Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Oklahoma City

Bizblogger has a long post on Jayna Davis's investigation into the plot that led to the bombing 10 years ago. He hits all the key points.

When the book came out last year, i commented here:
Davis makes a strong case that others were involved with McVeigh besides Nichols and Michael Fortier, that there is a foreign connection, and that the government was unwilling to pursue leads that pointed to Iraqi, Iranian, or al Qaeda involvement.

It must be admitted, however, that she does not present a clear picture of the larger conspiracy. What she has compiled is a massive dossier of loose threads, suspicious characters, and questions the government left unanswered
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The JunkYard Blog also has some thoughts. I share his uneasiness about the thoroughness of the FBI investigation:
It's curious to me that ten years on after the attack, the FBI on the one hand still denies any Middle Eastern link to the bombing, yet still finds explosives in Terry Nichols' house as recently as a week or so ago, explosives that might shade the Bureau's understanding of the case. Nichols avoided the death penalty by asserting that he was McVeich's second. The explosives found in his old house might indicate his role was as more of a leader than a follower. They certainly indicate that the FBI didn't get the full facts gathered in order to present its case.


Michelle Malkin has a round-up of good links.

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