-Caveat Lector- Tuesday August 7 9:24 PM ET Author Gore Vidal Thinks McVeigh Had Help -Magazine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Author Gore Vidal, who maintained a three-year correspondence with executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites), says he is convinced that McVeigh acted as part of a conspiracy. In an article in the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine published on Tuesday, Vidal asks of McVeigh's insistence that he acted alone: ``Was (he) being a good soldier covering up for others? Or did he, perhaps now, see himself in a historic role (as abolitionist John Brown) with his own Harper's ferry, and though his ashes molder in the grave, his spirit is marching on?'' Citing material provided to him by investigative reporter Joel Dyer, Vidal concludes that there is overwhelming evidence of a plot involving militia groups and government infiltrators to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building (news - web sites) in Oklahoma City. The April 20, 1995 bombing claimed 168 lives in the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Vidal also quotes a letter to him from McVeigh, who was executed in June for the bombing, in which the Gulf War (news - web sites) veteran explained why he bombed the Murrah building: ``I chose to bomb a federal building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost the bombing was a retaliatory strike, a counterattack, for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in the previous year (including but not limited to Waco) ... Our government, like the Chinese, was deploying tanks against its own people.' In the materials given to Vidal, Dyer said that credible experts believed that McVeigh neither built nor detonated the bomb that blew up the Murrah building and that some experts believe that a single fertilizer bomb could not have caused that amount of damage. Dyer also said that there were new findings that 10 witnesses saw a group of men in or near the Ryder truck that was believed used in the explosion shortly before it was taken to Oklahoma City and that at least one of the men was a known militia figure. Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
