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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
OKC BOMBING FALLOUT
9-11 panel confronts Freeh on Iraq link
Author of WND book says ex-FBI chief's response lends
credibility
Posted: April 14, 2004
3:20 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Sept. 11 Commission testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh
yesterday lent credibility to a theory that Iraq was behind the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing, according to an investigative reporter whose new
book on the subject was addressed at the hearing.
Jayna Davis, author of "The Third
Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City
Bombing," told WorldNetDaily Freeh's "carefully parsed" response to a
question about her findings "expressed his belief that the book is a
credible source."
The new release by WND Books
presents substantial evidence of Iraqi involvement and a refusal by
federal government agents to investigate the bombing that killed nearly
170 people in April 19, 1995.
Davis repeatedly has tried since 1997, with no success, to convince the
FBI to examine her investigation.
Yesterday, however, Lehman brought the issue before the 9-11 Commission
with the former FBI director on the witness stand.
LEHMAN: One last question. The Oklahoma City case – again,
one of the criticisms has been that one of the problems of the case law
approach to intelligence is that, once you focus on a convicting
particular terrorists, that there has to be a hypothesis of the case and
that's where all of the investigative resources are put in. In the case
of Oklahoma City, the hypothesis was that there were two Americans and
they acted alone. There's a new book out now, as you probably know,
called The Third Terrorist, that has new information that begs for
further investigation showing the links or purporting very significant
links between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines, and
also links between the two perpetrators and Hussein al-Husseini, the
Iraqi, perhaps, agent. Are you satisfied that you ran all of these
potential Al Qaida links to ground with McVeigh and Nichols?
FREEH: Well, other than that book, which I haven't read, you know, I
don't know any other credible source with respect to that kind of a
link. No, I have not run those links myself. I certainly was not aware
of them when I was FBI director. I know that there is a review going on
with respect to some of the matters that have been raised by his
attorney in connection with the state murder prosecution that's ongoing.
I guess I don't want to say anything with respect to that case as it's
being tried now by a judge and a jury. But I don't know of any
connections, except the one you've just mentioned, between Ramzi Yousef
and that terrorist act.
Davis noted Freeh was careful to say he knew of no other "credible
source," instead of dismissing the premise of the book outright.
"I find it very encouraging," she said, "because every time the FBI has
been asked to officially comment in any fashion about my research, we have
the same canned response that the Department of Justice is confident that
all those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing have been arrested,
charged and prosecuted."
Or we hear, she continued, "that the FBI dedicated an untold number of
resource and manpower into the largest criminal investigation of the 20th
century and turned up no credible evidence of a Middle East connection."
Freeh's response, Davis emphasized, is "huge."
"He would not rule it out," she said.
Davis said it's possible Freeh was not aware during his time as FBI
director of any credible sources linking Iraq to the bombing.
"It was my impression he was being sincere," she said. "According to my
sources in the FBI, he was last to know anything."
Davis's reporting was vetted by former CIA director James Woolsey and
given credibility by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last
April when it dismissed a lawsuit filed against her after finding
"defendants did not recklessly disregard the truth" in reporting on an
Iraqi soldier's alleged involvement in the bombing.
"After eight years of oppressive litigation, the courts have vindicated
my work ethic as a dedicated journalist," Davis told WorldNetDaily at the
time. "The lawsuit was obviously designed to silence a legitimate
investigation into Middle Eastern complicity in the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing."
In an interview
with WND in October 2001, attorney David Schippers, who prosecuted the
House of Representatives' impeachment case against Bill Clinton, said his
examination of the evidence Davis presented him was conclusive.
"I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern
connection in the Oklahoma City bombing," he said.
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