INS Deported al Qaeda-Linked Suspect Just Days After Oklahoma Bombing

[JayS]

INS Deported al Qaeda-Linked Suspect Just Days After Oklahoma Bombing

Gov't Returned Evidence, Erased Charges, Despite Ties to OKC Bombing Confession

By J.M. BERGER

http://www.intelwire.com/khalifa100603.html


Seven days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the INS agreed to deport a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden who had been implicated as a possible accessory to the attack by a jailhouse confession and documents relating to bomb construction.

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Arrested in San Francisco on an immigration violation in December 1994, Khalifa was a figure of primary interest to the FBI, which suspected him of assisting al Qaeda operatives Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad in a plot to bomb a dozen U.S. airliners from their base in the Philippines earlier that year, according to Peter Lance (http://www.peterlance.com ), author of "1000 Years for Revenge," a new book covering the FBI's investigation of Yousef.

Evidence in the FBI's possession at the time potentially implicated the Saudi businessman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the airliner bombing plot and the Oklahoma City bombing. Khalifa was formally named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 New York City Landmarks bombing plot.

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On the basis of evidence in the FBI's hands at the time a deal was finally approved in April, Khalifa was at minimum a material witness in the three biggest criminal cases in the history of the United States.

On the day of the Oklahoma bombing, Murad told a prison guard that the "Liberation Army" was responsible for the attack, an allegation he repeated to the FBI the following day, according to documents obtained by Lance, who contributed to this article.

Convicted World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef had claimed responsibility for the 1993 WTC attack on behalf of the Liberation Army. Items seized from his Manila apartment and at the time of his arrest also contained references to the group.

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[cspiguy]

1. nonsense. Everyone knows Limbaugh was responsible

(if you believe the awful reports following that awful day)

[reccos75]

2. Janya Davis book

Have you read the new book The Third Terrorist? Its pretty interesting.

[JayS]

3. I have not read her book yet but plan to soon. The trial is...

...starting to get interesting.


Have you listened to this NPR clip? (3:33)

Go to http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1846269 for a short but interesting audio clip. Click on "All Things Considered audio" and you can listen in RealAudio or Windows Media.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi reccos75!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[paulthompson]

4. this link doesn't work for me

The whole intelwire website doesnt work for me. Does anyone have the rest? What's the original source?

[Cocoa]

5. some guy that wrote a book

Peter Lance?

There's a whole slew of conspiracy theories about OKC, many of them right-wing and
anti-Clinton. Probably a lot of it is Scaife-funded.

[JayS]

6. The link works for me. Perhaps the site was down when you...

...checked it?

Here is some info on the current trial if you are interested. The NPR audio clip is really something.

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Go to http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1846269 for a short (3:33) but interesting audio clip. Click on "All Things Considered audio" and you can listen in RealAudio or Windows Media.

Also of interest:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040419/ap_on_go_c ...

Document: Oklahoma City Bombing Was Taped
By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 19, 6:59 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) may have had accomplices at the scene.

"Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck," the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation.

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An entry a day earlier on the same log reported that the security video was consistent with a witness' account that he saw McVeigh's getaway car in the lead before a woman guided the truck to its final parking spot in front of the Murrah building.

"A witness to the explosion named Grossman claimed to have seen a pale yellow Mercury car with a Ryder truck behind it pulling up to the federal building," the log said. The witness "further claimed to have seen a woman on the corner waving to the truck."

A Secret Service agent named McNally "noted that this fact is significant due to the fact that the security video shows the Ryder truck pulling up to the Federal Building and then pausing (7 to 10 seconds) before resuming into the slot in front of the building," the log said. "It is speculated that the woman was signaling the truck when a slot became available."

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