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| 2011-03-12 | ||
Then came the surprise. Readers commenting on a story about Wednesday's arrest on The Patriot Ledger's website noted that a man with the same name was mentioned prominently in a book about the deadly bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. By Thursday afternoon, police had contacted the FBI and spoken to the book's author. Jayna Davis, author of the 2004 book "Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," said she asked a Quincy police detective if Hussain Al-Hussaini, the man police arrested, had a tattoo of an anchor with a snake wrapped around it. He did. Police sent her a photo of him. "His age, his name, the picture, the mug shot -- that's him," Davis told The Patriot Ledger via telephone after speaking with police. She said the anchor-and-snake tattoo was common among members of a branch of the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein. An FBI spokesman in Boston, Greg Comcowich, said Thursday night that a man named Hussain Al-Hussaini was "thoroughly investigated" in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing and "was found to not have any role whatsoever in the attack on the Murrah Federal Building in 1995." Comcowich said the Hussain Al-Hussaini the FBI investigated had been seen with bomber Timothy McVeigh before the April 19, 1995, bombing, which killed 168 people.
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| #3 I read Jayna Davis' book, The Third Terrorist, as well as Others Unknown, by McVeigh's defense counsel Stephen Jones. Davis was a local reporter who smelled a rat, and Jones makes no excuses for McVeigh. I thought the accounts were credible, consistent with each other, and raise good questions that have never been satisfactorily answered. So if "Hussain Al-Hussaini was found to not have any role whatsoever in the attack on the Murrah Federal Building in 1995," I would be extremely interested in a detailed explanation of exactly how, when, and why the FBI arrived at that conclusion. Is it out there and I just haven't seen it? |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-03-12 20:16 |
| #2 everybody knows McVeigh was motivated by right-wing talk radio like Rush. Bill Clinton said so |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-12 15:31 |
| #1 Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see here ... Move along. |
| Posted by: One Eyed Omease2378 2011-03-12 15:25 |