The Middle Eastern Connection to 1990s Terrorism in America

Jayna Davis has been trying to get people to pay attention to this since 1995.

Reporter Jayna Davis was one of the first journalists to broadcast news of the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. After apprehending Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, officials quickly abandoned investigation into other participants in planning and executing the attack. Davis did not.

.... Davis soon uncovered that several employees at an Oklahoma City property-management company said they had seen a brown Chevy truck like the getaway vehicle aggressively pursued by law enforcement parked outside their office in the days before the bombing. The company's owner was a Palestinian with a rap sheet and suspected ties to the PLO....

While pursuing the story of these Middle Eastern men, Davis also became aware of another ex-Iraqi soldier in Oklahoma City named Hussain Hashem Al-Hussaini. She was taken aback to see that Al-Hussaini's picture, when overlaid with the government sketch of John Doe No. 2, was arguably a perfect match. He even sported a tattoo on his upper left arm indicating that he likely had served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard....

Davis has 80 pages of affidavits and 2,000 supporting documents, and they suggest not only an Iraqi connection to the Murrah bombing, but also to the attacks against the Twin Towers.

For example, Nichols was a man of modest means. Yet he traveled frequently to the Philippines. Davis discovered that Nichols was there, in Cebu City in December 1994, at the same time as the convicted mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack, Ramzi Yousef.

She has also found evidence that Islamic terrorists boasted of having recruited two "lily whites" for terrorism.

Al-Hussaini had a very American response to Davis' investigation. He sued for defamation. In a ruling on Nov. 17, 1999, federal Judge Timothy Leonard dismissed the case.

In 1995, the federal grand jury proclaimed in the official indictment that McVeigh and Nichols acted with "others unknown." And several members of the Denver juries who convicted the two said publicly that they thought they had help.

Since 1997, Davis has repeatedly tried to interest the FBI in her investigation. She has been rebuffed.

As for Al-Hussaini, after leaving Oklahoma City, he went on to work at Boston's Logan International Airport, the point of origin for several for the 9/11 hijackers, including Mohammad Atta.

One more thing. That motel where McVeigh, Nichols and Al-Hussaini were seen together was later visited (pre-9/11) by Atta, Zacharias Moussaouy and Marwan Al-Shehi.

(For more on the motel, see The Terrorist Motel: The I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta.)

The senior senator from Scotland Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, has heard testimony from Davis and plans an investigation. Indiana congressman Dan Burton is also conducting a probe into the OKC bombing.

(Thanks Bryan.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 10/15/02 11:51:29 AM
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