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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.)
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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.