otherwise

Radio logs and other documentary materials provide transcripts of
OKC police and fire department personnel discussing the removal of
additional explosives. Reports of up to four bombs have surfaced. 14
“As reported widely on CNN and TV stations across the nation, up
to four primed bombs were found…inside what remained of the
Murrah federal building on April 19, 1995,” asserts investigative
journalist Ian Williams Goddard. 1 5 Even more revealing: on the day
of the bombing, KFOR television also broadcast that as many as
two explosive charges had been located that were far more lethal
than the original charge that nearly toppled the Murrah building. 1 6
The significance of this statement cannot be ignored as it suggests
that highly powerful non-ANFO explosive devices were detected
inside the building.
Although press flacks for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms (BATF) later claimed these devices were “training bombs,”
Goddard scoffs at this explanation. He notes that the allegedly nonexplosive
“practice bombs” were tracked down by dogs trained to
sniff for explosives, and if they were indeed deactivated “dummies,”
as described by BATF spokesmen, there would be little need for the
bomb squad to “defuse” them. 17
There are also a number of witnesses who have testified to distinctly
hearing or experiencing two separate blasts. Attorney Charles
Watts was in the federal courtroom across the street at 9:02 that
fateful morning. He told Media Bypass that he heard an explosion
that knocked everyone to the floor and, as the Vietnam vet hit the
deck, he alleges he felt a second detonation far more powerful than
the first. “There were two explosions…the second blast made me
think the whole building was coming in,” he recalls. 18
“Others Unknown”
Despite the indictment and later conviction of McVeigh and Nichols,
many still maintain that other conspirators were selectively ignored
by federal investigators. These allegations are not just being voiced
in the underground press. In the months leading up to McVeigh’s
trial, the Denver Post also “found evidence that the Oklahoma City
Bombing plot involved the assistance of at least one person the
government hasn’t charged in the case.” 22
This belief that a more far-reaching conspiracy helped facilitate the
attack on the Murrah building was shared by the Grand Jury that
indicted Timothy McVeigh. The official indictment cites “others
unknown,” a decision obviously intended by the jury to signify the
existence of co-conspirators still not apprehended. 23 Unfortunately,
the subsequent convictions of Nichols and McVeigh have led government
sources to staunchly assert that the embittered veterans
were the sole perpetrators behind the terrorist attack. However, if
ANFO is physically incapable of causing the level of damage sustained
by the Murrah building, and if evidence shows that more than
one explosion occurred on April 19, 1995, one must at least consider
the existence of a more far-reaching conspiracy than the one
sanctified by the mainstream media.
Another disturbing development that has served to undermine the
credibility of the prosecution is the discovery of evidence which
seems to indicate that the federal government possessed prior
knowledge of an imminent terrorist strike on the Murrah building.
Those Who Knew
Adam Parfrey’s influential essay on the subject, “Oklahoma City: Cui
Bono,” reveals that D r. Charles Mankin of the University of
Oklahoma Geological Survey found that there were two separate
explosions based on his analysis of seismographic data from two
facilities. Seismograms show two distinct “spikes” roughly ten seconds
apart. 19 “The Norman seismogram clearly shows two shocks
of equal magnitude…the Omniplex…depicts events so violent they
sent the instruments off the scale for more than ten seconds,”
reports New Dawn magazine. 20
This substantial body of evidence lends
credence to the existence of additional
(and deadlier) explosives inside the
building, which creates the distinct possibility
that other suspects were either
ignored or successfully eluded federal
law enforcement. This development openly contradicts A t t o r n e y
General Janet Reno’s claim that the bombing investigation would
“leave no stone unturned.” 21
In the wake of the blast, rumors immediately began circulating that
members of law enforcement received warnings of the bombing
which they failed to relay to the public. Edye Smith, whose sons
Chase and Colton perished in the blast, brought this issue before
the public in the aftermath of the deadly blast. “Where was ATF?”
she asked. “Fifteen of seventeen employees survived…They were
the target of the explosion…Did they have advance warning?…My
two kids didn’t get that option,” Smith lamented. The distraught
In the months leading up to McVeigh’s trial,
the Denver Post “found evidence
that the Oklahoma City Bombing plot involved the
assistance of at least one person the
government hasn’t charged in the case.”
mother went on to tell reporters that BATF investigators ordered her
to “shut up…don’t talk about it,” when she demanded to know why
only two employees of the embattled agency were in the building at
the time of the blast. 24
Soon others began to relate further insights into the possibility of
prior government knowledge. Frustrated federal informants Gary
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