the blast. Comments by McVeigh's attorney Richard Burr renewed the speculation, in particular about the shadowy stranger who came to be known as John Doe No. 2, they said. Burr said in a news conference in Terre Haute, Ind., where McVeigh is on federal death row, that ``if the evidence comes out as we believe it is there, that there will be some credible evidence that other people were involved.'' In seeking a delay in McVeigh's June 11 execution, his attorneys accused the U.S. government of fraud for failing to turn over evidence it had collected before his trial. The FBI recently revealed that it failed to disclose thousands of documents in the case, including interviews with eyewitnesses. One eyewitness, Jeff Davis, who delivered Chinese food to an unidentified stranger in McVeigh's Kansas motel room four days before the bombing, said the developments could give more credibility to his and others' accounts. ``I'm not the only person that put somebody other than McVeigh there,'' Davis said from his job at the U.S. Army base at Fort Riley, Kansas. ``One person can be a crackpot. You get more than one, and it kind of loses the crackpot theory.'' The government has declared that John Doe No. 2 was a case of mistaken identity and does not exist. It said nothing in the newly discovered documents links anyone else to the bombing. Along with Davis, other witnesses in the vicinity of Junction City, Kansas, where McVeigh stayed prior to the bombing, also said they saw him in the company of people still unidentified. The owner of the motel where he stayed has said she heard several voices coming late one night from McVeigh's room. A waitress saw him eat lunch with three other men just days before the bombing, while the owner of a diner in nearby Herington said she saw McVeigh and convicted co-conspirator Terry Nichols with a third, darker muscular man. Others say McVeigh was not alone when he rented the Ryder truck to carry the bomb, two days before the blast when Nichols was home with his family. Others saw a Ryder truck parked at Geary Lake days before McVeigh parked his truck there. QUESTION OVER DEATH PENALTY McVeigh's attorney said one of those witnesses kept the jury in Nichols' trial from voting for the death penalty. ``That witness was deemed to be credible by the jury and in interviews after Mr. Nichols' trial, many of them said, 'We decided not to sentence him to death because we believed on the basis of that one witness' testimony there were other people involved,''' Burr said. Georgia Rucker, a Herington resident who saw a second, earlier truck at Geary Lake, said she still believes McVeigh should die, despite what she and others may have seen. ``I believe there were other people involved, yes,'' she said on Thursday. ``I don't believe taking this back to trial is going to solve any problems. I believe that enough evidence came out against McVeigh that he is guilty and deserves the death penalty.'' Burr told reporters the evidence question could affect the death penalty imposed on McVeigh since there was evidence that Nichols was spared the death penalty because jurors thought others might have been involved. The jury forewoman in Nichols' trial, Nikki Deutchman, said on the day of his guilty verdict that she was convinced that other people had been involved in the bombing. ``I think the government dropped the ball, and that there are people who were very actively involved in this horrible crime,'' she said then. Recently, she said she feels the same way. ``I'm puzzled. I think there's a lot more to the story. I don't know what it is,'' she said from her home in Denver. Asked if justice had been done in the Oklahoma City bombing case, she said: ``Justice? We're not nearly there.'' <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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