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Subject: ### OKC Bombshell Implicates Feds In Murrah Blast ###
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:27:52 -0500
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OKC Bombshell Implicates Feds In Murrah Blast
After nearly a decade, shocking, suppressed evidence emerges
By Pat Shannan
Only moments after an enormous blast blew away most of the facade and
a full quarter of the eastern end of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City in 1995, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (BATF) began to release evidence implicating two men, and two men
only, who they claimed were solely responsible. The evidence later showed
that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had confessed to the impossible.
At first, several independent investigators came forward to complain
that there was an obvious cover-up. Now they call it the "ongoing cover-up
of the cover-up." And now, even the new OKC museum contradicts the official
theory of what happened on April 19.
Officials in charge at the time still refuse to discuss anything other
than the manufactured spin: McVeigh and Nichols, as convicted by the courts,
mixed up a large batch of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO-a mild explosive
used by farmers to blow out stumps) and demolished several square blocks of
downtown Oklahoma City with a devastating blast that could be heard miles
away.
In reality, the ANFO story was born only 10 minutes after the blast
when a high-ranking BATF official by the name of Harry Everhart witnessed
the blast from nearby and called the BATF office in Dallas to excitedly
announce, "Someone has just blown up the federal building in Oklahoma City
with a truckload of ANFO!"
Some reporters and investigators, who have looked objectively at the
bombing, now argue that neither Everhart nor anyone else could have
correctly deduced in such a short time exactly what caused the explosion.
According to government documents released later, Ever hart was
experienced in loading large amounts of ammonium nitrate fertilizer into a
vehicle for use as a terrorist truck bomb, and his presence in the midst of
the second worst terrorist attack in U.S. history looms suspicious to this
day.
Records indicate that this ANFO explosives expert and his associates
had destroyed at least eight vehicles in "test bombing experiments" at a
secret range in the New Mexico desert in the 12 months prior to the OKC
bombing.
Everhart and his fellow specialists even photographed and videotaped
these truck bombs as they detonated.
Far from an anti government militia member, the vehicle bomb expert
was Special Agent Everhart, an employee of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and
Firearms. And, according to federal government records obtained later,
Everhart had been instrumental in obtaining the government funding to
perform the ANFO bombing tests.
Everhart served on the National Response Team (NRT), a group of
experienced bomb and arson investigators who respond to major bombing crime
scenes throughout the United States.
He also served on a secret government project in 1994 that conducted
tests using ANFO and C-4 to blow up cars and vans in a classified U.S.
government experiment known as "Project Dipole Might."
According to files, reports and photographs obtained from the
Department of the Treasury through a Freedom of Information Act request, the
U.S. government initiated a "comprehensive ANFO and C-4 vehicle bomb testing
program" about a year before the OKC bombing. Records show the project was
supervised and administered by the BATF, but was actually funded through a
National Security Council (NSC) directive.
The Department of Treasury has confirmed the project was initiated
under President Bill Clinton's NSC staff shortly after he took office in
1993.
The intent of the Dipole Might experiments in 1994 includes making
videos and computer models to "be displayed in a courtroom to aid in the
prosecution of defendants" in vehicle bomb cases, according to government
documents. The exact precedent and purpose of this activity is unclear. BATF
agents started blowing up vans and cars in the spring of 1994 at the White
Sands Missile Range in order to collect test data for post-blast forensics
computer software packages to be issued out to National Response Team
personnel when they respond to truck bombings.
Why the NSC would fund such a BATF project-despite the rarity of the
crime-has not been explained.
Nor has it been explained as to what specific threat-assessment
information the government had when it decided to engage in such a project,
just a few months before officials claimed a Ryder truck laden with ammonium
nitrate fertilizer exploded in front of the Murrah building.
The only major ANFO vehicle bombing in U.S. history, prior to OKC,
occurred in August 1970 at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wis.
Contrary to media reports, the World Trade Center bomb of February
1993 was composed of urea nitrate, not ANFO, according to the FBI.
Despite only one known case in almost 25 years, why did Clinton's NSC
anticipate a need for detailed information regarding ANFO vehicle bomb
attacks a few months prior to the Oklahoma City blast?
Treasury's own official documents reveal the intensity of interest. In
fact, a brief summary of "Project Dipole Might" is featured in BATF's 1994
Annual Report to Congress.
There were enough clandestine characters hanging around Oklahoma City
to fill a James Bond movie during the days prior to the crime.
BATF's paid informant Carol Howe had provided information that the
Murrah building was one of three potential targets.
On April 6, Cary Gagan gave U.S. marshals in Denver the information
that "a federal building would be blown up in either Denver or Oklahoma City
within two weeks." He had not only personally delivered timers and blasting
caps to a Middle Eastern group, but had sat in on a meeting where the
blueprints of the Murrah Building were on display.
Then, 38 minutes before the blasts on April 19, the Department of
Justice in Washington received an anonymous telephone call warning that the
Murrah Building was about to be blown up but took no action.
After a morning of reporting that "multiple bombs" had been found in
the Murrah debris-a report publicly confirmed by the Gov. Frank Keating-and
that rescue operations had been halted for two hours while these unexploded
bombs were removed, news people suddenly began to spin the government yarn
about an ANFO bomb being responsible for the enormous damage.
One of the problems with that theory was the fact that the columns
remained standing directly across the sidewalk from the truck as opposed to
those that had collapsed more than 50 feet away. A retired air force
brigadier general with 30 years experience compiled an irrefutable report on
this subject, which showed exactly where the charges were placed inside the
building.
It was so irrefutable that the prosecution refused to allow him to
testify at the Denver trial as it would have destroyed any ANFO theory that
the government had already sold to the American people.
On May 23, 1995, only 34 days after the explosions, the federal
government stonewalled all attempts to examine the building's remaining
structure and carried out an ordered demolition, destroying and burying
forever what many believed contained the evidence of many explosions.
In its issue of Oct. 11, 19, as well as other issues, the now defunct
weekly Spotlight newspaper fully covered the Oklahoma City incident and
conclusively proved the accuracy of reporter Shannan's above story. The
bombing was definitely a federal government operation; just why Nichols and
McVeigh confessed is a mystery that forbids the closure of the case.
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