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On Wed, 04 May 2005 19:32:15 +0000, NOYB wrote:


I'm not posting links to "conspiracy theory websites". I'm quoting a
former Clinton adviser on the Middle East, and a former CIA director.

As to which incident? Oklahoma City or Flight 800? I'll admit that with
Oklahoma City there are some unanswered questions, but no where have I
read anything that credibly suggested Flight 800 was a terrorist act.

Nowhere have I read a US government official publically go on record to
suggest that a Navy missile downed TWA 800, nor that a plane never hit
the
Pentagon.



Hidden explosives tie FBI to OKC destruction?

Posted: April 6, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

On Thursday afternoon, March 31, within hours of the death of Terry Schiavo,
the FBI approached an entirely surprised Georgia Rucker in the forgotten
little town of Herington, Kan., an hour or so southwest of Topeka.

The agents asked Rucker for the keys to a cracker box of a house she was
trying to sell on South Second Street. They told her they were searching for
possible explosives. Naturally, she obliged. Unconcerned by what they might
find, Rucker went and had her hair done while she waited for them to finish.
"I didn't think it was possible for there to be anything there," she told a
reporter from the Daily Union in nearby Junction City.

Rucker was wrong. The FBI soon called in the Topeka bomb squad, evacuated
the immediate neighborhood, and cordoned off a three-block area. They worked
through the night and into the next day. As Rucker learned, this is the
house in which Terry Nichols lived at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Although the FBI on the scene would not confirm that its agents found
anything, ABC News and others were told by Oklahoma City's FBI office that
explosive devices had indeed been found. The news spin, at least what little
surfaced in a period of predictable news frenzy, was that the FBI was
embarrassed for not having found this old material 10 years prior.

As has happened all too often in the past, however, seeming FBI incompetence
provides a cover for a much more troubling story. The story, as high-level
forensic economist Stephen Dresch relates it, revolves around an
extraordinary figure, Gregory Scarpa Jr., a convicted mobster now serving
hard time at the federal super max in Florence, Colo.

Readers may remember Scarpa from multiple Emmy-winner Peter Lance's book,
"Cover-Up." As Lance relates, Scarpa cooperated with the Justice Department
in the summer of 1996 by scheming to rout the calls of jailmate Ramzi Yousef
through to the FBI. Unfortunately for the United States, Yousef often used
two obscure languages that the FBI could not translate quickly enough, if at
all.

[A letter I received two weeks ago from a purported NSA insider identified
the key language as Baluchi, Yousef's native tongue. Again, reportedly,
Yousef's final transmission on the subject translated as follows, "What had
to be done has been done, TWA 800 (last two words unintelligible)."]

What is undeniable is that the day after TWA Flight 800 blew up off the
coast of Long Island, Yousef asked for a mistrial, citing the now
prejudicial environment post-explosion. He was denied. By allowing him to
communicate overseas, however, the Justice Department may well have
unwittingly assisted Yousef in his effort to destroy that ill-fated plane.

No one doubts that his allies were capable of it. Indeed, Yousef had bombed
a plane in the Philippines, killing a passenger and almost blowing the plane
out of the air. He also served as the mastermind of the first World Trade
Center bombing and was convicted for the same. His uncle, Khalid Shiekh
Muhammad, with whom he communicated from his New York jail, was the
mastermind of 9-11.

Possibly to silence him, the Justice Department cut Scarpa no slack for his
help with Yousef and deep-sixed him in Colorado for 40 years, a severe
sentence for a non-lethal RICO charge. On March 1, 2005, Scarpa called
Dresch, who was consulting with an attorney on a related case. Scarpa
informed Dresch that an unnamed inmate had made him aware of a cache of
explosives to be used in an act of domestic terrorism, possibly on the 10th
anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19.

Dresch surmised, correctly as it turned out, that the inmate was Terry
Nichols, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, and he immediately contacted
the FBI by both phone and fax, as well as Massachusetts Congressman William
Delahunt with whom Dresch had been working on an FBI-related matter. The FBI
visited Scarpa at the prison on March 3, two days later. Having been burned
once, this time Scarpa insisted on a written cooperation agreement before he
talked.

The following day, an FBI polygraph expert flew in from D.C. and
administered what Dresch's own expert calls an "absurdly flawed
examination." The FBI expert claimed that Scarpa was lying. Scarpa
immediately called Dresch's associate and insisted that she and Dresch visit
him.

It should be noted that the FBI's current chief counsel, Valerie Caproni,
was the Clinton Justice official who oversaw Scarpa's work with Yousef. To
thicken the plot, it was also Caproni who illegally ordered the FBI to take
the TWA Flight 800 investigation away from the National Transportation
Safety Board and who arranged the prosecution of James and Elizabeth Sanders
for James' reporting on the TWA Flight 800 investigation. The absurdly
compromised Caproni has any number of reasons for keeping Scarpa out of the
light.

On March 10, Dresch and his associate met with Scarpa for seven hours. He
gave them a letter from Nichols that provided a highly detailed description
of the cached bomb making material - nitromethane, blasting caps, kine-pak,
etc. Nichols had told Scarpa that he hid this second cache 10 years ago to
be used as a follow up to the Oklahoma City blast.

Nichols' apparent goal in sharing this information was to bust the man who
allegedly supplied the material, a reported FBI informant named Roger Moore.
Nichols also wanted to expose the FBI's role in supplying Moore the
material, presumably in a sting gone awry. Nichols was certain that Moore's
fingerprints would be on the material.

No longer trusting the FBI, Dresch worked through a contact, who had
high-level Homeland Security connections. Together, they improvised an
arrangement for Scarpa, and on March 11, Dresch laid out the offer. Scarpa
relented and provided Dresch with the address of the house and detailed
descriptions of the location of the cache within it.

Dresch went to Herington the following day and found the house to be vacant
and for sale. His well-connected contact had not followed through, however,
on retrieving the material and giving Scarpa credit where due. Only later
did the contact claim that his people were surveilling the site waiting for
someone to retrieve the material. It would take nearly three more weeks, the
day of Schiavo's death, for the FBI to go in.

On Saturday, I called Jeff Lanza, the FBI public affairs officer on the
scene, whom I have met on at least a few occasions. I left a message, asking
him to confirm whether the Scarpa information led to the activity at
Nichols' former home. His office paged him. Two days later he has yet to get
back to me.

Lanza, however, made a point of telling the Junction City paper, as
paraphrased, "that the FBI did not receive a tip leading them to search ...
but rather had received the information during an investigation." But either
Lanza or Gary Johnson of the FBI's Oklahoma City office is not on message.
"Johnson," writes ABC News, "said the discovery was prompted by a recent
tip."

In any case, when I visited the house on Saturday morning, there were
neither media, nor police, anywhere to be seen. The Scarpa story is one that
many people don't want told - Valerie Caproni, chief among them. And from
the looks of things, they may be succeeding.

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That story came out April 6th. Make sure you note the name "Roger
Moore"...because his name just made the mainstream news today:

http://tinyurl.com/dnqlt