Oklahoma City bombing notes.
Jayna Davis has reported that Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef met in Mindanao in the Phillipines in the early 1990s. (*) Yousef is in prison for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Former US government counterterrorism operator Richard Clarke has noted that prior to Terry Nichols’s visit to the Phillipines, his bombs didn’t work. After his visit, they worked. (†)
Terry Nichols has accused a gun dealer, Roger Moore, of aiding the OKC bombing plot by providing explosive devices. (‡) This is a suspect allegation. Roger Moore testified against Terry Nichols in a prosecution of Nichols for theft. Roger Moore has denied Nichols’s allegation. No evidence other than the statement of Nichols’s exists. What is interesting is that Terry Nichols feels the need to make a new accusation. Why?
The day before the 2005 birthday of Terry Nichols (born April 1, 1955), the FBI searched his old house in Herington, Kansas. In a crawl space they dug down and found explosive materials. (§)
Jack Cashill reports that an FBI prison informant, Gregory Scarpa, tipped off the FBI about the hidden cache of explosives. (**) Cashill believes Nichols may have trained with Abu Sayyaf in the Phillipines. Abu Sayyaf is a branch of Al Qaeda. Scarpa’s tip passed through Stephen P. Dresch, a forensic economist. (††)
Counterterrorism expert Yossef Bodansky has confirmed that Ayman Al-Zawahiri, currently Osama Bin Laden’s second-in-command of Al Qaeda, was in Oklahoma City in the spring of 1995. (‡‡)
Filipino law enforcement has a statement from Edward Angeles, a founder of Abu Sayyaf, that Nichols and Yousef did meet. (§§)
Finally, the mugshot of Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah Al-Muhajir (***), looks strikingly like the person depicted in the 1995 police sketch of someone seen near the scene of the Oklahoma City Bombing. (†††) Al-Muhajir was arrested amid allegations by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft that he was tied to a dirty bomb plot.
Jayna Davis has undertaken a long investigation into the possibility of foreign terrorist ties to the OKC bombing. (‡‡‡)