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INTELWIRE EXCLUSIVE Documents Tighten Net Around Additional OKBOMB ConspiratorsAdvance Warning, More Informants And A Narrowing Timeline Tie Aryan Robbers To Blast A warning about the impending Oklahoma City bombing may have been delivered three days in advance to a white supremacist tied to suspected additional conspirators in the terrorist attack.
Newly released documents reveal a detailed timeline of events that strengthens the case for additional conspirators in the bombing that killed 168 people on April 19, 1995. The new documents also corroborate key testimony from other sources regarding a wider conspiracy. The documents were obtained by Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue through the Freedom of Information Act. Read the full story Related content: The Jesse Trentadue Files New OKBOMB Docs on INTELWIRE: Strassmeir, Gamaat Islamiyah Informants, Middle Eastern Suspects, And More Terry Nichols' affidavit David Paul Hammer affidavit Nichols Says DOJ Told Him To Lie INTELWIRE EXCLUSIVE What Is PATCON?An Exclusive Inside Look At The FBI's Secret War Against The Militia Movement Undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists gathered alarming intelligence about the militia movement during the early 1990s, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE.
But FBI headquarters abruptly terminated the undercover operation -- code-named PATCON -- just three months after the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The timing could hardly have been worse; the networks targeted by the investigation were inflamed to violence by Waco. At least one individual targeted in the investigation -- Andreas Strassmeier -- was later linked to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Another target of the investigation was later linked to Eric Rudolph, perpetrator of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. PATCON was the centerpiece of an extensive investigation of militia and white supremacist groups in Arizona, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas. From 1991 to 1993, at least three undercover agents working under the auspices of the FBI posed as members of a fictional white supremacist group seeking closer ties with established organizations. The targeted groups "advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government and the establishment of an Aryan nation," according to the documents. Full Story | Read The Documents OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING DOCUMENTS ARYAN REPUBLICAN ARMY/MIDWEST BANK ROBBERS (BOMBROB) Documents relating to the Aryan Republican Army bank robbery gang. Richard Guthrie, one member of the gang, is frequently mentioned as a suspected accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. He died in prison, shortly before he was scheduled to testify, from an apparent suicide.Complete list of Guthrie ATF files obtained via FOIA: TEXAS RESERVE MILITIA (OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING-RELATED) The FBI engaged in an extended conflict with the Texas Reserve Militia, which counted among its members one Andreas Strassmeier, who is frequently mentioned as a suspected accomplice in the Oklahoma City Bombing. Members of the TRM had intense interactions with some of the same FBI field office that would later be involved in Waco.INTELWIRE ANALYSIS The Legacy of the Order and the Failure of the Terror Profile The three suspects arrested in Denver for threatening to kill Barack Obama are reportedly linked to Aryan Nations and The Order, and their profile is not dissimilar to that of Timothy McVeigh.
So why isn't the federal government taking the case more seriously? Read more NEW DOCUMENT Nichols To Testify On OKC Bombing A federal judge will allow Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue to interview Terry Nichols and another federal prison inmate about the possibility of additional conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing. The ruling by Judge Dale Kimball orders that Nichols and prisoner David Paul Hammer (who spoke with Timothy McVeigh before his execution) be permitted but not compelled to testify about the possibility of a wider conspiracy and allegations of federal government misconduct related to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Documents obtained by Trentadue as part of his lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act show that federal government learned from informants that right-wing extremists were considering bombing federal buildings, including the Alfred E. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, prior to McVeigh's April 1995 attack. In an affidavit earlier this year, Nichols additionally alleged that high-ranking FBI officials were complicit in the bombing plot. Update: Nichols Says DOJ Told Him To Lie |
ALSO ON INTELWIRE FBI Records Cited By 9/11 CommissionINTELWIRE has obtained more than 1,700 pages of FBI documents cited in the end notes of the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission. They reveal a wealth of new details about the hijacker's movements, possible links between the hijackers and the government of Saudi Arabia, and connections to extremist figures in the United States, including blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.Full Story and Analysis || Full Text of Report OKBOMB.COM EXCLUSIVES OKBOMB.COM DOCUMENTS OFFICIAL QUESTIONS Congressman Finds New Links Between Yousef, NicholsA new Congressional Subcommitee investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing uncovered significant new circumstantial links between Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef but did not deliver any bombshells. The report said the Justice Department was uncooperative in its probe and faulted the FBI for failing to investigate several key figures in the case. However, the report called the state of the investigation "inconclusive" and did not embrace any theory of the case.SPECIAL REPORT Al Qaeda And OKC:
Within hours of the Oklahoma City bombing, many observers of terrorist activity speculated that the attack may have been sponsored by Islamic extremists or other Middle Eastern interests. When Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were arrested, the media pendulum swung to the other extreme, dismissing such early speculation as the result of ethnic and religious bigotry. The U.S. government flatly stated that the attack had been carried out by domestic, right-wing American terrorists. The case, it seemed, was closed. But new information continued to trickle out during the intervening years, and that trickle increased to a flood in the wake of the September 11 attack on America, which brought intense scrutiny of Islamic extremist "sleeper cells" operating on U.S. soil.
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