We have long argued that an Al-Qaeda cell in the Philippines was associated with Terry Nichols and involved with the McVeigh-Nichols bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building (1, 2, 3, 4, 5; also see my photo album on the Murrah Memorial). Atlas Shrugs has resurrected a Fox News interview with a former NBC reporter in Oklahoma City who accumulated the evidence that Iraqi nationals and the Philippines' cell were associated with OBL and were involved in the bombing. The video must be watched. This allegation of terrorist involvement is especially important in light of former president Clinton's effort to discredit Tea Party, GOP, and conservative opposition to Obama and the Democrats' political agenda by associating them with violent language, right-wing domestic militias and terror, such as McVeigh and Nichols--a scandalous and disreputable political smear. The Clinton administration refused outright to entertain the foreign connections with McVeigh and Nichols and prosecuted the men without permitting these connections to be brought into the trial. The Clintons have a record of ignoring the terrorist threat to America that stretches from the first WTC bombing, to the Murrah bombing, to the Cole bombing. They continue to cover up their responsibility for the ignorance that led to 9/11. Nor was the notion that an Iraqi cell might be involved, as Saddam Hussein sought revenge against the US for its repulsion of his invasion of Kuwait; he did, after all, attempt to assassinate former President Bush in 1993. Why would it be unconceivable that Hussein would seek to utilize the pathology of McVeigh and Nichols for his own purposes?
Update. April 20, 2010. Bill Clinton has gone to print, editorializing in the New York Times, with his continuing cover-up of the complicity of his administration in the domestic and international events and terrorism that led to the Oklahoma bombing. JoshuaPundit has an excellent discussion of these issues.
Update. April 23, 2009. For more discussion of Middle East and terrorist connections, see Jayna Davis, "The Tea Party, Timothy McVeigh, and Tainted History", American Thinker. Davis, a former CNN interviewer, is the author of the book, The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahona City Bombing (which I have not read, but intend to).
Revised. April 19, 2010.
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