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THE DIOGENES REPORT

The Wit, Wisdom & Wituperation of Emanuel L. Strunin

January 2002, Volume II, # 2

A CONSPIRACY ON THE HOME FRONT?

Remember when Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the presidency during the 1st Bush recession was kept on track by James Carville’s battle cry: “it’s the economy stupid”? In America’s reaction to the long chain of events that led up to the September 11 attacks,

I had been thinking that stupidity was the operative word when it came to describing
the activities, or lack thereof, of the FBI, CIA, NSA, State Department and other agencies of our government.

But as more information about what happened, and what is still happening, our problem is that: “it’s not the stupidity, stupid”. The lack of effective action against real and potential terrorists appears to me to have been purposeful. Even now, following the ostensible “wake up call” of September 11—which seems to me as more of a gentle

wake up nudge than a wake up call—the American Government is still doing a

half-assed job in cracking down on a dangerous fifth column on the home front.

Cut Off The Fundamentalists, As Well As The Funds

We keep hearing about the shut down of fund collecting and transmitting capabilities of some 150 Islamic organization in this country involved in the terror network. We have yet to hear of the arrest of organization officials and contributors. These people helped make September 11 possible. Our government knows who these people are so why are they still running free?

When everyone knows that the major threats of terrorism are coming from the nations

of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria why is our government sending out signals about imminent attacks on Somalia. The reason is because our stated war policy to uproot terrorism wherever it may be is combined with a policy not to step on too many Arab or Moslem toes. Even Secretary of State Colon Bowel who is unwilling to harm a hair on the head of any Moslem terrorist is mumbling about attacking Somalia. It’s just another sign that we still have not had a true wakeup call.

Was Osama Involved In Oklahoma City?

But what should be even more troublesome to the American people is that our government continues to hide, even at this late date, the information about an Arab connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. There is still a reluctance to paint the

Arabs in their all of their unmitigated evil colors. It would indeed be interesting to

know which individuals and agencies are responsible for keeping these truths from

the American people.

By the way, all of the following information which is known to the FBI and the CIA,

as well as to Israel’s security agencies comes from an article “Did McVeigh Have A Mideast Link”? by Elliot Goldenberg which appeared in the Washington Jewish Week in October 2001.

Three days before the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building a number of Israeli agents were dispatched to Oklahoma City based on information obtained by

Israel. about some kind of terrorist event. Following the bombing, Israeli experts determined that the explosives had some of the specific characteristics of those used by Arab terrorists. The Israelis took the information to the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) which turned it over to the FBI.

As was widely reported shortly before McVeigh’s execution, the Justice Department

did not turn over to Mc Veigh’s attorneys over 3,000 documents that included

interviews and tips about potential suspects, as well as photographs and other forms of evidence. Included were interviews and information about a John Doe Number Two,

who was sketched shortly after the bombing, but who government spokespeople eventually claimed did not exist. There is strong evidence that the spokespeople were lying.

Early Warnings Ignored

Goldenberg tells that he was given a copy of an intelligence memo written hours before

the Oklahoma City bombing that there was an apparent Islamic terrorist plot to blow up one of three targets in Oklahoma City, Los Angeles or Houston. The author of the

memo, Vincent Cannistrano, former chief of CIA counter-terrorism operations, passed

it on to the FBI’s Washington Metropolitan Field Office.

According to the article, Cannistrano said that he received a phone call from an

unidentified Saudi citizen who worked as a counter-terrorism official for the Saudi

royal family and whose job it was to develop intelligence to help prevent the royal

family from becoming the victims of terrorists. The Saudi told Cannistrano that he had solid information that there was a squad of people in the United States tasked with carrying out these terrorist attacks. Cannistrano was unable to corroborate the validity

of the information and turned it over to the FBI, as the agency responsible for

anti-terror activities in the United States. All of this took place before the Oklahoma

City bombing.

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In addition two warnings were issued to the Americans by the Israelis,

according to Goldenberg.

Remember John Doe Number Two?

Two years later, at the demand of Rep. Charles Key of the Oklahoma legislature,

a State Grand Jury was impaneled to look more closely at the bombing. Testifying

before the Grand Jury, Jayna Davis, a former TV reporter, was the first to identify

John Doe Number Two as a former Iraqi soldier who entered the U. S. as student at the University of South Florida. Goldenberg, who was able to review the Iraqi’s intelligence dossier and surveillance photos, notes that he was seen in Oklahoma City in the

company of McVeigh just days before the bombing. Most of Davis’s testimony was

kept secret.

While the FBI did investigate the Arab connection in Oklahoma City, Tampa, Miami

and Ft. Lauderdale and the question remained whether Timothy McVeigh acted

on his own or was he just a small cog in a much large Islamic terrorist conspiracy, the American Government chose to label the bombing as “homegrown” terrorism.

Maybe. But Goldenberg says that his Israeli intelligence sources refer to the bomber
as “Lee Harvey” McVeigh. And with the emergence of John Walker, the “American

Taliban”, the possibility of a McVeigh-Osama connection is not so far fetched.

My question is, if there was a “wake-up call on September 11 why is our government

still sweeping a potential Arab-Oklahoma City connection under the rug?