According to the federal government, an Ammonia
Nitrate-Fuel Oil (ANFO) truck bomb allegedly destroyed the Alfred P.
Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City on the morning of Wednesday,
April 19, 1995. Also, according to recently released government documents,
an individual experienced in loading large amounts of ammonia nitrate
fertilizer into a vehicle for use as a terrorist truck bomb was present at
the OKC scene and actually witnessed the worst terrorist attack in U.S.
history [till then]. Records indicate that this ANFO explosives expert and
his associates had constructed and destroyed at least eight vehicles in
"test bombing experiments" out at a secret range in the New Mexico desert
in the twelve months prior to the OKC bombing. He and his fellow
explosives experts even photographed and videotaped these truck bombs as
they detonated.
This individual is, however, not a
known associate of suspects Terry Lynn Nichols and Timothy James McVeigh
or any so-called "anti government militia" in the United States. The
"vehicle bomb expert," Special Agent Harry Everhart, is an employee of the
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. And, according to federal
government records obtained by Media Bypass, Everhart, an accomplished ATF
expert in ANFO truck bombs, was actually one of the first federal law
officers to report the details of the bombing to his superiors from the
scene in front of the Murrah Building, within minutes of the blast.
The Department of Treasury confirms that Everhart called
the ATF office in Dallas on his cellular phone and reported that the
Murrah Building had just been attacked by an ANFO truck bomb at around
9:20 a.m. that morning. Records reveal that this particular ATF agent
would clearly be qualified to make such an instant observation. Everhart,
based out of the BATF's Oklahoma City Resident Agency, serves on the
National Response Team (NRT), a group of experienced bomb and arson
investigators who respond to major bombing crime scenes throughout the
United States. He also served on a secret government project in 1994 that
conducted tests using ANFO and C-4 to blow up cars and vans in a
classified U.S. government experiment known as "Project Dipole Might."
According to files, reports and photographs obtained by Media Bypass from
the Department of the Treasury through a Freedom of Information Act
request, the United States government initiated a "comprehensive ANFO and
C4 vehicle bomb testing program" about a year before the OKC bombing.
Records show the project was supervised and administered by ATF, but was
actually funded through a National Security Council directive. The
Department of Treasury confirms the project was initiated under President
Bill Clinton's NSC White House staff shortly after he took office in 1993.
The "Road" to Oklahoma City?
The documents reveal that ATF not only built and
detonated these home-made vehicle bombs, they actually set up test
surfaces to replicate "four of the most common roadbed types in the United
States," to cause the bombs to function in an environment where the crime
scene teams evidently expected to encounter such a device somewhere in
America. Furthermore, video footage obtained through these secret
experiments is expected to be presented as evidence in the government's
case against suspects Timothy James McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols. The
stated intent of the Dipole Might experiments in 1994 includes making
videos and computer models to "be displayed in a courtroom to aid in the
prosecution of defendants" in vehicle bomb cases, according to government
documents concerning the purpose of the project. The exact precedent and
purpose of this activity is unclear. ATF agents started blowing up vans
and cars in Spring, 1994 at the White Sands Missile Range in order to
supposedly collect test data for post-blast forensics computer software
packages to be issued out to National Response Team personnel when they
respond to truck bombings. Why the National Security Council would fund
such an ATF project, despite the absolute rarity of the crime, has not
been explained. The NSC is part of the Executive Branch and evidently
mandated the ATF's funding for Dipole Might in early 1993, shortly after
Bill Clinton was sworn in as President.
Nor has it been explained as to what specific threat
assessment information the government had when it decided to engage in
such a project, just a few months before a Ryder Truck laden with ammonium
nitrate fertilizer exploded in front of the Murrah Building. Indeed the
only major ANFO vehicle bombing in U.S. history, prior to OKC, occurred in
August, 1970 at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wis. One of the
key suspects in that bombing, Leo Frederick Burt, is, incidentally, still
at large. (Contrary to media reports, the World Trade Center Bomb of
February 1993 was composed of Urea Nitrate, not ANFO, according to the
FBI. They should know since they were in contact with the bomb-maker.)
Despite only one known case in almost 25 years, did
Clinton's National Security Council actually anticipate a need for
detailed information regarding ANFO vehicle bomb attacks a few months
prior to the Oklahoma City blast? Evidently, such a bombing was exactly
what they were expecting. Treasury's own official documents reveal the
intensity of this interest. In fact, a brief summary of "Project Dipole
Might" is featured in ATF's 1994 Annual Report to Congress. It reads:
"Dipole Might is the name given to a research project
ATF is working on in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
and the Defense Nuclear Agency. The objective of this three year
project, funded by the National Security Council in 1993, is to create a
computerized data base and investigative protocol for the investigation
of large scale vehicle bombs. The basic computer software is intended to
be in a format useable by law enforcement agencies around the world in
crime scene management and analysis. The data will be integrated into
this retrievable system so that it can be displayed in a courtroom to
aid in the prosecution of defendants, aid in the security design of
buildings, improve security response procedures, assist law enforcement
agencies in their investigations of bombing incidents, and contribute to
further development of analytical models. Data acquired will include
blast over-pressure, fragment distribution, fragment mass, and sample
fragment trajectory.
The tests for this project were conceived using four
of the most common roadbed types in the United States and explosive
charges that varied in size from 50 pounds to 1,000 pounds and type from
C4 to ANFO (C-4 to represent the effect of plastic explosives and ANFO
for its common availability and use in terrorist devices). By repeating
several surfaces with different explosive weights and types, more data
is able to be gathered with fewer events.
The tests began in 1994 at DNA's White Sands Missile
Range high explosives test site in New Mexico. ATF personnel with
extensive post-blast experience were used to collect all data.
The execution of the tests required careful
measurement of ground zero for centering the explosive charge in the
instrumental area, calibration of numerous monitoring devices, timing of
the photographic and video recording devices, and placement of the
explosive charge.
For the first eight tests, all vehicle fragments
measuring larger than 2 by 3 inches were marked identified and each
fragment location surveyed. These tests used only two types of vehicles,
a Chevrolet Caprice 4-door sedan, and a Dodge B-300 series passenger
van. These vehicles were chosen to simulate two commonly available
vehicles and If their load carrying capacity.
During the course of each event, data acquisition was
accomplished through the Test Control Center at White Sands Missile
Range. The recorded data was then analyzed by a team of engineers for
accuracy.
Documentation of each event began with high speed
photography and video. After each test, a complete crate profile was
done by contract surveyors, and documented further with still
photography. Additional still photographs were taken of significant and
identifiable fragments. To date only one verification test has been
completed. Although the computer software is incomplete, it has become
clear that there are significant repeatable trends in large scale
vehicle bombs.
Conclusion
Although the government does not claim that the OKC
bombing suspects conducted any experiments with ANFO truck bombs prior to
the most powerful terrorist bombing in U.S. history, the ATF now admits
they conducted such testing in the months before the April 19, 1995 blast.
Regardless of the outcome of the case against Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols, the White House National Security Council under President Clinton
evidently had information in 1993 that an ANFO truck bomb was a serious
potential terrorist threat in the United States.
The NSC further concluded that federal law enforcement
needed tools to deal with the post blast investigation if such a bombing
would occur on U.S. soil. Their assessment was correct. What ever that
still classified NSC intelligence information was, it was compelling
enough to get everyone ready for the blast, even to the point of funding
an ATF exercise in blowing up vehicles full of ammonia nitrate and looking
at the level of damage such a bomb would cause.
Within months, the outcome of these experiments and the
resultant procedures were actually put to use.
The first appointed trial judge in the OKC case, Judge
Wayne Alley, was removed after it was learned that he was warned to stay
away from the Murrah Federal Building in the days before the bombing.
Not only were some government employees evidently warned
of a specific threat in advance, other government agents were apparently
preparing to investigate such a bombing in advance as well.
Regardless of the unusual coincidences involved in
Operation Dipole Might, and despite other disturbing issues of so-called
"government prior knowledge" in the OKC cases it is clear that at least
168 men, women and children had absolutely no idea what was going to
happen at 9:09 a.m. on Wednesday April 19, 1995. The government is not
talking. It is left to the families of the victims and other survivors to
understand why.
Count The Coincidences
1.) Although no ANFO truck bomb attacks have occurred on
U.S. soil in more than two decades, just a few months before the OKC
bombing, the federal government evidently felt a need for "investigative
tools and computer data" on such attacks and actually test fired a few
truck loads of ANFO to learn how the crime scenc looks afterwards.
2.) According to the indictment against McVeigh and
Nichols, the conspiracy to build, transport and function the Ryder Truck
bomb of April 19, 1995 took more than a year to hatch. Much of this
conspiracy took place in Arizona, according to the U.S. Attorney. As
McVeigh and Nichols were allegedly conspiring to create such a bomb, the
government now admits it was actually building, blowing up and
photographing ANFO truck bombs, just one state over, in New Mexico, during
this same period of time. The purpose of the activity was to insure a
smooth Investigation of a crime that had not occurred in more than 23
years, but would amazingly happen within 12 months of the project's
inception.
3.) Of the handful of federal ATF agents who worked on
Project Dipole Might, one Agent Harry Everhart just happened to be outside
the Alfred P. Murrah building on the morning of April 19, 1995, and not
only survived the lethal blast, but actually called in the bombing to his
superiors, correctly identifying it as an ANFO bomb. (Before you consider
this particular coincidence, also explain why virtually no other OKC BATF
employees were anywhere near their place of employment that morning, and
in fact, none were killed or seriously injured in a terrorist bombing the
government claims was directed towards them.
Headlines
1/31/07
Jimmy
Carter's Sin Against Israel, waking up Christians, telling it like it is. It is not 'misguided' it is
"apartheid"
1/31/07
Congress
Announces First Investigation into the Crimes of the Bush Administration, HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Oversight Hearing on: "Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks
and Balances and the Rule of Law?" The hearing will take place at 10:15 a.m., Wednesday, January 31, 2007,
Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
1/31/07
The People Surge
the Capitol, not tens of thousands as reported on mainstream news, there were over 500,000 people
wanting peace, not war. It comes down to this, are we a government for and by the people or not?! Enquiring
minds deserve to know. People cannot hide their heads in the sand much longer!
1/31/07
Sign the Petition to Support
the "Safe and Orderly Withdrawal Act", To Be Introduced by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA)
1/31/07
Can the Fed Prevent
Deflation? Does it want to?, It has been a few weeks since I've written on the subject of deflation,
and in the meantime Mish has had a couple of good articles (here and here) on deflation that have answered
just about every question anyone could ask on the subject. But after mulling all this over, I've got
another more fundamental question that I'm looking for an answer to: Does the Fed really want to prevent
deflation?
1/31/07
FLORIDA'S NEW GOVERNOR TO RECOMMEND PAPER-BASED
OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM FOR ENTIRE STATE!, According to Democratic US Congressman Wexler, New
Republican Gov. Crist to Send Touch-Screen/DRE's 'The Way of the Butterfly Ballot'
1/31/07
Sen Jim Webb Decimates Bush In 9 Minutes , We are now as a nation held hostage to the
predictable-and predicted-disarray that has followed the invasion of Iraq." Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) "A star
is born" Mark Shields, political pundit on Jim Lehrer News Hour assessing Jim Webb's Democratic response to
the S.O.T.U.
1/31/07
An Iron Curtain is Descending: And
Most Americans Don't Know, "Why are you traveling so often to Canada?" the tough US border guard
barked. I was on Amtrak, going from New York to Montreal, as I'd done dozen of times before over several
decades. This was my first experience (summer 2006) of the increasingly standard and intrusive "US Exit
Interviews" on trains crossing the border.
1/31/07
Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchip-ed Population, Hollywood director Russo
goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of
9/11 and the war on terror hoax, the Rockefeller's creation of women's lib, and the elite's ultimate plan
for world population reduction and a microchip-ed society
1/31/07
High-tech Army
rehab center opens, On Monday, a $50 million high-tech rehabilitation center opened that is designed to
serve the growing number of soldiers who return from war as amputees or with severe burns.
1/29/07
John Conyers Puts Presidential Abuse of Power Back 'On the Table', Speaker Nancy Pelosi
may have taken impeachment "off the table," but House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) is about to put
it back on the menu.
Conyers may have been blocked by a timid Pelosi from initiating impeachment hearings immediately into
President Bush's crimes against the Constitution, but he's taken the first step anyway, with the
announcement of plans to hold hearings into what is surely the President's gravest abuse of power.
1/29/07
Hating Bush Only Hurts Us, It's appropriate to dislike George W. Bush. It's reasonable
to find him pathetic. We're justified in being disgusted with him. But it only hurts us if we hate
him.
Hatred feels like power, as if it can annihilate those at whom it is directed. But hatred won't deter Bush
and what he represents. It's more likely to strengthen him because it gives him and his followers what
they're always looking for--something to oppose.
1/29/07
My Plan: Getting Smarter Faster About the Middle East, OK, what would YOU do about the
Middle East?
That's a question I try to avoid because to answer it's immodest. So, when pressed, I acknowledge up front
that I dwell in ignorance, and so do you.
Otherwise, answer me this: Why are we spending over $1 billion to build an embassy complex in Baghdad
rather than, say, $10 million or $100 million? I don't know the answer and neither do you.
That's ignorance, my friend.
1/29/07
Putting it on the Table: Kucinich Says Bush Risking Impeachment, "The degree to which
this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress
is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding." -
Dennis Kucinich
1/29/07
George W. Bush: Poster Boy for Impeachment, I know the Democratic leaders in Congress
have said that impeachment is "off the table", but that is one campaign promise that should not be kept.
Oversight of the Bush Administration is not enough.
How do you oversee a torture program? How do you oversee "extraordinary renditions" and secret prisons?
How do you oversee the destruction of the US Constitution? What is Congress going to do when Bush starts
bombing Iran--watch closely?
1/29/07
The court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada, Court
Martial Set for February 5 On June 22, 2006, US Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada stepped forward as the
first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the Iraq War and occupation. He faces court
martial and up to 6 years imprisonment for refusing to deploy and for speaking out against a war that he
believes is illegal.
1/29/07
War Resisters -- Support the
Troops Who Refuse to Fight, It takes courage to say that you will not fight -- especially if you are a
soldier. As more members of the US military step forward for peace, the peace movement must step forward to
support them.
1/29/07
Crowds on both
coasts protest Iraq war, WASHINGTON - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched
Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam
protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
1/29/07
The American Philosopher Inspects Our Way of Life, It would be easy enough just to make
a statement, our way of life is immoral. However in light of the discovery of the moral imperative of life,
I intend here to explain exactly why our way of life is immoral. But let me not just count the ways. /
1/27/07
State of the Union Address: Making Up Goals, "No. President Bush's State of the Union
Address was directed at Washington insiders and to the processes of political intrigue. Its was a wink, and
it was a nod. It was a warm embrace the likes of which King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie-Antoinette would
have recognized as quite Parisian."
1/27/07
Scientific Crimes Against Humanity,
When you are out in front, it is tough to get a fair hearing of your concerns because those behind are busy
talking among themselves. They are sure they know where they are going and what is ahead, because they talk
amongst each other and develop a consensus. Today, they are wrong. Listen up for a second. I work long
hours to write what I write.
It seems every day we read of yet another mountain of funding going toward the race to get in on the
biotech revolution's fantastic promises of profits, jobs, inventions, cures, wealth and panacea. Who is
fooling whom here? Utopia is a long way off, and few should doubt, given the current state of the world, it
lays less distant in the past, than it does in the future.
Science is driving this bus we are all on. And yet all scientists claim they are amoral. This is one of the
great fictions of the scientific community, that science is amoral. This great lie casts a pall of moral
immunity over the scientific of every genre. However, everything we fear most came to us from science. I am
in excellent scientific company with this assertion.
So get real.
This biotech thing is an obvious peril...
1/23/07
Global Dimming,
This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which
our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists
refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions. Tonight Horizon
examines for the first time the power of what scientists are calling Global Dimming.
1/23/07
Truth is Speaking"¦.Is Power Listening?, Deep crimson stains mottle the pages of
humanity's history. Untold numbers of souls who were skewered, decapitated, eviscerated, or obliterated in
anonymity scream out for recognition as one peruses humankind's memoirs. While our historical manuscript is
also generously dappled by the milk of human kindness, much of our narrative is dominated by tales of man's
savage cruelty to man.
1/23/07
MEA CULPA
MINIMUS, The senior defense department official who suggested that major corporations should stop doing
business with large law firms who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees without charge has apologized for his
remarks - but his apology has failed to satisfy some legal and human rights advocates.
1/19/07
As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran,
Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse, Is Bush pushing for a second war or a Second Coming?
1/19/07
Woolsey takes up
President Bush's Challenge on Iraq, Introduces H. R. 508 -- comprehensive alternative to escalation:
plan would bring all US troops home within 6-months
1/19/07
"McCain Lines Up N.Y. [Jewish] Money Men..., Nowhere could the lines tying together
money, the Jewish community and American electoral politics be clearer. . . Miriam McCain Lines Up N.Y.
Money Men, Raising Pressure on Rudy Giuliani
1/19/07
The risk of PBDEs in dust,New research confirms that people can take up brominated
flame retardants from the dust in their homes.
1/16/07
20 Ways the World
Could End, from Discover, which do you choose? Something to think about, or ....not!
1/15/07
The YouTube
Insurgency
1/15/07
The Slaves of Terror
1/15/07
SPIRITUAL DEATH: "ENLARGING ON MARTIN LUTHER KING'S
PROFOUND TRUTH THAT MILITARIZED AMERICA IS APPROACHING SPIRITUAL DEATH"
1/15/07
Rep Ron Paul - America's
Braveheart
1/15//07
Aaron Russo Announces Full Support Of
Ron Paul
1/15/07
Some Good News about Allen Heart/aka White Eagle Soaring
1/15/07
Storm leaves three dead and 280,000 without
power in Sweden
At least two people have died in as a result of hurricane winds that battered southern Sweden on Sunday.
Over 270,000 households faced power cuts while traffic on land and at sea was brought to a standstill.
1/14/07
Ice storm leaves
330,000 without power
1/14/07
A
Vet Answers Back
1/14/07
HUD "Section 8" housing: The revenge of the Trailer Trash?
1/14/07
Of Geese, Ganders and a Presidential Loon
1/14/07
Nuclear Armageddon? The Rapture Cult, Path of Death
1/14/07
Bush 'Aggressively' Expanding
Spying On US Citizens
1/14/07
US Dead In Iraq/Afghan Wars Said Now
Over 15,000
1/14/07
Enough Of
The Terrorism Canard
1/14/07
Is It Time To Rebel Against King George?
1/14/07
Pretext For The
North American Union
1/13/07
Man
fuel: Is it in you?
1/13/07
George W. Bush: A
Symptom of Disease, the perfect man for the job
1/13/07
Land of Enchantment and Impeachment...There is a decent chance that within the next
month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment
proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
1/13/07
Public Has Right To Know Secrets Revealed In Zyprexa Documents
1/13/07
housing Prices returning to 2002 levels
1/13/07
NATIONAL ID: TARGET THE STATE
HOUSES
1/10/07
Democrats Beef Police State With 9/11 Commission Bill
1/10/07
The Real
Agenda Of The Global Elite In Somalia
1/10/07
Bush hits new low
on eve of crucial speech " A poll in USA Today showed that approval for Mr Bush's handling of the war
has dropped to 26%, a record low. About 61% opposed Mr Bush's proposed 20,000 increase in the number of
troops."
1/9/07
1,000 PEOPLE SPELL OUT "IMPEACH!" IN
PELOSI'S DISTRICT
1/9/07
Bush Senior Early CIA Ties
Revealed
1/9/07
Essay
by Anwaar Hussain
1/8/07
Sickened Iraq war
veterans cite 'depleted uranium'
1/7/07
White
House visitor records closed one more strike against freedom of information for americans.
1/7/07
Judicial Watch Files Open Records Lawsuit Against
Chicago Police Department Over Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
1/7/07
Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Rent Law
1/7/07
"Working in the White House is like
working in the monkey house in a zoo when all the primates are loaded with uppers.
1/7/07
Defense Department Releases Two Videos of Flight 77
Crashing Into Pentagon
1/7/07
Lilly's Legal Battle Over Zyprexa Documents Continues
1/6/07
The Spirit
of Tom Paine
1/5/06
Central Banks
Tiptoeing Away From the Dollar
1/5/06
Fighters Scrambled For Bush Ranch TFR Violation --Pilot Busted Restricted Airspace Twice
Prompting Calls to NORAD
1/5/06
Big Surprise: Cheney Eulogizes Ford for Pardoning
Nixon
1/5/06
2007: Decisive Year for the Israeli-Neocon Attack Iran
Plan
1/5/06
Revealed: Rudy's '08
battle plans It is Giuliani's business interests with companies that clearly profited from the 9/11
attacks that should have him the most worried.
1/5/06
Robertson
Predicts Terror Attack On US With 'Mass Killing'
1/5/06
Robertson says God
told him of "mass killing" in US in 2007 - Perhaps the same god that George talks to?
1/5/06
Sacrifice translates into More Dead People
1/5/06
US military combat deaths in Iraq hit 3,004
1/5/06
Poll: US Troops Lose
Confidence in Bush
1/5/06
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte will resign to become deputy secretary of
state
1/5/06
Iraq Vets Come Home Physically,
Mentally Butchered
1/5/06
Saddam Hussein execution: A
sectarian lynching
1/5/06
FBI Reports Duct-Taping, 'Baptizing' at Guantnamo
1/5/06
Pentagon Plans No Action on FBI Report of Gitmo Abuse
1/5/06
Justice Dept. refuses
senator's document request --Leahy says may use subpoenas to get material
1/5/06
US Hypocrisy Reaches All-Time
High
1/5/06
Envoy: Mossad Tricked
Australia Into Believing Assassination Plot
1/5/06
Basque Separatists Say Surprised by Deadly ETA Bomb but Reuters ready to convict
1/5/06
Spanish Police
Arrest Five Suspected of Aiding Madrid Train Bombers
1/5/06
Israel seeks operational link
with US missile defense system
1/5/06
Electronic voting led
to errors, report says
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