Molon Labe! (27 page)

Shortly after McVeighs's arrest, FBIHQ was informed through highly discreet channels of the interior C-4 charges, which had shattered four reinforced concrete columns and caused the building's north face to collapse. The FBI were now in a quandry. They had locked themselves on McVeigh and the Patriot Movement as the perpetrators, but could not suddenly purport that he and Nichols had also placed sophisticated C-4 charges
inside
the building. They also could not float the theory that the Iraqis and McVeigh had colluded in the bombings, for that would raise embarrassing questions.

So, the FBI were forced to keep increasing the size of the ANFO truck bomb to "explain" the interior devastation. First, 2,000lbs, then 4,000, then 4,800, and finally
7,000
lbs. This desperate tactic was, however, replete with problems. Government officials quickly became alarmed at the instantaneous barrage of professional and military skepticism over the alleged ANFO bomb. Demolition experts around the world, including British experts on IRA bombings, bitterly scoffed at the truck bomb story (even though nitromethane was allegedly used instead of mere diesel fuel).

Two independent Pentagon experts concluded that the destruction was caused by five seperate bombs. In the spring of 1997, explosives experts at Eglin AFB's Wright Laboratory Armament Directorate released a 56 page report of their reproductive blast test. It said,
"It must be concluded that the damage at the Murrah Federal Building is not the result of the truck-bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as locally placed charges within the building itself..."
Even FEMA was forced to admit that 4,800lbs of ANFO could not have caused the crater (allegedly 30' in diameter, but which was quickly covered from public view due to its small size).

The explosive power of ANFO does not increase in proportion to its amount, since large quantities do not ignite efficiently even with precisely controlled triggers. In fact, a 7,000lb ANFO device built along the alleged model would scatter up to nearly half its prills without having detonated at all.

Retired US Air Force General Benton K. Partin, an engineer and weapons expert, assembled a devasting report. It thoroughly dismissed the possibility of an ANFO truck bomb having shattered four reinforced concrete pillars with only 10% of the blast pressure required to do so. The destruction of column B3, Partin explained, was the "smoking gun" of supplementing contact demolition charges placed inside the building.

In a panic, and against a formal request by concerned Americans and members of Congress, the USG had — for alleged "health hazards" and humanitarian concerns" — the Murray Building demolished (
i.e.
, blown up a third and final time) on 23 May, just four weeks after 19 April. The debris was trucked to a remote area and guarded until buried.

The impossible 7,000lb ANFO bomb

In
American Terrorist
(pp.214-220), McVeigh allegedly told the authors quite an amazing tale. He and Nichols supposedly drove to a public lake, mixed 108 bags of 50lb ammonium nitrate (5,400lbs total) with three 55 gal drums of liquid nitromethane (1,200lbs total), poured this into thirteen barrels (nine by funnel through bung holes), arranged the filled barrels weighing about 500lbs each, installed a dual-ignition system through the cab wall, wiped down the cab interior, washed up and changed clothes —
all in the time span of under
four
hours inside the confines of a 20' truck
.

Assuming a full four hours with nothing to do but mix and pour the components, the two men had to process 1,350lbs of ammonium nitrate with 41 gallons of liquid
every hour
. Or, 22½lbs with about three quarts
every minute
. Every minute nonstop, without interruption, for nearly 240 minutes.

Also, the required very thorough mixing of the ANFO should not be overlooked. Ammonium nitrate prills (1-2mm in diameter) have a coating to protect against moisture. Liquid fuel must be
very
evenly mixed to coat most of the prills and dissolve their external coating. Dry prills will not detonate easily, if at all. This mixing process is very tedious and time consuming. Professionals use motorized mixers. It's not something easily done by hand in the back of a 20' box truck under time pressure with witnesses just outside.

And yet McVeigh and Nichols supposedly accomplished all this in
less
than four hours (69% of the barrels to be filled by
funnel
), plus arrange the barrels, build the ignition system, clean up, and change clothes.

Try to fill a 55 gal barrel by funnel through the bung hole with sand sometime. It takes about 20 minutes. And that's nicely flowing sand, versus soggy, clumpy ANFO. Assuming sand, however, the funnel filling of 9 barrels would take 2.7 hours, leaving under78 minutes (
i.e.
, 1.3 hours) for mixing, arranging, building, cleaning, etc. — and, oh, filling the other 4 barrels.

Then, there is the matter of insufficient space within the truck. A 20' box truck would not have had the working room for the job. Go rent one sometime, cart in 108 50lb bags, three full 55 gal. drums, and 13 empty plastic 55 gal. drums. Imagine two men trying to mix and pour all of this within that very small space — much less within four hours. It truly defies belief.

An ex-rocket-scientist was asked if McVeigh's schedule were possible. He laughed, replying that even if such could have been accomplished within four hours (which was
"impossible"
), there were the deadly nitromethane fumes inside such a confined space.
"Without breathers and a fuel-compatible pump? No
way
! Nitromethane is
incredibly
toxic. In 30 minutes they'd have been incoherent; in an hour their faces would have slid off!"

Yet we are expected to believe that 165 gallons of nitromethane were
"poured...into the five-gallon plastic buckets,weighing out the measurements on
[a]
bathroom scale."
I suppose that we are also to believe that the deadly fuel was siphoned by sucking on a length of garden hose.

So, the "official" story of McVeigh and Nichols building this alleged bomb within 4 hours inside a 20' Ryder truck parked at a lake, on high alert for over an hour because of people fishing 25yds away is absurd fiction.

Why did McVeigh tell such a tale?

Regardless of McVeigh's level of bombing guilt versus any federal collusion as an informant, he may have been offered a cruel bargain. Keep his mouth shut about what happened, parrot the ridiculous story of building a 7,000lb ANFO bomb in the confines of a 20' box truck, and his family would not be harmed. Playing the "good soldier" would guarantee their safety. Also, McVeigh might have been promised that the lethal injection would be only a deep sedative, and that he would be revived later for plastic surgery and supervised freedom abroad. (Not that McVeigh would have been allowed to live in any case, but he may have been convinced otherwise.) McVeigh, already convicted to a death sentence with no chance of reversal, had nothing to gain but his family's continued safety. An intelligent man, he'd have agreed.

According to Clinton, the OKC bombing(s)
"broke the spell"
of the increasing anti-government sentiment and its "Republican Revolution" of November 1994. The growing inertia of conservative politics evaporated. Accordingly, Clinton signed his beloved
Anti-Terrorism Act
on 20 April 1996 (Adolf Hitler's 107th birthday), which created a 2,500 man Rapid Deployment Force under the Attorney General.

Only the Federal Government benefitted from the OKC bombings.

1
   "Seat of Government" was J. Edgar Hoover's magisterial term for Washington, D.C.

2
   Field Office, one of 56 FBI FOs across the USA.

3
   Bureau shorthand for
La Cosa Nostra
— i.e., the Mafia.

4
   Resident Agency, which is much smaller than a Field Office. There are 128 RAs in the USA.

2009
   

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Washington, D.C.                FBIHQ

January 2009

The Director finishes reading the Wyoming flyer and rubs his eyes. "My God, what a bunch of
nuts
! How did you get a copy of this, Bleth?"

"I salted enough libertarian chat rooms and websites, apparently. Since I haven't heard anything more from them, they may have figured out that I used an alias."