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Subject: 30 OKC Bombing Questions
Thirty Oklahoma City Bombing Questions
That Demand an Answer NOW!
>From Team Infinity
http://TeamInfinity.com/
Despite Timothy McVeigh's guilty verdict, numerous unanswered questions about the
murderous
Oklahoma City bombing remain. Indeed, there are so many unanswered questions, it is
amazing
that the prosecution was able to secure a conviction at all.
So pull up a front-row seat for the McVeigh lynching, folks, and contemplate a few of
the
contradictions in the official account of the OKC bombing before it all gets flushed
down the
memory hole. If this list doesn't make you paranoid, you must be one of them!
[To read the startling evidence which the jury was barred from hearing, be sure to
check out
Timothy McVeigh's Writ of Mandamus, posted by TeamInfinity.com.]
1.
If the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City was a
terrorist reprisal
for the Federal massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, why were no BATF or FBI
agents
injured? Why was EVERY BADGE-CARRYING FEDERAL AGENT absent from work at nine
o'clock on a weekday morning, their offices staffed only with civilian clerical
workers?
2.
When the word first got out that no Federal agents had been present in the building,
the BATF
produced its Resident Agent Alex McCauley who told a long story about his own heroism
and
that of a fellow ATF man who allegedly fell three floors in an elevator, walked away
from it, and
then helped rescue others trapped by the bomb. This was quickly exposed as a
fabrication in an
angry interview by building maintenance supervisor Duane James, who described
McCauley's
story as "pure fantasy". James examined the elevator in question and also the central
control
panel and pointed out a number of technical and logical reasons why the miraculous
elevator
incident simply couldn't have happened in the way claimed. The McCauley account was
quietly
retracted and flushed down the memory hole by the ATF, with the help of the media.
They now
admit that McCauley was nowhere near the building when the bomb went off, although they
refuse to discuss his exact whereabouts or the whereabouts of any other ATF agent at
the time of
the explosion.
Will BATF Agent Alex McCauley be disciplined for telling a self-serving lie which
falsely made
himself out to be a hero? If that was not the purpose, why did he make this palpably
false public statement?
3.
Why was U.S. Judge Wayne Alley, whose office was located in the Federal building,
warned
several weeks in advance in a Justice Department memo to be prepared for an unnamed
"terrorist
act" directed against the Federal building?
4.
Judge Alley made the above admission to the Portland Oregonian immediately after the
bombing. He has since refused to repeat it or allow himself to be interviewed again.
Why?
5.
Why did Ken Stern fax warnings to Federal judges and officials, legislators, and
prosecutors
warning of a possible attack on a government building of installation on the second
anniversary
of Waco on April 10th, 1995, nine days before the OKC bombing?
6.
"Norma," a witness who worked in an office building just down the street from the
Federal
building, told reporter Sherry Koonce what she saw prior to the explosion: "The day
was fine,
everything was normal when I arrived for work at about 7:45 a.m. There was some talk
about the
bomb squad among the employees at our office. We wondered what it was doing in our
parking
lot. Around nine I heard and felt a huge explosion. Then someone said it had to be a
bomb, and
we all knew. I remembered the bomb squad in our parking lot and knew what had
happened."
"Norma" has since quit her job, gone into hiding and refused to speak again to any
reporters or
investigators. So have a number of other people who saw the heavily armed and equipped
bomb
squad in the area up to three hours before the blast. Why?
7.
Why did all mention of the facts outlined in questions 1 thru 6 disappeared from the
news media
after the first week of coverage of the bombing? Why has the media consistently
suppressed and
refused to report any information or evidence which indicates that, at the very least
and
regardless of who was responsible, there was Federal foreknowledge that the bombing
would
take place?
8.
By definition, a terrorist must take credit for his violence, or else there is no
compelling reason to
commit a crime. The specific purpose of terrorism is to gain a political end through
the credible
threat to commit future acts of violence. No one has claimed credit for the Oklahoma
City
bombing. Militia and right-wing groups, the alleged masterminds and presumed
beneficiaries,
have been particularly vehement in denouncing the explosion and in many cases have
cooperated
directly with Federal agencies to absolve themselves of any involvement. The only
statement of
alleged political motive comes from the very government which was attacked. Why is
this?
9.
Did the Alfred Murrah building warehouse documents relating to the attack on the Branch
Davidians at Waco? If so, what happened to those documents? Were they destroyed? If
so, were
any copies kept elsewhere? If not, why not?
10.
Will the missing papers, if any, affect former Attorney General Ramsey Clark's lawsuit
against
the ATF and FBI on behalf of the Branch Davidian survivors?
11.
Why did the Director of the University of Oklahoma's Geological Survey, Dr. Charles
Mankin,
tell the media that according to two different seismographic records there were TWO
blasts, the
second approximately eight seconds after the first?
12.
The news media initially reported that there were two explosions, based on eyewitness
testimony.
Why did this version of events disappear from print and the air waves within
twenty-four hours?
13.
According to the prosecution, McVeigh used an ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil) bomb
to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. McGyver makes it look real easy on
TV. But
according to Department of the Army and Air Force Technical Manual No. 9-1910, entitled
Military Explosives, ANFO requires a greater than 99% purity of ammonium nitrate, as
well as a
specific dryness, before it can be mixed with diesel fuel to create an explosive
substance. The
manual further spells out that even under ideal conditions (not often reached even by
experts)
4,800 pounds of ANFO explosive would create a much smaller crater than the one left in
front of
the Murrah building, and its shock wave could not possibly wield the force necessary to
compromise the building's concrete support structure. The FBI claims that the ANFO
charge was
made from 50 bags of fertilizer. Ammonium nitrate fertilizers comes in much weaker
concentrations than the 99%-plus required for explosives. Creating concentrated
amounts of
ammonium nitrate is quite complex, and would require many bags of fertilizer. In short,
according to the government's own textbook, the Oklahoma City bombing COULD NOT HAVE
HAPPENED IN THE WAY THE FBI SAYS IT HAPPENED. IT IS A PHYSICAL,
CHEMICAL, AND THERMODYNAMIC IMPOSSIBILITY. Why is the FBI lying?
14.
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, former commander of the Air Force
Armament Technology Laboratory, a 25-year expert in the design and development of
bombs,
urged Senators and Congressmen to delay the destruction of the Murrah building site.
Partin
stated in a news release, "When I first saw the picture of the truck bomb's
asymmetrical damage
to the Federal building in Oklahoma, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of
damage
would have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition charges at
some of
the reinforced concrete bases inside the building, a standard demolition technique."
Partin further
explained that "reinforced concrete targets in large buildings are hard targets to
blast. I know of
no way possible to reproduce the apparent building damage through simply a truck bomb
effort."
General Partin's request to have the bomb site preserved in order to examine the
possibility of a
second explosion was ignored by the government. Why?
15.
General Partin's press release, quoted above, was reprinted in the John Birch Society
magazine
New American. Based on this the news media launched an egregious and bogus smear
campaign
against General Benton K. Partin, claiming falsely that he was a member of the John
Birch
Society and therefore a "right-wing extremist". [General Partin's report has been
widely
circulated and reproduced, including an electronic version here on ParaScope.] General
Partin
has been forced repeatedly to threaten lawsuits in order to obtain grudging and
deliberately
downplayed retractions and corrections of this allegation. His alleged JBS membership
still
appears in print and broadcast media today as fact, even though the media are by now
perfectly
well aware that the allegation is false. Why are the news media telling a deliberate
lie in order to
discredit a highly respected expert who questions the official government version of
Oklahoma City?
16.
There have been repeated studies done by a variety of accredited explosives experts and
professional demolition contractors, such as former FBI agent Ted Gunderson. All of
these have
stated their professional opinion that the destruction of the Murrah building could
only have been
accomplished with top-grade military explosives, detonators, and careful placement of
multiple
charges. Why have the media ignored these expert opinions? Why, indeed, have the media
engaged in a concerted campaign to abuse, vilify, discredit and marginalize as a
"crank" or a
"right-wing extremist" any explosives expert or engineer who questions the official
FBI version
of the bomb's construction and explosive power?
17.
There is not a single piece of concrete evidence to connect either Timothy McVeigh or
Terry
Nichols to any militia or right-wing group. Why has the news media refused to
acknowledge this
fact and continued to spread the patently false assertion that McVeigh was a member of
a militia group?
18.
Terry Nichols has been married twice, once to a Mexican woman and once to a Filipina.
Obviously, a man who marries women of color not once but twice and has children with
them
can hardly be called a racist. Why has this fact, which clearly precludes any racist
or neo-Nazi
involvement in the bombing of the kind implied by the media, not been given any
significant
exposure at all? And why has the media ignored connections between the Oklahoma City
bombing and the very real, very racist Elohim City compound in Arkansas, not to mention
Andreas Strassmeir, grandson of one of the founders of the Nazi party in Germany?
19.
Having allegedly just committed a coldly calculated, carefully and meticulously
planned mass
murder, why did Timothy McVeigh then suddenly turn into a Clouseau-like klutz and do
everything but send up a flare to draw attention to himself? Why did he go speeding
out of the
state at almost 100 mph in a yellow car with no license plate, virtually guaranteeing
that he
would be stopped?
20.
Timothy McVeigh is a highly trained combat NCO who won a Bronze Star for courage under
fire
in the Gulf. Having been stopped by a state trooper, being armed with a pistol, and
knowing that
he now faced either execution or imprisonment for the rest of his natural life, why
did McVeigh
make no move at all to defend himself or escape, instead surrendering like a little
lamb?
21.
FBI agents are said to have tracked down McVeigh's truck rental agency by finding a
vehicle
identification number (VIN) on the truck's rear axle. This axle was found either in
the bomb
crater, according to the mayor of Oklahoma City's initial press statement, or three
blocks away
according to the later FBI version. Which statement is true?
22.
There is another problem to the Ryder truck tale. No rear axle on any vehicle
manufactured in
America is imprinted with a VIN, even after recent legislation forcing manufacturers
to place
multiple VINS on the engine, firewall, and frame to discourage chop shops. When
queried, a
spokesman for Ryder told reporters than it does not imprint additional VINS on its
trucks. The
only conceivable number available on a rear axle is a part number, but a part number
couldn't
lead to the identification of a specific vehicle. We have here another case where the
FBI version
of events simply COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED in the way the Bureau claims it happened.
Where did the VIN story come from? Why has it been created and circulated by the media?
23.
Did McVeigh use fake I.D. or his real I.D. to rent the truck? The FBI has relayed both
stories as
being true.
24.
The FBI detained and interrogated Timothy McVeigh's young sister Jennifer and Terry
Nichols'
twelve year-old son. They announced in the media that both of them were suspects and
that
Jennifer McVeigh was facing indictment and the death penalty. These charges later
vanished, and
both young people were released. While undergoing harsh FBI interrogation, Jennifer
McVeigh
was exposed to projections of shocking, graphic images of bombing victims. What is the
story here?
25.
Who is John Doe Number Two? Does he exist at all? The FBI first conducted a nationwide
manhunt for JD-2 over a period of several weeks. Then they claimed that a U.S. Army
soldier on
leave, whose published photographs bear no resemblance whatsoever to the photofits,
was JD-2.
Then they claimed for some months that JD-2 does not exist, and that all the witnesses
who saw
him were mistaken. Now they are hedging again and say they have an "open mind" about
whether John Doe Number Two exists. What's the deal?
26.
In January of 1996, National Public Radio broadcast a half-hour special containing
interviews
with half a dozen witnesses who personally saw John Doe Number Two in the Ryder truck
with
Timothy McVeigh on the morning of the bombing. These witnesses all had one thing in
common; other than a cursory preliminary interview by the FBI they had up until that
time been
approached by neither the prosecution nor the defense to appear as witnesses at the
trial. Why
not? Will any witnesses who saw John Doe Number Two be called to testify?
27.
In the summer of 1995 a mysterious American named Daniel Spiegelman was arrested in the
Netherlands for trafficking in stolen diamonds and antiques. In July of 1995 the Janet
Reno
Justice Department quietly applied for Spiegelman's extradition to the United States IN
CONNECTION WITH THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. This was accompanied by
representations at the highest level demanding that the Netherlands courts hear the
case in camera
and that the proceedings be kept completely secret.
Through his attorney Spiegelman fought extradition, a Dutch judge refused to impose
secrecy on
the hearing, the media got hold of it, and Janet Reno allegedly withdrew the
extradition request,
whereupon the entire bizarre episode vanished from public view. No more media blackout
in the
OKC case has been more pervasive than the blackout imposed over the name of Daniel
Spiegelman; it is as if he has stepped off the face of the planet.
Who is Daniel Spiegelman? What connection does he have with Oklahoma City? Is he John
Doe
Number Two? Does he know who John Doe Number Two is?
28.
FBI informant and star witness Michael Fortier, who admits to trading his testimony
for lenient
sentencing on gun charges himself, claims that he and Timothy McVeigh scouted out the
Murrah
building several weeks in advance looking for the BATF offices therein. If that is
true, why did
Timothy McVeigh stop the Ryder truck at a gas station on the morning of the bombing
and ask
directions to the building? And why did he park the truck on the side of the building
the farthest
away from the BATF offices, when there was an available parking lot which would have
placed
the truck bomb almost directly under the seventh-floor windows of the BATF?
29.
Why was the reaction of the Clinton administration, blaming right-wing radio talk
shows for the
incident and demanding the most draconian police state legislation ever proposed in
the United
States, so swift and obviously organized? The air of orchestration about the entire
government
response did not escape notice even at the time, and was commented on by a number of
observers
across the political spectrum.
A blizzard of OKC-inspired "domestic terrorism" bills were rushed into Congress in a
matter of
days, some of them pre-written and already printed up BEFORE THE BOMBING. These
proposed laws cover everything from banning virtually all privately owned firearms to
unlimited
and court-admissible Federal wiretaps to censorship of the Internet to the suspension
of habeas
corpus in "terrorism" cases to the grotesque destruction of the First Amendment
advocated in
Charles Schumer's bill H.R. 2580, which imposes a five-year prison sentence for
publicly
engaging in "unseemly speculation" and publishing or transmitting by wire or
electronic means
"baseless conspiracy theories regarding the Federal government of the United States".
Who
decides what is a "baseless conspiracy theory'? Why, the very same government, of
course.
How was a normally cumbersome, inefficient, and glacially slow legislative branch able
to move
so quickly, so comprehensively, and so efficiently in introducing these laws which
will strip
Americans of what remaining freedoms they have?
30.
Why did it take so unconscionably long for the trial of Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols to
begin?
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