Congress rebukes FBI in Oklahoma City Bombing probe

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The FBI failed to fully investigate information suggesting other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, allowing questions to linger more than a decade after the deadly attack, a congressional inquiry concludes.

The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year-review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but that far too many unanswered questions remain.

The subcommittee's report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses for the first time that Nichols confirmed to House investigators he participated in the robbery of an Arkansas gun dealer that provided the proceeds for the attack.

There have long been questions about that robbery because the FBI concluded McVeigh was in another state at the time it occurred.

Several leads the subcommittee believes were not fully investigated include:

* Information that McVeigh called a German citizen living at a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma two weeks before the bombing and that two witnesses saw the men together before the bombing.

* Findings in AP articles in 2003 and 2004 that indicated the FBI had gathered some evidence suggesting a group of neo-Nazi bank robbers may have been tied to McVeigh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061224/ap_on_go_co/oklahoma_city_congress

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. The FBI

kept hidden for years information on John Lennon that was public knowledge. That they didn't follow up on McVeigh doesn't surprise me in the least. The organization appears to be incompetant.

[angry_chuck]

2. they know what they are doing, they just

don't want anyone else to know.

[EST]

3. Interesting that second worst terrorist attack on American soil

was carried out by a radical republican extremist. Well, actually more than one, and now the suspicion is that they were closely aligned to a larger terrorist group with active and sleeper cells all over the US.

More than that, quite a number of rank and file republicans are reputed to be in sympathy with them and serve as a support conduit to a larger group.

That shadowy group is well known by a portion of the populace, although current details about them are rather sketchy.
The common rumors have it that they are heirs to an older group, now widely condemned - publicly, at least - which was responsible for a hundred year reign of terror perpetrated on their ancient enemies: Americans who possessed a more colorful integument than the majority of US citizens.

There is some intelligence, most of it still classified, that there is a fourth group and maybe even a fifth.
The fourth group, some say, is composed of radical clerics and their militant followers who espouse assassinations, child rape and other terrorist acts, both here and abroad, particularly in South America.

The last group in this network is said to be an outgrowth of the Mafioso of a half century ago. One highly placed official, who asked not to be quoted on the record because of ongoing investigations, noted that they have gone underground, holding silent positions of influence in the government and many large, multinational corporations.

Because of their alleged ties to powerful political figures, there is a general malaise and a despair of ever routing them, even when their identities, connections and criminal activities are discovered.
Until this terrorist scourge and their financial conduits are uncovered and destroyed, the senseless murder and torture of innocent citizens will continue to escalate.