The OKC Bombing Chronology You're NOT Supposed To
Know
"Sgt. McVeigh was an outstanding soldier. He did what he was told,
anticipated what had to be done (and) took pride in his work,"
- Capt. Jesus Angel Rodriguez,
McVeigh's commanding
officer
during the Gulf War,
testifying at his sentencing hearing
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It's called a Reichstag Fire
The OKC Chronology you're not supposed to know
1. A second bomb found inside the building
SUSANNE SEALY, Correspondent: Yes, LEA [sp], I can. The
Oklahoma
City police and the FBI have confirmed there is another bomb
in
the Federal Building. It's in the east side of the building.
They've moved everybody back several blocks.
CNN SHOW: NEWS 11:27 am ET - LIVE April 19, 1995
Transcript # 920-19
2. Forget the people, get those papers
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Hours after a bomb ripped apart the
federal
building, some rescue workers were stopped from searching
for
survivors while federal officials removed boxes of documents.
"You'd think they would have let their evidence and files
sit
at least until the last survivor was pulled out," one
angry
rescue worker told The News.
The worker and a firefighter said that 10 to 12 hours after
the
9 a.m. blast April 19, federal officials began limiting the
number of rescue workers in the building to a dozen,
confining
them largely to the lower right side of the battered structure.
Source: New York Daily News
3. FBI quietly drops pursuit of John Doe No. 2
Denver, Colo. -- An internal FBI memo indicates FBI agents
suspended their search for the elusive Oklahoma City bomb
suspect John Doe No. 2 in the critical weeks soon after the
April 1995 blast, belying assurances by federal officials
at
the time that the search was continuing.
The memo, the existence of which is publicly disclosed for
the
first time here, undercuts the government contention
that
federal agents have done everything they can to find the
mystery
suspect...
In the memo, San Francisco-based FBI agent Thomas Ravenelle
writes that he's discontinuing efforts to investigate a lead
relating to attempts to find and identify John Doe No. 2
"in
view of the fact that the Oklahoma City Command Post
has
directed all offices to hold (John Doe No. 2) leads in
abeyance."
Source: 1997 Digital City Denver
4. McVeigh's first confession faked by newspaper
"The document containing a purported confession by
alleged
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, published by
the
Dallas Morning News, was fabricated by an investigator for
the defense team, a friend of the investigator said yesterday."
The Washington Post 03/05/97 By Lois Romano and Tom
Kenworthy,
Washington Post Staff Writers
5. DOJ report calls FBI's OJC bomb blast conclusions:
"incomplete... inappropriate... scientifically insupportable"
"Williams' report contains several serious flaws. His opinion
as
to the VOD of the main charge was unjustifiable; his statement
of the VOD of ANFO was incomplete; his categorical
identification of the main charge as ANFO was inappropriate;
his
estimate of the weight of the main charge was too specific
and
based in part on improper grounds; his conclusion as to the
containers for the main charge was unjustifiably categorical;
his categorical identification of the initiator for the
booster
was improper; his conclusions concerning a non-electric
detonator, the fuse, and the time delay were
scientifically
insupportable; his conclusions were not supported by the
contents of the report; and he included some AE dictation in
a
selective or confusing way. These errors were all tilted in
such
a way as to incriminate the defendants. We are troubled that
the
opinions in Williams' report may have been tailored to conform
to the evidence associated with the defendants. We conclude
that
Williams failed to present an objective, unbiased,
competent
report."
Source: The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into
Laboratory
Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related
and
Other Cases (April,1997) - A USDOJ/OIG Special Report
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/fbilab1/fbil1toc.htm
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* A timely terrorist
He wanted to start a revolution, but even with years of prison
to sort out his thoughts he never found the time to write
even
the briefest of manifestos. Fellow inmates said he spent his
time reading car magazines.
He wanted to protest the murder of innocent women and children
-
so he murdered innocent women and children.
He was a crack marksman, good enough to reportedly haven
taken
the head off an Iraqi soldier in a machine gun nest at 1,000
yards - but he chose a complex truck bomb, something he had
no
training or experience with, to deliver his violent message.
Tim McVeigh was a most convenient and cooperative terrorist.
The government wanted the world to believe that a single
truck
bomb loaded with fertilizer destroyed the Murrah Building -
and
at the end of his life, McVeigh apparently told two
journalists
that the story was true. That he lit the fuse personally in
traffic while on the way to the building. You can read all
about
it in the mass market book that came out just before the
execution.
The country needed someone to be arrested quickly, sit in jail
for a few years, not implicate anyone else and then die at
the
hands of an executioner in order that the nation might "heal"
-
and he proved to be the right man for the job.
The government apparently wanted him gone fast, due process
be
damned - and he seemed to have no problem with that.
A Constitution-shredding anti-terrorist bill languished in
Congress, unpassable, and needed a massive demonstration of
extreme violence against the federal government and innocent
people - and Sgt. McVeigh delivered a Ryder truck to the
front
of the Murrah Building right on time.
A remarkable confluence of purposes for two forces supposedly
at odds with each other.
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* Dead and gone?
Just in case you're curious, Timothy McVeigh's body won't be
autopsied, reportedly at his request, even though conducting
an autopsy of executed prisoners is standard procedure in US
prisons. Federal Judge Richard Matsch, who made the ruling,
must have a heart after all.
In addition to the no autopsy ruling, a signed agreement
between McVeigh and the government states that pictures,
X-rays and other medical information gathered by the
coroner's
office after McVeigh's death will remain confidential.
Source:
http://www.crimelynx.com/mcvautop.html
The body will be cremated. By now, it may already have been -
again at McVeigh's request and with Judge Richard Matsch's
approval.
The execution itself?
Here's an excerpt of the first eye witness account of the
execution broadcast by MSNBC just minutes after it was over:
"The shallow breathing continued... or what appeared to be
shallow breathing... even after they pronounced him dead." -
Susan Carlson. Reporter. WLS Chicago
See her say it yourself in streaming video before it's taken
down:
http://www.apfn.org/movies/mcveigh-lives.WMV
The execution was not videotaped, again by court order, so
all
we know of what happened at the end are from the eye witness
accounts.
No body. No video. No photographs. Not even an X-ray - and a
sealed coroner's report.
Did "Timothy McVeigh" die on Monday?
It depends on which one you mean...
The one on the left, the McVeigh we know from the media? Or the
one on the right, a man identified as an ATF agent
photographed
during the Waco Branch Davidian trial (published months before
the OKC bombing.)
(Pics here:
http://www.busprod.com/hellion/okc/IMAGES/atf-tim.jpg)
Call it a Reichstag Fire.
No one believed the audacity of it in 1933 either.
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* History Lesson
"On Feb. 27, 1933, a fire destroyed part of the Reichstag
building. Hitler immediately accused the Communists of having
set the fire. President von Hindenburg proclaimed a state of
emergency and issued decrees suspending freedom of speech and
assembly."
The following day a law was passed ...
"People were not sent to Dachau as a punishment for a crime
after being convicted by a court of law, but rather as a
preventive measure because they were suspected of being a
danger
to the state. Such a person was called a Schutzhäftling and
the
order for preventive custody was a Schutzhaftbefehl. Prisoners
who were arrested and taken to Dachau were told:
"Based on Article One of the Decree of the Reich President
for
the Protection of People and State of 28 February 1933, you
are
taken into protective custody (Schutzhaft) in the interest of
public security and order. Reason: suspicion of activities
inimical to the State."
And remember, if you speak against the state, you're a dangerous
nut, just like that Timothy McVeigh...And he sure got what he
deserved,
didn't
he?
