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Summary: Others Unknown and John Doe 2
Review: The Federal government has spent millions of dollars investigating and prosecuting Martha Stewart, yet, after 9 years, we still don't know the identity of others seen with Timothy McVeigh on the morning of April 19, 1995 when 168 of our citizens were killed. Jayna's quest to find "others unknown" and the story behind John Doe 2 will chill your blood, then make it boil.
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Summary: Conspiracy Rubbish
Review: The talk that McVeigh had a Middle East connection and that paired with the others unknown involved in the bombing have kept conspiracy stories alive of another possible attack. The evidence does not support any Middle East Connection. An examination of McVeigh's personality with the evidence about his blatant racism would not lead to such conclusions about cooperation with Middle Eastern folks, especially after the Iraqi kills he made while in the first Gulf War. While romantic as this notion may be, McVeigh was too much of a loner to have received help from anyone other than close friends or associates. He was too paranoid that the federal government was out to get him that he would have reasoned that any olive skin colored individual would have been an undercover federal agent. The possibility exists that there may be others, in addition to Fourier and Nicholas, but it is very unlikely this person or persons were anything other than someone McVeigh might have met at a militia gathering or a gun show. Even then, this proposition is dubious since he did not fit in well with militia agendas (militias are reactive, McVeigh was proactive) and McVeigh only had connections in the Michigan Militia for a brief time. McVeigh brought the fight to the federal governments Okalahoma City office building militias do not want this sort of attention. Common sense alone and the evidence presented do not support the claim of a Middle East connection. This line of reasoning where a Middle East connection was involved is exactly the type of paranoid anti-government thinking that brought McVeigh to do what he did.
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Summary: Middle East terrorists set up "lily whites" to take the fall
Review: The Third Terrorist chilled me to the bone. It exposes the changing face of Al-Qaeda and the enemy living within our borders. The evidence in this book is simply irrefutable - a group of Iraqi soldiers masterminded the brutal slaughter of innocents in America's heartland. And who took the fall? Well, as investigative journalist Jayna Davis points out through a compelling and meticulously documented body of evidence, McVeigh and Nichols were "lily white" recruits who easily slipped below the law enforcement radar screen. Hence, the Congressional Task Force prior warning (March 3, 1995) that "non-Muslims" were going to bomb an United States federal building on behalf of "Iran-sponsored" Islamic extremists could not stop the bomb. It's obvious to me that federal law enforcement was powerless to isolate and track the hand-picked front men who were tasked with delivering the weapon of mass destruction to the Alfred P. Murrah Building! If this strange alliance between seemingly polar-opposite terrorist groups representes the new modus operandi for Al-Qaeda, then how is our FBI going to penetrate cells here on our soil like the one reporter Jayna Davis stumbled upon in 1995? Attorney General John Ashcroft recently warned our nation that "lily white" recruits include people of all ethnicities and nationalities who are disaffected citizens bent on striking out against our government. McVeigh and Nichols are the textbook case. Will the Middle Eastern suspects identified in The Third Terrorist, who Davis suggests had foreknowledge of the 9-11 plot, strike again? Why not arrest these men and find out what they know about the next plan of attack? Arrest then NOW before we witness the next 4-19 or 9-11? I, for one, believe it took a hell of a lot of guts to expose this dangerous and emerging phenomenon that has brought the war on terror to U.S. shores.
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Summary: Intriguing evidence about the "others unknown"
Review: The Third Terrorist is an interesting work of investigative journalism. The book is the end result of several years of relentless investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing by Jayna Davis, a former Oklahoma City reporter. While most Americans identify Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the Oklahoma City bombing, few realize that the original indictment implicates "others unknown" who conspired with McVeigh and Nichols to blow up the Murrah Federal Building. Davis's book theorizes that the "others unknown" were in fact Middle Eastern terrorists. This theory may seem bizarre to many, but Davis has a wealth of intriguing and compelling evidence that indicates a potential Middle Eastern role in the bombing. Indeed, Davis has painstakingly collected sworn affidavits from witnesses who consistently identify a third Middle Eastern accomplice to the bombing. Davis has also tracked down several interesting leads that the FBI either dropped or ignored that further implicate Middle Eastern terrorists. While the book is intriguing, there are several serious problems with it. First, and most importantly, Davis is never able to coherently and definitively tie Middle Eastern terror networks to the bombing. At times, her evidence seems almost contradictory, indicating Iraqi involvement (her primary theory), Iranian involvement, and Palestinian involvement all at the same time. There is a lot of evidence presented but no grand theory that connects it all. Second, the book is not very well written. Her writing style is often overly dramatic and wordy. Moreover, the book is poorly organized and often repetitive. This undermines the persuasiveness of her writing. Third, some of her arguments seem somewhat sloppy and misguided. She consistently conflates the terms "Middle Eastern" and "Islamic," allowing her to make convenient connections between Middle Eastern secular motives and extremist Islamic motives. Overall, I found the book to be intriguing. While it did not convince me that Iraqi intelligence agents were the primary agents behind the bombing, it did convince me that certain aspects of the bombing need to be re-examined in light of her evidence. Despite its shortcomings, the book reads relatively quickly and is accessible to general readers with only a passing knowledge about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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Summary: Not conclusive, but enough to warrant a new investigation.
Review: This book does establish al-Husseini in Oklahoma, but that much was known already from newspaper accounts of the possible Iraqi connection, so there's really nothing new there. As another review has pointed out, the "smoking gun" here would be to establish al-Husseini at the scene when the truck was rented. The book does NOT do that. Still, the mere presence of a know Iraqi agent in Oklahoma City before and during the bombing is more than enough to warrant some kind of public investigation. That is the value of this book, as a call to arms to look into this, not as an investigation itself. This is, after all, the kind of thing that no journalist can really have the power or access to investigate on their own. This kind of matter can only properly be done by law enforcement and the courts.
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Summary: The Truth Will Surface
Review: This book is a compelling read. I couldn't put it down. Jayna Davis is a brave woman who proves what so many of us suspected on April 19, 1995... an Iraqi involvement. I am left with many, many questions. Questions Ms. Davis can't answer, but members of our Government should answer. Every American should read this book as soon as possible and then we should all start asking why? Why was it covered up? What else has been covered up?
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Summary: Compelling Book
Review: This compelling book has drawn me in and enveloped me like a ring of smoke. Jayna Davis's "The Third Terrorist" is the most compelling and intriguing nonfiction book I've ever read. Her precise accounts and explanations of the how she investigated the OKC bombing for over eight years is outstanding. When reading her interviews with witnesses and information she collects on the suspects, there is little doubt left in your mind that she is not being honest or accurate. She's an amazing writer and investigative reporter. I've read more than three quarters of the book, and can't wait to read the last few chapters to see the final outcome of her dogged reporting and the ultimate whereabouts of the suspects she named. Great book, and definitely a MUST read.
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Summary: Unbelievable Documentation
Review: This groomed and well-planned masterpiece is not only great entertainment, but the weaving of a plethora of hard facts demonstrates the unconscionable illustration that if evidence is presented to the FBI which contradicts it's operating assumption-"the lone bomber" theory of two right-wing extremists acting alone (McVeigh later claimed he did the bombing all by himself) then they just simply ignore, obtuscate and broad-brush anyone who shows anything to the contrary. This book should be used to indict the practices, policies and procedures of the intransigent bureaucrats and higher ups in the FBI.
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Summary: If Clinton was Bush, we'd have invaded Iraq in 1996.
Review: This is one spell-binding book. Ms. Davis has spent close to a decade compiling a mountain of evidence, and it's totally believable. But I must warn you, it will infuriate you. Once again the Clinton/Reno legacy shows its true colors. I had already read Stephen Jones' "Others Unknown", and Abrose Evans-Pritchard's "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" prior to reading "The Third Terrorists". Both of those other books covered the OKC Bombing in some depth and were both believable, but neither compared with the overwhelmingly convincing picture of Middle Eastern complicity that this book will leave you with.
Clinton and Reno had the FBI drop the Middle Eastern connection, but they can't erase our memories. I remember quite clearly, in those first hours after the blast, when the APB went out for John Doe#2 and the pickup he was driving. And I also remember quite clearly how that fact dropped off the radar screen. What Ms. Davis does is put that and a thousand other details in clear perspective, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that (a) There was an Iraqi(s) with McVeigh in the days ahead and at the time of the blast, and (b) there are links from these people to the 9-11 crowd, and (c) good Ol' Clinton did it to us again.
This is a must read for all Americans, because it blows a hole a mile wide in the mantra of the left when they say, "well yeah, we agree with the war in Afghanistan (actually that's a lie, also), but Iraq wasn't bothering anybody, blah blah blah."
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Summary: 168 Lives!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This was an outstanding book written by Jayna Davis who I have contacted once by e-mail. I never believed McVeigh and Nichols were the masterminds. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno let many terrorists who took 168 lives, escape justice. If the government would have captured each and every terrorist responsible for, at the time, the largest terrorist attack on American soil, the Twin Towers would probably be still standing today.
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