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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Pentagon Report confirms bombs inside building at Oklahoma
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>
>Secret Pentagon Report on Oklahoma City
> Bombing--Evidence of an Inside Job?
>
> by J. Orlin Grabbe
>
> U.S. government attempts to portray Timothy McVeigh as the
>"lone bomber" (with assistance from Terry Nichols) in the April 19,
>1995, bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City have
>completely collapsed with recent revelations of McVeigh's associations
>with individuals connected to the Aryan Republican Army,as well as with a
>BATF informant and an agent of German military intelligence.
>
> This has lead some to conclude that there has been a U.S.
>government (primarily BATF and FBI) cover-up motivated by the
>desire to destroy evidence of a "government sting gone bad," much as
>with the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City.
>
> The secret Pentagon report shows, however, that such a judgment may
> be too kind to the agencies concerned. The principal damage to the
>Alfred P. Murrah Building was brought about by explosives placed on
>five columns of the Murrah Building, according to the Pentagon report,
>and not by the ANFO bomb in the truck supposedly driven by McVeigh.
>Thus, until the individuals who placed the explosives on the
>columns of the Murrah Building are identified, any proposed
>explanation of how the bombing came about is woefully inadequate. The
> existence of demolition charges placed on some columns at the
>third-floor level of the Murrah Building is strongly suggestive of
>inside participation by at least some federal employees.
>
> The Pentagon commissioned nine explosive experts to write
>independent reports on the bombing, and adopted two of the nine reports
>as the "official" report. I spoke to both experts, but they declined to
>be interviewed, citing confidentiality agreements with the Pentagon.
>Sources familiar with the Pentagon report, however, have
>confirmed that the conclusions were similar in nature to those of a
>private report prepared by General Benton K. Partin, dated July 30,
>1995, except that the Pentagon report concludes there were demolition
>charges placed on five columns, not four as concluded by General Partin.
>
> Partin's report showed that the pattern of damage to the
>Murrah Building was inconsistent with the ANFO truck bomb as a point
>source for the explosion, and that the damage sustained by the
> columns could not possibly have come from this source.
>
> Explosive pressure drops off approximately with the cube of
>the distance. Double the distance, and you reduce the explosive pressure
>(pounds per square inch) to one-eighth its original value.
>
> If the 4800 pounds of ammonium nitrate in the Ryder truck bomb
>were in a compressed sphere and detonated from the center, it would have
>generated a blast wave with an initial pressure of about 500,000 pounds
>per square inch. By the time the nearest Murrah Building column was
>reached, that pressure would have fallen to about 375 pounds per square
>inch.
>
> The rows of columns in the Murrah building can be labeled from front
> to back as rows A, B, and C. The rows are about 35 feet apart. The
>columns in each row can be labeled from left to right (as seen by an
>individual facing the front of the building) as numbers 1 through 11. The
>third column in the first row would thus be labeled "A3". The columns
>are 20 feet apart within each row.
>
> The concrete in the columns had a compressible yield strength of at
>least (and probably higher than) 3500 pounds per square inch. Since this
>value is almost ten times the strength of the blast wave hitting the
>columns from the truck bomb, the blast wave is insufficient to
>produce a wave of deformation in the concrete (and thus to turn it
>back into its sand, gravel, and clay components).
>
> However, a high detonation velocity contact explosive attached to a
>column would have generated pressure of 1 to 1.5 million pounds per
>square inch-- about 300 times the yield strength of the concrete, and
> thus would have pulverized it into sand until the blast wave front had
>dropped below the yield strength of the concrete. Left behind would be a
>smooth granular surface with protruding steel reinforcement rods (which
> have a much higher yield strength).
>
> General Partin's report shows strong evidence of such
>contact explosive charges placed on columns B3, A3, A5, and A7. While the
>truck bomb itself was insufficient to destroy columns, it was
>responsible for ripping out some floors at the second and third
>
>floor levels, Partin concluded.
>
> The notion of a government-sting gone awry would at best suggest
>the idea that BATF or FBI agents planned to arrest McVeigh in a dramatic
>flourish of publicity when he pulled up in front of the Murrah Building
>in his rented Ryder truck containing the ANFO bomb. But this story
> becomes faintly ridiculous when you consider that demolition
>charges were placed on five Murrah Building columns well before
>McVeigh's arrival. If there was a government sting in operation,
>then someone was using their knowledge of the sting as cover for
>the actual bombing. Either way, it suggests an inside job.
>
> Finally, McVeigh was not arrested prior to the bombing. Which leads
>one to ask, What government sting? We are basically left with
>evidence of government complicity and government cover-up, but with
>no evidence of a government sting. Did some government agency take
>advantage of the general expectation that something would happen that
>day, and, for its own reasons, ensure these fears were realized?
>
>
> Prior Knowledge of the Explosion
>
> There are several sources of evidence of a prior expectation
>of a bombing to take place on April 19, 1995.
>
> Executed on the day of the Oklahoma bombing was Richard
>Wayne Snell for murder of a black Arkansas trooper. Snell had been
>involved in a plot to blow up the Murrah Building in 1983. And,
>according to Alan Ables, an Arkansas prison official quoted by the Denver
>Post, "Snell repeatedly said that there would be a bombing or
>explosion the day of his death." The explosion took place at the
>Murrah Building, the previous focus of Snell's attention.
>
> Snell's information would appear to have come from Robert Millar,
>who was in attendance as Snell's spiritual advisor. Millar was the
>founder of Elohim City, a religious commune in Oklahoma near the
>border with Arkansas. Timothy McVeigh had made numerous visits to
>Elohim City in the weeks before the bombing (see, for example, William
>F. Jasper, "More Pieces to the OKC Puzzle," The New American, June 24,
>1996).
>
> A BATF informant named Carol Howe wrote her BATF case officer in
>Tulsa that the Elohim City group, or its operational arm the "Aryan
>Republican Army", was planning to blow up a building with a possible
>date of April 19, 1995 (McCurtain Daily Gazette, February 11, 1997).
> Howe said there were three possible targets, two in Tulsa, and one
>in Oklahoma City.
>
> (Members of the Aryan Republican Army are currently charged with
>bank robberies in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This includes Peter Langan, on
>trial in Columbus, Ohio, and Michael Brescia, indicted in
>Philadelphia. Witnesses have identified Brescia as "John Doe II",
>originally sought by the FBI in the Oklahoma City bombing.)
>
> The BATF says the warnings were too vague to prompt any actions.
>Too vague, apparently, to warn security guards at the Murrah
>Building, who overlooked all the activity involved in placing demolition
>explosives on the building columns.
>
> But not too vague not to warn BATF employees to stay home for the day.
> No BATF employee was among the 168 killed in the bombing.
>
>February 11, 1997
>Web Page: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
>
>
>
>
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