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Judicial Watch Leads Effort to Link Iraq to Oklahoma City Bombing Once again, JW was ahead of the curve. In the May 2002 issue of the The JW Verdict, Judicial Watch clearly outlined all of the evidence it had uncovered linking agents of Iraq to Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers. Now, seven months later, Members of Congress are finally paying attention. In recent weeks Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana have publicly stated they plan to doggedly pursue the Iraqi Oklahoma City connection. "I think there ought to be Senators as well as House members looking at this," said Congressman Burton in an interview with the Indianapolis Star. "We're checking everything out." The evidence compiled by Judicial Watch suggests there is much to check. First of all, according to a complaint filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of 14 victims of the Oklahoma City attack, "Prior to the Gulf War, Iraq had developed a covert network in the United States to acquire materials for weapons of mass destruction. After the Gulf War, Iraq converted that network into organized terrorist cells. Those covert Iraqi procurement and terrorist activities directly involved Oklahoma City, OK." Secondly, Judicial Watch has uncovered a connection between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Shortly after attacking the WTC, Youssef established himself in the Philippines for the purpose of orchestrating a series of terrorist attacks against the United States. He began to recruit potential terrorists from Southwest College in Cebu City. Allegedly among them was Nichols. Nichols’ passport records show he was indeed in the Philippines at the same time as Youssef. In fact, Philippine intelligence believed Nichols was a Pakistani, Arab or U.S. national. McVeigh, too, was known to be an Iraqi sympathasizer. According to the US News and World Report, "a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent." McVeigh also authored an essay in which he defended Iraq's right to "stockpile chemical or biological weapons." Finally, 22 sworn affidavits from Oklahoma residents identify as many as eight Middle Eastern men, including Iraqi soldiers, who witnesses claim collaborated with McVeigh and Nichols. One man, Iraqi soldier Hussain Al Hussaini, was seen by multiple witnesses riding in the Ryder truck with McVeigh the morning of the bombing. The FBI initially put out an all-points bulletin after the attack in search of Middle Eastern male suspects, but inexplicably dropped their pursuit once McVeigh was arrested, claiming that all of the witnesses must have been confused. "The Clinton Administration failed to tell the truth regarding the Oklahoma City bombing and instead used the incident to attack conservatives," said JW Chairman Larry Klayman. "This did a tremendous disservice to those men, women and children who were murdered on April 19, 1995 and their families. Once again it's up to Judicial Watch to bring the truth to the American people and to earn justice."
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