According to Oklahoma bombing conspirator, ranking officials were involved in the attack
By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:02/21/2007 01:03:43 AM MST
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.
Nichols does not say what motive the government would have to be involved in the bombing.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act, alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
Trentadue's death a few months after the April 19, 1995, bombing was ruled a suicide after several investigations. The government has adamantly denied any wrongdoing in the death.
In his affidavit, Nichols says he wants to bring closure to the survivors and families of the attack on the Alfred B. Murrah Federal Building, which took 168 lives. He alleges he wrote then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004, offering to help identify all parties who played a role in the bombing but never got a reply.
Nichols is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo. McVeigh, who carried out the bombing, was executed in 2001.
McVeigh and Nichols were the only defendants indicted in the bombing. However, Nichols alleges others were involved.
McVeigh told him he was recruited for undercover missions while serving in the military, according to Nichols. He says he learned sometime in 1995 that there had been a change in bombing target and that McVeigh was upset by that.
"There, in what I believe was an accidental slip of the tongue, McVeigh revealed the identity of a high-ranking FBI official who was apparently directing McVeigh in the bomb plot," Nichols says in the affidavit.
Nichols also says that McVeigh threatened him and his family to force him to rob Roger Moore, an Arkansas gun dealer, of weapons and explosives. He later learned the robbery was staged so Moore, who was in on the phony heist, could deny any knowledge of the bombing plot if the stolen items were traced back to him, Nichols claims.
He adds that Moore allegedly told his attorney that he would not be prosecuted in connection with the bombing because he was a "protected witness."
Moore could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
In addition, Nichols says McVeigh must have had help building the bomb. The device he and McVeigh built the day before the bombing did not resemble the one that ultimately was used, Nichols says, and "displayed a level of expertise and sophistication" that neither man had.
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"On May 18, 1995, Brigadier General Benton Partin (USAF, Retired), an expert with sterling credentials and a distinguished military career, informed Congress: "From all the evidence I have seen in the published material, I can say with a high level of confidence that the damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from the single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases." "
More conspiracy trash. There was no conspiracy at OKC or any where else involving the federal government. Nutcases set around dreaming up this crap. Someretired AF general,who claimed to be an "explosive expert" signed onto the theory and was made to look like the idiot that he is.
Believe it or not, i saw a very quiet black helicopter with no markings flying around western OK this evening.
Look out here it comes.
"On May 18, 1995, Brigadier General Benton Partin (USAF, Retired), an expert with sterling credentials and a distinguished military career, informed Congress: "From all the evidence I have seen in the published material, I can say with a high level of confidence that the damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from the single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforced column bases." "
More conspiracy trash. There was no conspiracy at OKC or any where else involving the federal government. Nutcases set around dreaming up this crap. Someretired AF general,who claimed to be an "explosive expert" signed onto the theory and was made to look like the idiot that he is.
Believe it or not, i saw a very quiet black helicopter with no markings flying around western OK this evening.
Look out here it comes.
You work for them don't you? Or I guess you didn't watch the video. How did someone manage to place 4 or 5 bombs inside that building and a couple of them over 1200lbs? They just walked in and placed them with no suspicion from anyone. In a FBI building to top it off!!! They must be the reno 911 of the feds then. Please don't insult us with you all are wearing tin foiled hats and are stupid BS. Watch the video and tell me there was no inside help for that. Yes, our agency would never do anything like that to their own people. They are here to protect us and keep us safe and secure as the big brother they are. They are our friends and respect our lives and our well being. They would never do anything that sinister for an agenda. Yes, Thank you for showing me the light and explaining to me how these bombs got in that building and why damage was not done across the street. Thank you for telling us how building 7 fell from just a fire. Thank you for all these answers to our questions that have gone un answered. Truly, You have shown me explanations to many unanswered questions. The same answer everyone been telling everbody. Your a conspiracy nut. Theres the detailed answer to your questions. I guess that's the only answer they can provide.
"Yes, Thank you for showing me the light and explaining to me how these bombs got in that building and why damage was not done across the street."
There was extensive damage across the street. i've been working in Explosive Ordnance Disposal since 1959. Seen lots of big explosions. If you will do a little real research you will find that there were no bombs in the Murrah building.
There are all kinds of sour grapes types here in OK. They are bent out of shape because their hero, Bob Macy, and other wackos screamed and got a trial for Nichols in OK with the hopes of getting him executed: Never mind that Nichols was serving a life sentence in a federal prison.Their hopes were dashed by the jury. Then the conspiracy wackos in OK even threatened the lives of some of the Nichols jurors. The state of OK wasted about 10 million dollars on a trial for Nichols.
The front of the Murrah building was supported by a concrete beam resting on pillars. One of these pillars was destroyed by theblast of the McVeigh truck bomb. This allowed thebeam to roll, dropping the entire front of the building. This is the pillar that the nutcases claim was rigged with explosivesby the dastardly US agents.
Yes, i did see a black helicopter with no markings last evening, right here in western OK.
"Now if you want to talk shady government tactics, I watched the Waco documentary again last night, and got pissed off all over again."
That Waco thing still makes me puke many years after the fact. All they had to do was wait until Koresh came to town and arrest him. i remember Janet Reno trying to explain away the incineration of lots of innocent women and kids. She said:"They were abusing the kids, that is why we went in." Right, you old witch, you burned them to death.
Well,I guess these bomb squads don't know what they was looking at then? They have comfirmed there was more bombs and was removing them. Like I said alsagr, How long have you been working for them? Watch and listen to that video. It was confirmed of more bombs that didn't go off by the bomb squad. You want us to believe these experts don't know what bombs are or look like? How long have you worked for them alsagr?
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First Oklahoma City, then 9-11. I'm sure that the government was involved in the WTC bombing, too? Or the Olympics bombing in Atlanta?
