Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories

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There are numerous alleged inconsistencies in the official account on the Oklahoma City bombing that a Ryder truck loaded with a bomb driven to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building by Timothy McVeigh was solely responsible for the destruction of the building and the deaths of 168 people.

In a column on the News With Views website, nuclear submarine veteran Patrick Briley suggests that U.S. government agencies themselves orchestrated the bombing by means of agents provocateurs. [link]

Some assertions of conspiracy theorists regarding the bombing are that:^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

An explosion originating from a truck would have a caused a different kind of damage to the building.
The shape of the destroyed building indicates an explosion from inside.
Some people near the building noticed two explosions.
If the explosion originated from the truck there should have been a crater.
The actual size of the blast crater under the Ryder truck was extremely small; the media exaggerated the width and the depth.
The debris of the building was removed and destroyed shortly after the incident, preventing the gathering of potential conspiracy evidence.
Some people saw an Arab male with Timothy McVeigh just prior to the explosion.
Surveillance video tapes of the explosion, possibly showing this Arab male, were classified.
An Arab male was arrested at the airport carrying bomb-making material.
The president of the United States gave this Arab male free passage out of the country.
Some government workers were paged not to go to work that day.
The Sheriff's bomb squad assembled near the building a few hours prior to the explosion.
Police and firefighters testified that they saw federal agents removing unexploded devices.
No witnesses reported hearing just one explosion, a fact backed up by two seismological reports: the University of Oklahoma's and the U.S. Geological Survey's.
Gen. Benton K. Partin, the former head of Air Force weapons development program and a man with multiple engineering degrees and over 30 years experience, was barred access to the site after he pointed out that the asymmetrical damage was inconsistent with a single external explosion. Partin concluded that demolition charges attached to the damaged support columns had to have been used.
The passenger in the Ryder truck, identified as "John Doe #2," an olive-skinned man with black, curly hair is named Al-Hussaini Hussani, an Iraqi national.
Oklahoma City paramedic Tiffany Bible, among the first EMT's to arrive, swore under affidavit that she had seen Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents in full gear. The gear takes about 30 minutes to put on. Bible asked if they were injured, and was told by the agents "no," they were called and told not to come in that morning — before the explosions occurred.
A second and third bomb, more destructive than the first, were found and defused by authorities and reported by local media. The information was mysteriously censored by national press.
According to conclusions of Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, the building appears to have been destroyed by the detonation of explosives carefully placed at four critical junctures on supporting columns within the building. [link] Blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavily reinforced concrete beams and columns, and some suspect that there were contact explosives within the building. In the words of the Brigadier, "the total incompatibility with a single truck bomb lies in the fact that either some columns collapsed that should not have collapsed or some of the columns are still standing that should of collapsed and did not." [link]
It is a matter of public record that CDI did the demolition and cleanup and that the rubble was taken to an isolated private landfill in the desert, buried, and surrounded by fencing and Wackenhut security guards.

Videotapes

As part of a lawsuit filed by an Oklahoma journalist, the Justice Department revealed the existence of 23 videotapes in July 2001. The tapes contained footage of the area around the Murrah Federal Building between April 15, 1995, and 9:02 a.m. April 19, when the bomb went off. The video tapes are still classified.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

The Final Jihad

Martin Keating, brother of Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, wrote a manuscript in 1991. This manuscript lays out a story of terrorists based in Oklahoma City who decide to bomb a federal building. One of the key terrorists in this fictional story goes by the name of "Tom McVey" and the terrorists are ultimately stopped by an Oklahoma highway patrolman for a broken tail light. On the day of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Timothy McVeigh was pulled over by an Oklahoma state trooper because of a missing license plate. Martin Keating struggled to get the manuscript published prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing, but on June 1, 1996 the 597-page manuscript was published under the title "The Final Jihad." His seemingly prophetic novel also predicted the downing of a TWA 747 (which occurred on July 17, 1996) and an attack on the World Trade Center.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

External links

[Did H.W. Bush, Clinton officials orchestrate OKC bombing?] - News With Views column by Patrick Briley
[Oklahoma City Murrah Building Bombing Evidence] - Collection of audio from witnesses of the Oklahoma City bombing. Also contains a video, which is an investigative report of the event.
[The Importance of Jane Graham] - An article by Michael A. O'Camb highlighting Oklahoma City bombing witness Jane Graham

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