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THE NEW AMERICAN -- December 11, 1995
Copyright 1995 -- American Opinion Publishing, Incorporated
P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI  54913

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ARTICLE: Front Page
TITLE: Prior Knowledge
SUBTITLE: Powerful evidence exists that federal agents
          were not surprised by OKC blast
AUTHOR: William F. Jasper

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One of the most persistent and vexing questions to arise in the
immediate aftermath of the April 19th terrorist bombing in Oklahoma
City concerns the matter of prior knowledge: Did agents and
agencies of the federal government know about the bomb plot ahead
of time? If so, could not this mass murder have been prevented?

Questions along these lines have been shouted down by politicians
and media mavens as the perfervid rantings of dangerous militia
partisans, "hate mongers," and "conspiracy kooks." Oklahoma
Governor Frank Keating, himself a former FBI official and Treasury
Department functionary under James Baker, has been especially quick
to lead the chorus in denouncing all those who raise legitimate
questions about troubling discrepancies in the federal
investigation. The shock and anger Americans have felt over this
abominable crime have been shamelessly directed at principled
critics of Clintonista socialism and new world order
internationalism. Such critics have been cast as "voices of hate"
and "right-wing, anti-government forces."

Lies and Cover-up

In the ensuing months since the bombing, however, the unanswered
questions have festered and multiplied as new evidence and
witnesses have piled on top of old. These include:

* A conspicuous absence of ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms) personnel at the Murrah Building on April 19th.

* An official ATF explanation of the whereabouts of office
personnel on April 19th which contains a demonstrable lie.

* Admissions by ATF personnel at the bomb scene that they had been
tipped off in advance.

* Conflicting stories by ATF officials concerning whether or not
they were expecting "trouble" on April 19th.

* Admissions by sources connected to the Oklahoma City FBI office
that they had been tipped off prior to the explosion.

* Admissions by personnel of the Oklahoma City Fire Department that
they had been notified by the FBI of an impending bomb attack.

* Witness accounts of police bomb squads outside the Murrah
Building an hour before the blast.

* A U.S. Marshals Service memorandum warning of an impending major
bomb threat.

* An informant for the U.S. Department of Justice who provided very
accurate and specific advance warning of an impending bomb attack.

* A federal judge in Oklahoma City who told of heightened security
concerns immediately before the bombing.

* A federal grand juror who has charged federal prosecutors with
covering up the identities of additional suspects in the crime.

* Accusations by a highly decorated scientist at the FBI's vaunted
crime lab that some of his colleagues -- including a major expert
in the Oklahoma bombing -- tampered with evidence, fabricated
evidence, and committed perjury concerning evidence in major cases.

* Taped conversations between an informant in the New York Trade
Center bombing and an FBI agent indicating that the FBI may have
had specific prior knowledge about that plot and may have been in
a position to foil that deadly blast but for some reason failed to
do so.

A Can of Worms

The "prior knowledge" can of worms spilled before the public eye on
national television when bombing victim Edye Smith zeroed in on
troubling rumors of an ATF tip-off. Smith, who lost her two young
sons, Chase and Colton, in the explosion, told CNN reporter Gary
Tuchman that she was troubled by unanswered questions, such as:
"Where was ATF? All 15 or 17 of their employees survived, and they
lived -- they're on the ninth floor. They were the target of this
explosion, and where were they? Did they have a warning sign? And
did they think it might be a bad day to go into the office? They
had an option to not go to work that day, and my kids didn't get
that option. Nobody else in the building got that option. And we're
just asking questions, we're not making accusations. We just want
to know, and they're telling us, 'Keep your mouth shut, don't talk
about it.'"

The ATF responded immediately, claiming, "Rumors that employees of
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) had evacuated the
Murrah Building prior to the April 19th bombing are entirely
false." Lester D. Martz, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas ATF
office, stated in a May 23rd press release: "I strongly suspect
that these malicious rumors are fueled by the same sources as the
negative rhetoric that has been recently circulating about law
enforcement officers. The facts are that ATF's employees in
Oklahoma City were carrying out their assigned duties as they would
any work day, and several of them were injured in the explosion."

Moreover, claimed Martz, "Several ATF employees were actually
heroes on April 19th." His press release then went on to describe
this ill-devised apocryphal tale of heroism:

"ATF's Resident Agent in Charge Alex McCauley was with a DEA agent
in the elevator when the bomb exploded. The elevator dropped in a
free fall from the eighth floor to the third. The two men were
trapped in the smoke-filled elevator.... On their fourth attempt,
they managed to break through the doors and escape from the
elevator. The agents made their way to the stairwell and brought
with them 10 or 15 people they found along the way...."

The McCauley elevator story was repeated again the following day on
CNN by ATF director John Magaw. But the story was refuted by those
who were on the scene and were in a position to know the facts. The
free-falling elevator yarn was first subjected to media scrutiny by
J.D. Cash of the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel, Oklahoma. Cash
interviewed members of the elevator inspection and repair crew who
were at the site minutes after the explosion. Repairman Duane James
told the Gazette that McCauley's story was "pure fantasy." James
said that he and other members of his crew checked and double-
checked each elevator that terrible morning to make certain that no
one was trapped inside. J.D. Cash reported in the Gazette:

"Of the six passenger elevators, five were stopped between floors,
their doors blown inward, prompting the safety mechanisms to freeze
them in place....

" 'Once that occurs, the doors cannot be opened -- period,' James
said. 'What I and some others did was kick in the ceilings on each
of those elevators and determined that no one was in them.'

"He said only one passenger elevator could later be repaired and
operated manually, 'and that one was sitting at floor level on
three or four....'

"Certainly it had not 'free fallen,' he said, nor had any of the
others."

According to James, the elevators were equipped with safety
switches to protect against excessive speed and acceleration. "None
of those switches were tripped on any of the elevators in that
building," James told Cash. "I, along with other men with our
company, checked the equipment several times. Absolutely no
elevators dropped that morning." In fact, said James, it is
impossible for modern elevators like those in the Murrah Building
to drop "unless you cut the cables, because they are counter-
balanced to protect occupants from just that sort of danger."

Oscar Johnson, the president of Midwestern Elevator, the company
which employs Duane James, agrees that the falling elevator
scenario may make for good drama in a Schwartzenegger action
feature, but it is not something that happens in real life. "None
of the elevators fell," Johnson told The New American. "All of the
elevators' cables were intact." Moreover, Johnson pointed out that,
even if a free-fall of five stories had occurred, those inside
would have suffered severe injuries.

Johnson said that on the morning of April 19th two of his
technicians were about to begin an inspection of the Murrah
Building's elevators when the bomb went off. The men had met with
a General Services Administration inspector at the federal
courthouse across the street from the south side of the Murrah
Building at nine o'clock. All three men were walking through the
tunnel under 4th Street to the Murrah Building when the explosion
occurred. Within just a couple minutes of the blast they were at
the scene of the devastation, checking elevators, assisting
survivors, searching for trapped victims, and removing bodies.

Another of Johnson's technicians was sitting in his pickup truck in
front of the YMCA, across the street from the north side of the
Murrah Building, just a few dozen yards from the Ryder truck. He
was preparing for an inspection of the YMCA elevator when the bomb
detonated. Although chunks of concrete and metal shot through the
cab of his vehicle, shattering the windows and windshield, he was
unharmed and was soon helping with the rescue effort.

"Within about eight to ten minutes, we had about ten people at the
scene," Johnson told The New American. Getting the elevators
operational again was a top priority for the rescue effort. On
Thursday, April 20th, he and his crew had one passenger elevator
running, and the following day had the freight elevator operating.
Johnson, who had serviced the Murrah Building elevators for many
years and was intimately familiar with the building, insists that
the ATF account of Agent McCauley's experience is patently false.

ATF Tip-off

In the May 24th interview with ATF Director John Magaw, CNN's
senior Washington correspondent Charles Bierbauer asked, "Was there
some warning?" Magaw replied that "there was not any warning. We do
have 15 employees there. Five of them were in the building, and
three or four of those were injured. One was trapped on the ninth
floor and escaped later, one was in the hospital for about two
weeks. And she [Edye Smith] is right, we did not have any
fatalities."

According to Magaw, most of the ATF agents were either in court or
"out working on the street." "And so," said the ATF director, "you
will never find any time, unless you're having some office meeting
of some kind, where all 15 or 17 people will be in that particular
office." However, according to others who worked in the building
and who prefer to remain unnamed, the normal contingent of ATF
personnel at 9:00 a.m. in the Murrah Building was considerably more
than the five who were supposedly there on April 19th.

"Was there a bomb threat to ATF in Oklahoma City the day before?"
asked Bierbauer. "Were people told not to come into the
offices...?" "No," answered Magaw, "there was ... no bomb threat
specifically to ATF or any threat that I'm aware of. And they were
not told to not come in. This is -- this is false information...."

Perhaps. Or perhaps not. On September 12th, television station KFOR
Channel 4, Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate, broadcast interviews with
three witnesses who attested that ATF agents admitted to them to
being tipped in advance of the bombing. The witnesses, whose
identities were shielded in "shadow" interviews, arrived at the
bomb scene shortly after the blast. The first witness works just a
few blocks from the Murrah Building and rushed to the explosion
site to find his wife who worked inside the Murrah Building.
Spotting an ATF agent, he asked him to contact other ATF agents to
see if his wife had been found. The witness told KFOR's Brad
Edwards that the ATF agent "started getting a little bit nervous.
He tried reaching someone on a two-way radio, [but] couldn't get
anybody. I told him I wanted an answer right then. He said they
were in debriefing, that none of the agents had been in there.
They'd been tipped by their pagers not to come in to work that day.
Plain as day out of his
 mouth. Those were the words he said."

The second witness interviewed by KFOR was the first witness' boss,
and had accompanied him to the Murrah Building. He was standing
with the first witness when the ATF agent made the comments, and he
confirmed to KFOR the accuracy of the first witness's testimony.
The third witness was a female rescue worker. When she asked an ATF
agent on the scene if any of his fellow agents were still in the
building, she was told that the agents "weren't here" at the office
that morning.

In his May 24th interview, CNN correspondent Bierbauer asked the
ATF's Magaw about the relationship of the April 19th bombing to the
second anniversary of the Branch Davidian holocaust, an issue over
which there has been some marked inconsistencies. "Was there any
sense that you needed to be more alert because of that?" Bierbauer
queried.

"Clearly there was an interest all over the country to do that,"
replied Magaw. "And I was very concerned about that. We did some
things here in headquarters and in all of our field offices
throughout the country to try to be more observant. But ... we
didn't anticipate something like this. We were thinking about, you
know, demonstrations and things like that that might cause
problems." (Emphasis added.)

However, at the very time Magaw was claiming on national television
that his agency in Washington and all his field offices throughout
the country had been on heightened alert for the Waco anniversary,
ATF representatives in Oklahoma City were telling the families of
bombing victims an entirely different story. On the morning of May
24th, ATF agents Luke Franey and Chris Cuyler visited Edye Smith at
the home of her parents, Glenn and Kathy Wilburn. Glenn Wilburn
recalls:

"They told us that they didn't have the slightest hint that April
19th had any significance, that they weren't anticipating anything,
and that they had treated it like any other day -- nothing special.
I said, 'You mean to tell me that you're not aware that April 19th
is a real red letter day for many militia radicals... You mean you
weren't aware of this and didn't anticipate any activity?' They
assured me they hadn't known about the significance of the date and
they hadn't had any clue that anything might happen. They basically
had me convinced and had allayed my concerns about the rumors of
their prior knowledge. But a couple hours later, when I turned on
CNN, I saw John Magaw saying exactly the opposite, that ATF had
been on a 'Waco alert' nationwide. Somebody wasn't telling the
truth."

Bomb Squad on the Scene

Okay, but there is a difference between being on a general alert
because of a possible generalized threat, and more precise
knowledge of a specific threat at a specific time and place.
Federal agencies and facilities receive many bomb threats, most of
which turn out to be hoaxes. The burning question is whether or not
federal authorities had specific knowledge of a plot to bomb the
Murrah Building or other facilities in Oklahoma City around the
time of the actual crime. There is compelling evidence that this is
the case.

On April 23rd, the Sunday after the bombing, the Panola Watchman of
Carthage, Texas reported on the story of a local Carthage
businesswoman whose sister was involved in the explosion. The
sister, who was identified only as "Norma," works in the federal
courthouse building across the street from the south side of the
Murrah Building and was there on the morning of April 19th. That
same fateful morning, Norma's son Eddy was stopped at a red light
three blocks from the blast site when the explosion occurred.
Neither Norma or her son were harmed by the bomb even though they
were very near to ground zero. But Norma had been in a position to
witness a significant occurrence that tends to support claims of
official prior knowledge of the plot. Shortly after the bombing,
Norma recounted to Panola Watchman reporter Sherry Koonce what she
had seen prior to the explosion:

"The day was fine, everything was normal when I arrived at 7:45 to
begin my day at 8 a.m., but as I walked through my building's
parking lot, I remember seeing a bomb squad. I really did not think
about it -- especially when we did not hear more about it....

"There was some talk about the bomb squad among employees in our
office. We did wonder what it was doing in our parking lot.
Jokingly, I said, 'Well I guess we'll find out soon enough'....

"Around nine or maybe a little after I heard and felt it. It was a
huge explosion and our building was shaking with vibrations...."

Norma explained that when she and her co-workers fled the building,
"There was smoke and dust everywhere -- and bodies." The newspaper
continued Norma's account of that harrowing experience:

"We were walking fast and everyone seemed to be in a daze. We were
simply shocked and confused about what had happened.

"Then someone said, 'It had to be a bomb' ... and then we all knew,
I remember the bomb squad in our parking lot and knew what had
happened."

According to the Watchman, Norma does not wish to give any further
interviews, so The New American has been unable to confirm her
story. However, another woman who works in the federal courthouse
and whose child was killed in the Murrah Building day care center
has confirmed Norma's story of the bomb squad. Insisting on
anonymity, this grieving mother recounts that she was late for work
that tragic day, and remembered seeing the bomb squad as she
hurried into the building shortly after eight o'clock. An attorney
who works in the area has also attested to seeing the bomb squad in
the same area.

Denial, Confirmation

The Oklahoma City Fire Department, it appears, was also given
advance warning of the terrorist attack. Glenn Wilburn had heard
several reports concerning FBI tip-offs to the fire department
before the blast, and decided to check them out himself. When he
asked Assistant Chief Charles Gaines about the matter, he was met
with denial. Walking out of the chief's office, he went down the
hall to Chief Dispatcher Harvey Weathers' office and asked the same
question. "Harvey said yes, they had received a message from the
FBI on the Friday before the bombing that they should be on alert,"
Wilburn told The New American. He said he then told Weathers,
"Well, you're going to be surprised to learn that Chief Gaines'
memory is failing. He says it never happened." According to
Wilburn, Weathers then responded, "Well, you asked me and I told
you. I'm not going to lie for anybody. A lot of people don't want
to get involved in this." According to Wilburn, two other
dispatchers corroborated Weathers' story. All members of the
Oklahoma City police and fire departments have since been ordered
not to speak to anyone concerning events surrounding the bombing
unless it has first been cleared through official channels.

Judge Recalls Blast

On April 20th, the day after the explosion, the Oregonian, Oregon's
largest daily newspaper, interviewed Judge Wayne Alley, who was
born and raised in Portland, Oregon and who was soon to become a
central figure in the bombing case. In light of other revelations
that have surfaced in the ensuing months, Judge Alley's remarks in
the immediate aftermath of the bombing take on an added
significance. Reporter Dave Hogan wrote in the Oregonian:

"As a federal judge whose office faces the Alfred P. Murrah
Building across the street in Oklahoma City, Wayne Alley felt lucky
that he didn't go to his office Wednesday....

"The judge said the bombing came just a few weeks after security
officials had warned him to take extra precautions.

" 'Let me just say that within the past two or three weeks,
information has been disseminated ... that indicated concerns on
the part of people who ought to know that we ought to be a little
bit more careful,' he said.

"Alley, who started his law career in Portland, said he was
cautioned to be on the lookout for 'people casing homes or
wandering about in the courthouse who aren't supposed to be there,
[and] letter bombs. There has been an increased vigilance.'

"He said he was not given an explanation for the concern.

"Asked if this might have just been a periodic security reminder,
he said, 'My subjective impression was there was a reason for the
dissemination of those concerns.' "

Alley has since been appointed as the judge who will preside over
the trial of chief bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols.

Islamic Threat

Still another hint of federal prior knowledge comes from the U.S.
Marshals Service. On March 22nd, a little more than three weeks
before the Oklahoma bombing, the Newark, New Jersey Star-Ledger
reported that "U.S. law enforcement authorities have obtained
information that Islamic terrorists may be planning suicide attacks
against federal courthouses and government installations in the
United States. The attacks, it is feared, would be designed to
attract worldwide press attention through the murder of innocent
victims."

The story, by Star-Ledger correspondent Robert Rudolph, continued:

"The Star-Ledger has learned that U.S. law enforcement officials
have received a warning that a 'fatwa,' a religious ruling similar
to the death sentence targeting author Salmon Rushdie, has been
issued against federal authorities as a result of an incident
during the trial last year of four persons in the bombing of the
World Trade Center in New York.

"The disclosure was made in the confidential memorandum issued by
the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington calling for stepped-up
security at federal facilities throughout the nation....

"According to the memo, the information about the threat was
obtained from an unidentified 'informed source' who said the death
sentence was specifically directed against U.S. Marshals Service
personnel....

"The Marshals Service memo said the agency believes that 'there is
sufficient threat potential to request that a heightened level of
security awareness and caution be implemented at all Marshals
Service-protected facilities nationwide.' "

The memo, issued by U.S. Marshals Service Director Eduardo
Gonzalez, warned that attacks may be designed to "target as many
victims as possible and draw as much media coverage as possible" to
the fundamentalist cause. "The terrorists, possible suicide
bombers, will not engage in negotiations," the memo warned, and
"once the press is on the scene, the new plans call for blowing
everyone up."

Early Informant

While no "Islamic fundamentalists" have taken credit for the
Oklahoma City bombing, many details of the warning and the timing
of the Oklahoma blast seem to indicate that the memo certainly may
have pertained to the mass murder at the Murrah Building.

An even more intriguing and compelling piece of evidence comes in
the form of a warning allegedly delivered to the U.S. Justice
Department offices in Denver less that two weeks before the
Oklahoma bombing. U.S. Attorney Henry Solano confirmed that his
Denver office granted immunity last September to an informant who
claimed to have information about a plot to bomb a federal
building.

This same informant reportedly delivered a letter to the Justice
Department on April 6th claiming to have "specific information that
within two weeks" a federal building was to be bombed. The
informant's hand-written letter stated:

"After leaving Denver for what I thought would be a long time, I
returned here last night because I have specific information that
within two weeks a federal building(s) is to be bombed in this area
or nearby....

"I would not ignore this specific request for you personally to
contact me immediately regarding a plot to blow up a federal bldg.
If the information is false request Mr. Allison to charge me
accordingly. If you and/or your office does not contact me as I so
request herein, I will never again contact any law enforcement
agency, federal or state, regarding those matters [indecipherable
word] in the letter of immunity."

After the April 19th bombing, spokesmen for the Justice Department
stated that they had not -- and still do not -- deem the informant
to be credible. However, last September they had apparently deemed
him credible enough to grant him immunity. That is not a prize
which federal prosecutors dispense frivolously to every "informant"
who walks through the door. The informant's immunity letter of
September 14, 1994 on U.S. Justice Department stationery reads:

"This letter is to memorialize the agreement between you and the
United States of America, by the undersigned Assistant United
States Attorney. The terms of this agreement are as follows:

"1. You have contacted the U.S. Marshals Service on today's date
indicating that you have information concerning a conspiracy and/or
attempt to destroy United States court facilities in [redacted] and
possibly other cities.

"2. The United States agrees that any statement and/or information
that you provide relevant to this conspiracy/conspiracies or
attempts will not be used against you in any criminal proceeding.
Further, the United States agrees that no evidence derived from the
information or statements provided by you will be used in any way
against you...."

The informant claims that he was acting as a courier transporting
illegal drugs from Kingman, Arizona to Las Vegas and Denver when he
discovered C-4 explosives in a delivery envelope. He also says he
overheard discussions about a plot to blow up a federal building,
or buildings, in the Midwest sometime in mid-April 1995. The
alleged conspirators were Latin American or Middle Eastern with
Arabic names. Kingman, Arizona, of course, was home to Timothy
McVeigh and Michael Fortier, both of whom are charged in the
bombing of the Murrah Building. According to our information the
informant did not report seeing McVeigh or Fortier or hearing their
names in connection with the bomb plot. However, as we have
reported previously in The New American (September 4th, "Searching
for John Doe No. 2" and October 16th, "Startling OKC
Developments"), reliable witnesses have identified apparent Middle
Eastern accomplices in the company of McVeigh in the days prior to
April 19th and on that fateful mo
rning with McVeigh in and near the Ryder truck.

Grand Juror Speaks Out

In the November 27th issue of The New American ("New Charges of OKC
Cover-up"), we reported on the serious charges leveled against
federal prosecutors in the case by grand juror Hoppy Heidelberg.
Heidelberg had attempted to expose improper interference with the
grand jury's duties by federal prosecutors. Specifically, he
accused the government of covering up the identity of the still
missing John Doe No. 2, arguably the most sought after fugitive in
history. For his civic-minded efforts he was dismissed from the
jury and threatened with possible fines and imprisonment.

Fortunately, Heidelberg has continued to speak out. And, amazingly,
he has even received some positive coverage from certain vehicles
of the controlled Establishment media which have otherwise
performed deplorably with virtually all of their reporting on
Oklahoma City. A prime example of this rare and responsible
journalism could be found on CNN's Burden of Proof program on
November 11th. In an amazing turn of events, the program's co-
hosts, Greta Van Susteran and Roger Cossack, as well as the panel
of three legal experts, all came down on the side of Heidelberg.
Cossack even exclaimed ardently, "I think Hoppy's a hero." Plainly,
the government's credibility in this case is in tatters.

Adding to this credibility crisis are the recent revelations of FBI
scientist Dr. Frederic Whitehurst. Special Agent Whitehurst, a top
chemist in the FBI's celebrated crime lab, has shaken the Bureau
and the Justice Department with accusations of perjury, evidence
tampering, and evidence fabrication in hundreds of high-profile
cases stretching back several years. Moreover, he charges that his
superiors have refused to correct these criminal malpractices and
have covered up for the guilty parties. Although we have not yet
been able to satisfactorily verify Whitehurst's charges, many of
them appear to have merit. If even a fraction of them prove to be
true, they should serve to topple Janet Reno, Louis Freeh, and
others leading the government's effort in the Oklahoma City case.

However, the Whitehurst accusations, serious as they are, pale into
relative insignificance next to the explosive allegations of Emad
E. Salem, an FBI informant in the World Trade Center bombing.
Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the
U.S. government to infiltrate the group of Muslims convicted of the
New York City bombing which left six dead and more than 1,000
injured. According to Salem, he was originally supposed to
substitute "phony powder" for the explosive ingredients used in the
bomb, but was foiled by an FBI supervisor who "came and messed it
up."

Although hardly a paragon of virtue, Salem has brought forth taped
conversations with FBI agents that seem to lend credibility to his
fantastic claim. Did the FBI fail to prevent the Trade Center
bombing when it was well within its power to do so? If so, why? Who
was responsible? If federal officials -- due to incompetence,
negligence, or other reasons -- did indeed fail to stop the New
York bombing (or even contributed to its perpetration), is it not
appropriate to ask if some similar "foul-up" may have occurred in
Oklahoma?

Is dismissed grand juror Hoppy Heidelberg correct in claiming that
the federal investigators are covering up the identity of John Doe
No. 2? Why were some of the most important witnesses in the
Oklahoma City case not called before the grand jury? Why was the
Denver informant granted immunity and then not listened to? Why is
he still considered "not credible" after providing details in
advance of the event which would require either the inside
knowledge he claims or special clairvoyant skills? Why did the ATF
lie about the events of April 19th? Why have the Oklahoma City
fire, police, and sheriff's departments been placed under gag
orders?

Clearly, there are many pieces of this puzzle that point toward
foreknowledge of the bombing plot by federal officials prior to the
terrible moment at 9:02 a.m. on April 19th, when the murderers'
bomb (or bombs) ended the lives of 169 people. These witnesses and
pieces of evidence cannot be ignored or summarily dismissed. They
deserve a thorough and fair investigation. And Americans must
demand one, or face the certain prospect of additional -- and
perhaps more heinous -- terrorist acts.

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