OMG! Did you know there was a Middle East connection to the OKC Bombing?

[originalpckelly]

Will be on FOX News in a few minutes. I'm curious to see how far they'll go with this.

Tim McVeigh = Republican, not Muslim

[Taverner]

1. They've been pushing this BS for years

Saying McVeigh had an Iraqi connection....

Thing is that was all speculation

[TahitiNut]

12. I must be true.

After all, a good right-winger like Tim wouldn't do anyting like that unless corrupted and seduced by the Axis of (non-white) Evil. It can't be Tim's fault.

[Ian David]

20. My Republicker acquaintance thinks the Japanese suicide cult was involved, too

He's the same guy who said that Clinton had United Nations troops hidden in our National Parks (and lately denies ever saying it).

Republickers are nutz.

[bertha katzenengel]

2. Here's what the connection is:

McVeigh: terrorist.
Some Middle Eastern men: terrorists.

Fox News: terrorists.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Seems to me that this was tried a few years ago as well

I could have sworn that back in the '90's, there were some conspiracy theorists, er, researchers, er, experts that were saying something about a middle east/muslim connection to the Murrah Building bombings. No matter what, there will always be those who believe it.

[Taverner]

11. Its kind of like Holocaust Deniers

Despite all the evidence in the world, they still find it hard to believe that an aryan boy would do so much damage...

[wakeme2008]

4. It may be part true...

there was a piece that the FBI did not investigate all the connections to McVeigh and one of the connections is from the Philippines (as I remember) where he got the formula for the bomb.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I'd say this is to counteract the articles

critical of the FBI that have come out recently. It seems from them that McVeigh had contacts with Germans and possibly neo-Nazis.

[closeupready]

6. I don't know what to believe on that one -

It is alleged that in firsthand accounts that McVeigh was seen in the van with someone else, that unidentifiable body parts were found at the scene, the issue of how would someone like him have the know-how/expertise to successfully carry out something like that, the rental car attendants saw him at the rental place with another man, etc. those sorts of riddles.

Anyway, I'm not sure how this crime all happened, and because McVeigh was executed, we will probably never know for sure.

[PRETZEL]

7. I believe the person most responsible for this theory

is a lady named Jayna Davis. She was a reporter in OKC at that time.

[Imagevision]

8. This is thr reason the DOD and the FBI never completed their investigations....

[nomo]

9. Nooooooo!

Not our Timothy!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. They are pulling that canard again?

Free clue Fox, your answer is in the Turner Diaries, and trust me, Al Qaida or Iraq had nothing to do with them.

Oh and McVeigh's connection, he served wiht the First Infantry Division in '91 on them sands.

[madrchsod]

13. look over there----it`s the brown people!

no this was a white guy/guys from the state of michigan and with a little help from thier friends, blew the shit out the building and killed a lot people with explosives that were made here in the usa. no it was`t the furners'that killed americans it was the aryan nation

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

14. Tim McVeigh

got exactly what he deserved. I thought what should have been his sentence would be to build a cell isolated from the main building, told that one day in the future his "cell" was going to be blown up. As for the Middle Eastern connection, like others have said here, :thumbsdown:

[originalpckelly]

15. Blame: Clinton, FISA, FBI IMPLY: foreign suspects

PRAISE: Patriot Act and recent funding of FBI.

[Poiuyt]

16. So what did they say?

I've recently heard that there was a connection between McVeigh and white supremest groups that the FBI never fully investigated.

[originalpckelly]

18. Post #15 is a quick summary...

they're talking about a government report which will come out soon on this subject. If I find it, I'll post it in GD then.

[Poiuyt]

22. Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic!

[originalpckelly]

24. Oh no, that's the real summary.

No fucking joke.

[Poiuyt]

25. I guess I shouldn't assume that Fox would even make an attempt at being

a real news network

[stanwyck]

17. What really needs to be investigated about the OKC

bombing is the funding behind McVeigh and his supporters. McVeigh rambled around the country without a job after failing to get into special forces, yet had sufficient money and could buy the provisions he needed for the bombing.
Who is funding these people? The defrocked minister who killed a doctor and his bodyguard in Florida didn't have a job for years. But was able to show up on a daily basis to protest at a clinic. Who was paying his rent?
And the Swiftboat Liars for Hire are professionals hitmen. This is how they earn their living...travelling around the country (not on their own dime) to show up and spout lies against whoever is targeted by their masters. If it's John McCain running against Dubya for the party nomination, say McCain betrayed his soldiers as a POW. Imply he has a mixed race child out of wedlock. Neither are true, but, hey, this is how the paycheck is earned.
So, who was floating McVeigh? Where was his money coming from and what groups were supporting him?
The same folks who pushed Paula Jones into the limelight? Or Gennifer Flowers? Or Linda Tripp?
The same folks who paid for Paula's plastic surgery...and Linda's?
The same folks who made Jeff Gannon into an instant journalist...or, as Sean Hannity referred to him, "distinguished journalist", when his real job was male prostitute?
We still don't know who Gannon was visiting at the White House at 3 am.

[Ian David]

19. The "Patriot Movement" has been trying to deflect the blame "Eastward" from day one.

The right-wing has been trying to blame it on everyone from mid-east Muslims to the Japanese suicide cult-- anything except the truth, that Conservative Christian Republicans did it.

[seaglass]

21. Yeah, Laurie Mylorie from AEI has been pushing this forever. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

23. Laurie Mylroie - "Armchair Provocateur". Good read.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.bergen.html

Peter Bergen nails her as a nutcase obsessed with Saddam. Well, actually she was for Saddam before she was against him....

Historians will be debating that question for years, but an important part of the reason has to do with someone you may well have never heard of: Laurie Mylroie. Mylroie has an impressive array of credentials that certify her as an expert on the Middle East, national security, and, above all, Iraq. She has held faculty positions at Harvard and the U.S. Naval War College and worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, as well as serving as an advisor on Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. During the 1980s, Mylroie was an apologist for Saddam's regime, but reversed her position upon his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and, with the zeal of the academic spurned, became rabidly anti-Saddam. In the run up to the first Gulf War, Mylroie with New York Times reporter Judith Miller wrote Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, a well-reviewed bestseller translated into more than a dozen languages.

Until this point, there was nothing controversial about Mylroie's career. This would change with the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the first act of international terrorism within the United States, which would launch Mylroie on a quixotic quest to prove that Saddam's regime was the most important source of terrorism directed against this country. She laid out her case in Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, a book published by AEI in 2000 which makes it clear that Mylroie and the neocon hawks worked hand in glove to push her theory that Iraq was behind the '93 Trade Center bombing. Its acknowledgements fulsomely thanked John Bolton and the staff of AEI for their assistance, while Richard Perle glowingly blurbed the book as "splendid and wholly convincing." Lewis "Scooter" Libby, now Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, is thanked for his "generous and timely assistance." And it appears that Paul Wolfowitz himself was instrumental in the genesis of Study of Revenge: His then-wife is credited with having "fundamentally shaped the book," while of Wolfowitz, she says: "At critical times, he provided crucial support for a project that is inherently difficult."