Elohim City Confidential

Jesse Walker | February 12, 2003

It's been a while since I've paid much attention to those investigators who claim -- some with credibility, others with a loopy gleam in their eyes -- that a conspiracy larger than Timothy McVeigh was behind the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. I'm thus not sure whether this new report adds anything significant to the story -- but it's certainly interesting.

(Don't be misled by the article's headline, by the way. There's not much here that suggests the feds knew this specific plot was coming. There's a bit more, though, that suggests there was more behind the attack than a pissed-off vet with a couple of pals from Michigan.)

Comments

The Mountain Goat|2.12.03 @ 9:28AM|#

This is my favorite one. http://www.newtalkradio.com/dirty.htm

Its a photo comparison of Oklahoma City's most wanted, then most ignored John Doe number 2 with Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber, the U.S. citizen of Phillipine descent, arrested but not charged, and spirited off to Cuba where supposedly he lost his rights.

Didn't Nichols have a Philipine ex-wife named Padilla?

Jaws|2.12.03 @ 10:12AM|#

Someone did some digging after those two pictures began to circulate, and it became clear that Pedilla could not have been John Doe #2. I don't remember the details, but I think it came down to him being someplace else at the time of the bombing.

Johnny Rockets|2.13.03 @ 2:52AM|#

"Dirty bomber" Jose Padilla is Puerto Rican, not Filipino-American.

|2.13.03 @ 6:37AM|#

And I think Nichols had an ex-wife with that last name, but she was not Filipino. His current wife is the one that's Filipino.

|2.13.03 @ 7:33AM|#

it was the vast right-wing conspiracy that did it

|2.13.03 @ 8:51AM|#

The more I hear about inter-agency squabbling and lack of communication/disclosure, the more I am certain that "government intelligence" is an oxymoron.