But Goldenberg says it is no mere coincidence that a number of Israeli intelligence agents were dispatched to Oklahoma City three days prior to the bombing of the federal building. This is no coincidence either:

In May of 1998, Goldenberg received a copy of an Israeli intelligence memo, which he still has, written just hours before the Oklahoma bombing. It had been passed on to the Washington Metropolitan Field Office of the FBI by Vincent Cannistrano, former chief of counter-terrorism operations at the CIA, and warned of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up one of three "targets" in Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, and possibly Houston.

"Cannistrano had received a phone call on April 19, 1995, from an unspecified Saudi citizen who worked as a counter-terrorism official for the Saudi Royal Family," Goldenberg writes. "That source. . . told Cannistrano he had solid information that there was a 'squad' of people in the U.S. that had been tasked with carrying out these attacks. At the time, Cannistrano could not comment on the reliability of the information, nor could he corroborate it."

At the demand of Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key, a grand jury was convened two years later. Writes Goldenberg: "In September 1997, the Oklahoma State Grand Jury subpoenaed Jayna Davis, a former television reporter for KFOR, Channel 4, in Oklahoma City. In reports aired on KFOR, Davis was the first to publicly identify the never-before-named 'John Doe Number Two,' alleging he was a former Iraqi soldier who may have entered the U.S. as a student at the University of South Florida.

"Through my sources I was allowed access to this former Iraqi soldier's intelligence dossier and surveillance photos and learned that he had been seen in Oklahoma City, in the company of McVeigh, only days before the bombing."

Also, this news item appeared a day after the Oklahoma bombing in Yediot Arhonot , a Tel Aviv newspaper: "The FBI launched a widespread search for three young men, aged about 25, two of them described as wearing beards and being of Middle Eastern appearance."

Goldenberg has stunning evidence that needs to be thoroughly investigated. Why hasn't it been?

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