A bunch of serving FBI agents went back and looked at evidence collected, processed, analyzed and determined by FBI agents. Am I the only one who sees a problem here? As for conspiracy theories, this guy lost a book buy from me by suggesting that that is all that stands against the official accounts. How about Terry Nichols and his frequent trips to the Philippines, his connections to Abu Sayef and alleged meetings with no less than Ramzi Yousef of the 1993 WTC bombing fame. Ohhhh, THAAAAT conspiracy theory. Yeah, musta forgot to even talk about THAT one.. I can understand a cover-up while on the job to protect national secrets--or Bill Clinton--hey, they pay your check. But to go out into the real world and then write a book that essentially reinforces the BS cover story that never convinced anybody, and you tend to piss me off. Timothy McVeigh wrote an essay in prison basically praising Saddam and talking about nuclear warfare and, if I remember correctly, he said some nice things about another old icon of this story, Ramsey Clark, another buddy of Saddam Hussein. It is one thing to be too incompetent or dishonest to find all of these links at the time, but I will flat-out be damned if I will pay a penny for this guy's book on top of it. That whole line about a telephone credit card is absolute nonsense. They didn't need to contact their al-Qaeda connections after they had ironed everything out in the Philippines and in previous contacts. If this guy is truly dumb enough to think that that, alone, is enough to "dispel a conspiracy," he's an idiot. Would he like to explain where Nichols and McVeigh got the training on how to arrange the ANFO containers in the truck? Hello, Ryder truck in Oklahoma and Ryder Truck in WTC. And let's not forget that one of the internet propagandists trying to blame the Navy for TWA 800 was linked to Ramsey Clark. Oh, he apologized for lying about TWA 800 (once he was proven to be a liar), but he then switched to making Waco seem like a massacre by the FBI and DEA. Who else was stirring things up over Waco? Ramsey Clark, who jumped in to be the lawyer for the Branch Davidians suing the US government for the alleged Waco massacre. Again, Ramsey Clark, pal of Saddam, buddy of Ian Goddard, an anti-American propagandist who tried to discredit any connection to a Muslim terrorist attack on TWA 800, and claims Ramsey Clark as his idol. And let's not forget Parvez Syed, the other internet propagandist, working with Goddard and a few others, to discredit any notion of an Islamic missile attack while relentlessly claiming a US Navy missile attack (not accident, mind you, but deliberate, according to them) Syed's little group in London, Shanti RTV was found linked to an al-Qaeda website several years ago, one that had photos of no less than Osama bin-Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini, and no less than one Saddam Hussein at the top. And the FBI just happened to miss all of this, just as they could never quite seem to figure out that it was al-Qaeda and Iran that bombed the Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a year after OKC? All of this omitted, and yet this guy manages to get a book deal that people are to take seriously? I'll save my money for something more useful, thank you. The title of the headline ought to read: "Book TRIES to Dispel Okla City Bomb Conspiracy--And Fails." Ron
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htmW-Tq6vbile_R0CSt7r8W2DpDAD8T41LK00 Book Dispels Okla. City Bomb Conspiracy 1 day ago OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A team of FBI agents that re-examined the Oklahoma City bombing after a resurgence in conspiracy theories uncovered no new reliable leads, the man who initially supervised the bureau's investigation told a newspaper. In his new memoir, "On-Scene Commander," former FBI deputy director Weldon Kennedy criticizes those who believe federal authorities did not find all the people involved in the terrorist attack's planning. He spoke to The Oklahoman newspaper for a story in Saturday's editions. "There's no possible way there were other conspirators," Kennedy wrote. "I can say with total confidence that we identified all three conspirators in the case and arrested them." The bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was executed in 2001. Of his friends linked to the case, Terry Nichols is serving life in federal prison for his role in the attack and Michael Fortier spent years in prison for his crimes before being released last year. Kennedy oversaw the agency's probe during the first couple of months after the April 19, 1995, attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building near downtown Oklahoma City. He also served as spokesman for the FBI at news conferences. He told the newspaper that he learned of the re-examination of the bombing, which killed 168, "through my continuing association with contemporaries in the FBI and so forth." "I've not seen any of the documents ... but I'm told that that review was very comprehensive and quite conclusive that there was ... no lead, no avenue unexplored, in the entire case," he said. In his book, Kennedy wrote that the mysterious "John Doe No. 2" turned out to be "someone's memory playing tricks on him." FBI sketches of "John Doe No. 2" were released worldwide after witnesses said that man was with McVeigh when the bomb truck was rented in Junction City, Kan. Kennedy said he is certain there are no others involved in the bombing because McVeigh and Nichols used a telephone calling card - purchased under a fake name - in their plot to find bombing materials and to keep in contact. The FBI was able to track where the two called. "If there in fact was another conspirator, I am absolutely convinced that we would have been able to identify him through the telephone (records) and through other investigation that we did which was exhaustive," he said. Kennedy, 69, was the special agent in charge in Arizona when FBI Director Louis Freeh tapped him to head up the initial bombing investigation in Oklahoma City. He retired from the agency in 1997. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
