Jayna Davis was an Oklahoma City reporter at the time of the 1995 bombing. She is one of the few journalists who continued to pursue John Doe #2 even after the conviction of McVeigh and Nichols. In The Third Terrorist she lays out the course of her investigation and the results so far.
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 that, 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.
Still, this is an important book and one well worth reading. OKC was the most deadly terror attack on our soil before 9-11. Nearly a decade later we still know too little about the plot and plotters who pulled it off.
The Third Terrorist
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