Saturday, April 21, 2007

The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing


Investigative Staff Report
The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
19 April 2007: Twelve years ago today - at 9:02 a.m. CST on April 19, 1995, a blast caused by a truck bomb containing 5000 pounds of a fertilizer-fuel oil mixture took 171 lives – 168 were men, women and children, and three were unborn children and ripped through the heartland of America. That bombing is book-ended by the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the attacks of September 11, 2001, both which have been attributed to the diabolical work of Islamic terrorists. Clearly, the false peace and security felt by the majority of Americans during the decade of the 1990’s and into the 21st century was nothing more than illusion, but few could – or wanted to see through this false veil of tranquility.
Twelve years after the horrific bombing that shattered the calm of America’s heartland, it appears that the majority of Americans still cling to the illusion that the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building was a vengeful act caused by a disgruntled former US soldier and his American accomplice. Given the unprecedented quality of investigative findings that point directly to Middle Eastern complicity in the Murrah Building bombing, it would seem to defy logic that any reasonable person could continue to discount the omnipresent Middle Eastern perpetrators interwoven within planning and execution of the bombing in Oklahoma City. Arguably, having done so in the moths and years following the 1995 bombing paved, in part, the path to 9/11. Without a doubt, continuing to do so allows the Middle Eastern terrorists to continue to operate within the borders of the United States.
While America rightfully mourns for the students brutally executed at Virginia Tech this week, we must not forget the 171 souls who perished 12 years ago today – who continue to be victimized by the injustices of an incomplete investigation by those in charge of the safety and security of our country.

posted by jillosophy at 4/21/2007 03:59:00 PM

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http://www.mccurtain.com/headline.shtml

Strassmeir still mystery man in Oklahoma City bombing
4/19/2007
By Roger G. Charles and J.D. Cash
A retired, senior officer of the nation’s intelligence community has confirmed
to this newspaper that the German military-intelligence operative, Andreas
Strassmeir, was in fact “working for the German government and the FBI” while
residing at the neo-Nazi compound known as Elohim City. Strassmeir resided at
this compound for four years and closely associated with members of the neo-Nazi
group that planned and conducted the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in
downtown Oklahoma City.

This intelligence officer identified a specific document, a post-bombing report,
that listed Strassmeir’s role as an agent reporting on neo-Nazi activities as
part of a campaign being waged by both German and American governments against
such activities. (This newspaper is involved in legal efforts to obtain a copy
of this report.)

Twelve years after the April 19 bombing in America’s heartland, this and other
recently obtained and compelling evidence confirms what had long been suspected
– the bombing was the result of a bungled “sting” operation that sought to
disrupt international ties between German and American neo-Nazis. It was a sting
operation that went bad, horribly bad.

Strassmeir’s role as a possible German military-intelligence operative in the
center of neo-Nazi group responsible for this deadly attack had long puzzled
Danny Coulson, one of the three most-senior FBI supervisors in charge of the
immediate post-bombing investigation.

In a documentary television program aired by the British Broadcasting
Corporation on March 4 of this year, Coulson described how unusual it was, based
on his own 31 years in the FBI, that Strassmeir was never interviewed by the FBI
before he was allowed to return to Germany in January 1996.

“To my knowledge, he was never interviewed by any FBI agents. He was interviewed
[in a trans-Atlantic telephone call] by two Assistant United States Attorneys
with an FBI [agent] present on the phone but taking notes. But there was never a
face-to- face, sit-down, come-to-Jesus meeting with the FBI. That never
occurred.”

In the same BBC program, Strassmeir repeated his oft-repeated denial of any
knowledge of or role in the bombing plot.

Coulson was not impressed with Strassmeir’s responses.

“Yeah, well a person can claim a lot of things. But, you are known by the
company you keep... if you are hanging out with some Aryans [neo-Nazis] and the
Aryans are involved in criminal activity, it’s kind of hard to say you know
nothing about it. It’s like hanging out with the choir [and you] didn’t know
they sang. It’s exactly the same type of thing. He knew what they were up to. He
knew what he was doing there. And we should have interviewed him.”

In November 2003, this newspaper obtained a Jan. 4, 1996, teletype from
then-Director of the FBI Louis Freeh that contained information about a
telephone call from Tim McVeigh to Strassmeir at Elohim City. While federal
prosecutors had admitted that McVeigh called Elohim City on April 5, 1995,
asking to speak with Strassmeir, the evidence of this second phone call on April
17 was withheld from McVeigh’s federal trial and from both federal and state
trials of Terry Nichols, McVeigh’s co-defendant.

This document contains these two other key facts.

One, this source reported to the FBI that McVeigh had a “lengthy relationship”
with Strassmeir. Not only was this document withheld from the defense teams, but
the federal prosecutors claimed repeatedly that the largest FBI investigation in
the nation’s history up to this time had discovered that McVeigh’s and
Strassmeir’s direct contacts consisted only of a short encounter at a Tulsa gun
show two years before the bombing. (McVeigh’s phone call of April 4 had been for
Strassmeir, who had not been present to take the call.)

And, two, this source reported that Strassmeir was (as of Jan. 4, 1996) residing
in North Carolina and had plans to “leave the U.S. via Mexico, in the near
future.” The source specified where Strassmeir was staying, and with whom.

No action was taken by the FBI to intercept Strassmeir, who walked across the
Texas border into Mexico on or about Jan. 10 in route to his home in Germany.

The above revelations were discovered in November 2003 when this newspaper found
a copy of the explosive teletype among more than 300,000 pages of FBI records
that were supposedly not directly related to the Oklahoma City bombing, known
inside the FBI as “OKBOMB.” Yet, the Oklahoma City bombing case number is
clearly shown as being the case under which the teletype was drafted,
transmitted and filed.

From this same 300,000 pages is a never-before-disclosed FBI teletype dated
December 6, 1995, from the FBI office in St. Louis to the Director and 11 other
FBI offices. It contains conclusive proof that the FBI actively investigated
connections between the neo-Nazi gang of bank robbers and the Oklahoma City bomb
team. (Three of the bank robbers lived with Strassmeir at Elohim City at various
times.)

This teletype announced a meeting to be hosted by the St. Louis FBI office on
Jan. 9 and 10, 1996, for the purpose of exchanging information about the
neo-Nazi bank robbers (know in FBI shorthand as the “BOMBROB” major case).

It further stated that, “... this investigation has been featured on the Oct.
28, 1995 segment of America’s Most Wanted (AMW), which resulted in a possible
connection between BOMBROB and OKBOMB.”

The teletype lists nine items to be covered in the Jan. 9-10 meeting. Two of the
agenda items are particularly relevant.

“6)Presentation from OKBOMB investigator on status of possible connection with
BOMBROB.

“7) Explanation of specifics of possible military connection.”

Following the late-December 1995 interviews of a neo-Nazi leader (who was
serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia) and his wife,
the FBI used this sergeant to lure the leaders of the BOMBROB gang to meetings
in the Cincinnati, Ohio area where they were arrested. (Richard Lee Guthrie on
January 15, and Peter Langan on January 18, 1996.)

An FBI teletype dated Jan. 3, 1996 announced that, “In view of recent
developments in the Cincinnati Division [of the FBI]...,” the planned meeting of
members of the BOMBROB and OBKBOMB investigation teams in St. Louis on January 9
and 10 was “postponed indefinitely.”

The Army sergeant and his wife received an undisclosed award for their roles in
supporting the FBI’s arrests of the BOMBROB leaders in Ohio.

And, whether it was coincidence or not, Strassmeir – “Andy the German” to his
neo-Nazi associates – left the United States on January 10.

Recent documents and other information obtained by this newspaper have also
confirmed long-held suspicions about Strassmeir’s immigration records, a few of
which were released for the federal trials of McVeigh and Nichols.

Specifically, in Strassmeir’s visits to the United States, dating back to 1988,
his immigration records listed him with a coded designation that meant he
traveled in a special diplomatic status which carried with it diplomatic
immunity.

When retired senior FBI official Coulson was asked in the BBC documentary about
his continuing suspicions regarding Strassmeir, Coulson replied:

“There is (sic) lots of questions who he is. Who he works for? And does he work
for... for someone in the United States? Does he work for the federal
government, or does he work for a government overseas? Did he work for the
Israelis? The Israelis certainly have an interest in looking at neo-Nazis
because of their history. The Germans have a significant problem with neo-Nazis
in their country and they were not happy with our investigation here. And, was
he working for them? I don’t know the answer to it. What I do know is he wasn’t
just bumming around.”

Twelve years after the worst incident of domestic terrorism in the nation’s
history, hard evidence continues to surface that directly contradicts the
federal government’s claim that all those who perpetrated that horrible crime
have been caught, convicted and sentenced.

Strassmeir, for one, is safe from having to answer official questions about his
role in OKBOMB. The German government does not extradite German citizens to
countries where they could potentially face the death penalty for their criminal
conduct.

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