20 years later:
All eyes awaken to U.S. blueprint for terror, OKC bombing investigator warns Islamic sleeper cells in America
ready to activate, by Leo Hohmann, 12/27/15, WND
Jayna Davis put her
journalistic career on the line 20 years ago to prove that a third terrorist,
the so-called John Doe No. 2, was a Middle Eastern man who was seen in the
Ryder truck with Timothy McVeigh.
McVeigh detonated the
truck, blowing up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19,
1995. It was the largest act of terrorism on U.S. soil prior to the Sept. 11,
2001 attacks. It killed 168 Americans and wounded 680, and Davis sees stark
parallels between that attack and the one earlier this month in San Bernardino.
Both included native-born men with clean images, a “useful idiot” and a shadowy
Middle Easterner.
The Middle Eastern man
in Oklahoma, she contends, was Hussain al-Hussaini, a former Iraqi soldier who
came to the United States as a refugee after the first Gulf War. Hussaini was
one of about 6,000 Iraqi soldiers who were reclassified as refugees, poorly
vetted and allowed into the United States under President Bill Clinton’s watch.
According to Davis’ research, Hussaini was seen by several witnesses with
McVeigh in the days leading up to the bombing, and one witness saw him get out
of the Ryder truck with McVeigh before it blew up.
Davis was a dogged TV
reporter back then for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City. She accumulated vast
amounts of evidence tying Hussaini to the crime and presented it the FBI. But
the boys at the bureau weren’t interested. They had their case of “homegrown
domestic terror” against two native-born Americans, Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols, and they refused to consider that the case may have involved an
element of international terror. McVeigh, a veteran of the first Gulf War,
would get a lethal injection in 2001 while Nichols received life behind bars.
Hussaini drifted for
years, in and out of mental institutions, and finally landed in jail for
assaulting another man with a broken beer bottle.
In 2005 Nichols admitted
in a jailhouse interview with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., that the theory
put forth by Davis in her book, “The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the
Oklahoma City Bombing,” was accurate and that
other people were involved in the attack. But Nichols refused to provide names
citing fears that it could endanger his family. Her book became a New
York Times-bestseller in 2005 but the FBI never took note.
OKC a ‘blueprint’ for
future attacks
Davis says the FBI still
hasn’t learned the pivotal lesson in the way it investigates terrorist attacks
on U.S. soil. And those failures were on full display in the recent San
Bernardino attack.
“What I found in 1995
was basically a blueprint for terrorist attacks today. What I found as a
journalist, it’s basically what is happening today,” she said. “I see striking
parallels between 1995 and what is happening today.”
If Davis has cracked the
code, what does it reveal? She believes the government is lying about the
nature of the attacks. The San Bernardino shooters were not merely
“self-radicalized” or “inspired” by a foreign terrorist organization.
Rather, she believes
they were part of a larger network of sleeper cells operating within the United
States. This network has been in place at least since the early 1990s following
the first President George Bush’s Gulf War. It was after that war that the U.S.
started bringing in large contingents of Islamic “refugees,” from places like
Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Uzbekistan.
But there are also
American citizens who are recruited to deflect attention from the web of
international Islamic terror. “They are starting to
use what are called ‘lily whites,’” Davis said. These are men or women who
would not naturally draw the attention of law enforcement.
“Our Pakistani
terrorist, Mr. Syed Farook, even though his ethnicity was Pakistani, he still
was a U.S. born, full American citizen. He’s educated and gainfully employed,
had a new baby and was starting a family,” she said. “He wasn’t doing anything
to draw attention.”
That is potentially more
dangerous, more sinister than a “lone wolf” who just wants to kill for the
notoriety or fame it will offer.
‘Just a normal guy’
Davis compares Farook to
McVeigh, the former U.S. Army infantryman who won accolades for bravery in Iraq
but felt jilted when his efforts to join U.S. special operations were spurned.
Farook also went out of
his way to blend in. He didn’t broadcast his intentions on social media or
boast to a friend. His co-workers all described him as polite and affable,
showing no signs of having ill intent against anyone. He was just a “normal
guy,” they said.
“The scariest part of it
is, these people did nothing deliberately to draw attention to themselves, they
used aliases, they destroyed hard drives and cellphones,” Davis said. They also
had their “useful idiot” in Enrique Marquez, a friend and neighbor who bought
the two assault refiles about two years prior to the attack. If Farook and his
wife, Tashfeen Malik, had truly been “self-radicalized” as the FBI insists,
they would have left a trail on social media.
“Their egos, they’ve got
to be known, they’ve got to be noticed, those are the ones that law enforcement
really don’t’ have a problem recognizing,” Davis said. “But these two were not
like that.”
Sleeper cells inside the
United States
But there is a more
dangerous threat. And it’s much more subtle and hard to detect. “I believe
there are sleeper agents here in the United States of America, I believe these
terrorists have tactical support. I don’t believe they just got
self-radicalized online,” Davis told WND. “They went dark, they went to
encrypted communications. And it’s been weeks now and the FBI can’t crack it.”
Davis says the hallmark
traits of a self-radicalized terrorist is they are seeking notoriety and they
don’t cover their tracks. “They would want the
credit for everything they did,” she said. “But these guys are spooky and it’s
the way we are going to be struck in the homeland, and there is a major
infrastructure in place in major cities across the U.S.”
Enter Enrique Marquez,
the 24-year-old useful idiot who dabbled in Islam and befriended Farook years
ago when they were still too young to buy weapons or practice using them. The New York Times reported that Marquez would get loose lipped after a few
drinks at a local bar, where he worked cleaning toilets and checking IDs. He
talked a lot about sleeper cells getting ready to rise up in America.
“He would say stuff
like: ‘There’s so much going on. There’s so many sleeper cells, so many people
just waiting. When it happens, it’s going to be big. Watch,’ ” Nick Rodriguez,
a frequent bar patron who had known Marquez on and off for the past two years,
told the Times. “We took it as a joke. When you look at the kid and talk to
him, no one would take him seriously about that.”
Now, everyone is taking
Marquez serious. Even the FBI, which arrested him last week in connection with
the San Bernardino shooting. Whatever information he may have provided about
Farook has thus far been kept secret.
“There is one clue that
the FBI has not explained,” Davis says. “Why do you cover your tracks if your
only goal is martyrdom? Unless you are part of something larger, unless you
have already sworn allegiance to a wider network.”
So, while there has been
endless media attention in recent weeks about Syrian refugees coming to America
and whether they can be properly vetted, Davis believes that’s a distraction.
More than a million
Islamic refugees and asylum seekers have already arrived in the U.S. since
1990, straight from jihadist cesspools in the Middle East and Africa.
“God forbid if it
becomes the headline of the month, another attack, because we do have a sleeper
network here in the United States of America. And it’s been building since the
1990s,” Davis said. “Oklahoma City was the nerve center. My intelligence
sources in the U.S. government called it Little Syria. There’s a reason why
(terrorism investigator) Steve Emerson began his investigation right here in
OKC. This is what we are not acknowledging. We have to demand more from our law
enforcement.”
Another parallel between
the Oklahoma City attack and San Bernardino was that both incidents produced
multiple eyewitnesses of additional terrorists. A "third shooter" was
seen jumping out of the SUV in San Bernardino and police even conducted a house-to-house
search in the area, only to come back later and say there never was a third
shooter.
The FBI also has ample
evidence to suspect that Farook and Malik were part of a wider network.
"Number one they
were low profile. They thought of themselves as jihadists and they were loyal
to ISIS in Syria," Davis said. "The FBI said she was posting online
right after the attack. Why would she hide her face, why would she use an alias
in her communications, why the encrypted messages and the attempt at a getaway?
They had someone else buy their rifles …If they didn't want to be noticed it's
because they wanted to continue their terrorist rampage elsewhere."
Marquez and Farook
reportedly hatched another terror plot more than a year earlier but they got
cold feet and scuttled their plans, ostensibly because there had been an arrest
of several other terrorists in the region charged with providing material
support to overseas terrorists.
Obama describes Farook,
Malik as 'self-radicalized'
Three days after the
California attack, Obama took to the podium in a prime-time, televised address.
He was careful to portray the tragedy as part of a plot by two
"self-radicalized" domestic terrorists who acted without direction
from any wider network or overseas terrorist organization. "It was just
inspired (by overseas terrorists) not directed," Davis said.
ISIS connection to San
Bernardino ignored by media
Davis is now revisiting
what she discovered more than two decades ago in Oklahoma City. "We have a
direct connection of the hierarchy of the ISIS terror network" she said.
WND put a face on that
network, she said, when it reported that a former Somali refugee turned American citizen and then
ISIS recruiter was mentioned by the FBI as having had communications with
Farook prior to the San Bernardino attack. His name was Mohamed Hassan, who
lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended local schools and left the country in
2008 during his senior year of high school to join a terrorist network in
Somalia.
Strangely, no other
major media outlets picked up the story about Hassan, other than Fox News,
which failed to report that he had come to the U.S. as a refugee.
Hassan also played a key
role in "inspiring" the attack by two jihadists on Garland, Texas, at
a draw Muhammad cartoon contest in May. He had tweeted 10 days before the
Garland attacks that the "brothers in Paris" were to be congratulated
for their attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office and now the
"brothers in the U.S." needed to step up and carry out their own
attack. He then followed that tweet with another offering the link to the
Garland, Texas, event hosted by Pamela Geller.
But after his name
surfaced again in the San Bernardino attack, Hassan mysteriously turned himself
in to Somali authorities, claiming his innocence.
"Look at the way
the FBI is backtracking as Hassan turned himself in and said he didn't do
it," Davis said. Like Hassan, the Iraqi soldier Hussein al-Hussaini had
also entered the U.S. as a refugee.
As Congress and the
nation's governors debate whether 10,000 Syrian refugees should be allowed into
the country, it was reported last week that 100,000 Syrians had already entered
the U.S. on green cards since 2012.
A similar number of
Somali Muslims have entered the U.S. since 1990 and another 120,000 have come
from Iraq. Thousands of others have come from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burma. "Why are we worried about the 10,000
and not the hundreds of thousands who are already here?" Davis said.
'Vetting' problems under
Clinton presidency
Eight Iraqi soldiers
arrived in Boston in 1994, placed there by the International Rescue Committee,
one of nine private agencies that contract with the federal government to
resettle foreign refugees into more than 180 U.S. cities and towns. These eight
men, one of whom was Hussaini, were part of a broader group of 6,000 Iraqi
soldiers who came to the U.S. during that same time frame. A total of another
roughly 80,000 came from Iraq between 2001 and 2007.
As for the 6,000, they
were mainly enemy combatants who took up arms against U.S. soldiers during the
first Gulf War. "The only way we
could resettle them was to reclassify from ex-enemy combatant to refugee and
claiming if they go back home Saddam's going to kill them," Davis said.
"We took them at their word because we couldn't check their backgrounds
with Saddam in power. But the translators kept saying they believed a lot of
these guys were lying and they were trying to infiltrate through our refugee
program."
President Bill Clinton
inherited the problem from President George H.W Bush. "(Former CIA
Director) Jim Woolsey said at the time that the U.S. had no databases to vet
these people we had to take them at their word," Davis said. "And as
it turned out one of them bombed an American federal building in Oklahoma City.
They teamed up with a native born man, Timothy McVeigh. It's tragic but
true." Today's Syrian refugees present the same problem as the Iraqis in
the 1990s.
But because of political
correctness, the Syrians will be coming, 10,000 this year and "many
more," according to the U.S. State Department, in fiscal 2017. "It's
the same thing, we have nothing, no data, to compare and cross check,"
Davis said. "I'm not a racist I'm saying I believe in history and evidence
and can prove it in a court of law."
There are other
parallels as well between Oklahoma City and San Bernardino. Farook went abroad
to find a jihadist wife, Malik, who he met online and then claimed in Saudi
Arabia. Husseini did the same thing, picking up a "mail order bride,"
Davis said.
Farook, with his U.S.
passport, drew no attention when he traveled to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in
the Middle East, where many believe he picked up valuable terrorist training.
"He went to the
Middle East, he got trained, so he came back, but he had a passport, there's no
red flags for that," Davis said.
She said the FBI is not
trained to look for the proper red flags. "I don't care if he is of
Middle-Eastern descent, if he's Asian, or if he's Caucasian, the bottom line is
what's between his ears? What's his ideology? Do I hate the U.S. government,
its foreign policy? Do I act on that, and then try to cover it up, to protect
the U.S. sleeper cell network, which has already been in place since at least
the early 1990s? That's what's coming, and that's what' going to instill fear
in the hearts of the American public. And that's what's going to bring us
down."
Davis said she lays the
blame squarely at the foot of the U.S. government because authorities have had
this template since the mid-1990s. "They deny it exists. They know it
exists, but they deny it. That's why you're hearing the words 'self-radicalized,'
that's why you're hear the words 'inspired by' ISIS but not 'directed by.'
"You'll never hear
that there's a network of sleeper-cells organized, trained and ready to rise up
in this country," she continued. "You will never hear about a sleeper
cell, or terrorist cell. The American people, because they're not educated
enough and because they're busy trying to make a living, are never going to
understand. The minute you hear "inspired" you think, 'OK, this is
not an organized attack.' There's no way the FBI is leaking that to the New
York Times."
Davis said the FBI will
never "under any circumstances" disclose to the American people that
there is a jihadist sleeper structure within the U.S. and that these cells can
be activated at any time. "And the FBI will not see them coming until
people die," she said. "That's what I see coming."
CAIR puts fear into
hearts of Americans
After the 9/11 attacks,
the newly formed Department of Homeland Security came out with an ad campaign
that encouraged the public to call in tips about strange activity. They called
it "See something, say something."
But that policy has been
successfully undermined by groups like the Council on American-Islamic
Relations or CAIR, which threatens to sue over any speech it considered to be
"anti-Muslim."
CAIR and its affiliated
Muslim Brotherhood organizations have succeeded in creating a climate in which
people are more afraid of being branded an "Islamophobe" than they
are of the terrorists.
This was never more
clear than in the case of Farook. Construction workers in his neighborhood
noticed suspicious activity for weeks, with Middle Eastern men coming and
going, packages being delivered an strange noises from the garage. But they
said they decided not to report the suspicious activity for fear of being
called racists.
"CAIR shows up, and
they let everybody know if you say anything, if you say radical Islam, you're
going to get sued," Davis said.
And CAIR's allies sit at
the pinnacle of power. Obama's own attorney general, Loretta Lynch, warned
after San Bernardino that she would not hesitate to prosecute any American who
spoke critically of Muslims in a way that could be seen as inciting violence.
But what happens to
criminal refugees like Hussein al-Husseini? He has a violent crime on his
record for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He slashed a man's face
with a beer bottle. But rather than be deported, Hussaini was able to stall his
trial for four-and-a-half years by checking in and out of mental hospitals. He
reportedly confessed to the crime, but that didn't hurt him.
"He was going to
have to go to trial, finally they had a hearing three months ago on his
confession, and the judge through it out because he said this poor pitiful
refugee couldn't understand English. I interviewed him and he understood
English perfectly, he was fluent," Davis said. "But they threw it
out. They were able to neutralize the charge and he did not go to a state
penitentiary, and was never deported. So when he gets out in 11 months he's
going to hurt someone else."
There were 6,000 Iraqi
prisoners of war who came to the U.S. around the same time and the evidence
suggests one of them, Husseini, "was complicit in the Oklahoma City
bombing and took down a nine-story federal building and killed 168
people," Davis said.
Now two more terrorists
have struck in San Bernardino, with a third accomplice, Marquez, implicated.
Evidences suggests the killers tried to cover their tracks, which flies in the
face of the "lone wolf who got self-radicalized" theory. But, according to the
FBI and President Obama, there are no Middle Eastern terrorist networks inside
the United States. They do not exist.
The 'poster girl' for PC
police
And if any journalist or
FBI agent tries to say otherwise, no matter the evidence they may uncover, they
will be blackballed and likely sued. That's what happened to Davis. She won the
suit, however, as Husseini's claims of libel against her were dismissed.
"I'm the poster
girl for what happens with political correctness. Give up your profession. I
was vindicated but to this day I'm quote 'the racist reporter who went after
the Middle Eastern guy,' and dammit I was right," Davis said.
"The danger is,
they are not going to take you seriously, and pray you don't get sued,"
she added. "Look what happened with the little Alarm Clock Boy who was
apprehended for what appeared to be a bomb. It's working. I have got to give
them credit. They have won. We do not have a front line of defense. The DHS and
FBI will not protect this country when it is threatened by international
terrorist groups, and they are living among us. So, as long as we don’t' say
it, we don't speak it, the terrorists win."
So the terrorist
networks will continue to go by their playbook, which has proven successful
beyond their wildest dreams, she said. "Cover your tracks, use the useful
idiot. Farook – he just wanted to belong. Tim McVeigh was under the control of
the Iraqi network. Someone was controlling Farook and Malik. How do we know
that? Because they covered their tracks so no one would find them afterwards.
They had skills, they had training, they knew how to communicate in secret,
they knew how to use aliases online, and how to control and remain unseen. They
didn’t' draw attention to themselves, they were trained, they were disciplined.
That's the way McVeigh was. Somehow they would team up with Middle Eastern
terrorists, who would have thought?"
The Oklahoma City
beheader, an African-American Muslim convert named Alton Nolen who decapitated
a female co-worker, was also dubbed "self-radicalized." His act of
terror was classified as "work place violence."
"He was your
classic self-radicalizer, but I don't believe it," Davis said. "He
attended the local mosque. Everything. It's like they're taking it from the OKC
playbook. Use of lily whites. Terrorists living in our midst, they have an
organized terrorist infrastructure they can activate anytime they want.
Everyone is screaming about our borders and Syrian refugees and I get that, but
they're already here."
"You're going to
see the same talking points, if they can't get away with calling it work-place
violence they're going to say they were self-radicalized or 'inspired' but not
sponsored by an international terrorist network. You're going to see
'ISIS-inspired.'
"They say it was
inspired in one breath and then in the next breath they're saying they went out
of their way to hide their identity and they destroyed their cells and hard
drives and they used aliases and they went overseas for training. That Somali
guy (Hassan) – he absolutely is a player, his tracks he can't cover them now,
but our FBI is in the mindset that they won't pursue it any further. That's the
PC policy. They did it with the Boston bombers. They knew from the Russians they
could absolutely confirm the communications between the Tsarnaev brothers and
the hierarchy. If they'd gone to their social media and looked under their
aliases they would have seen it."
The younger brother
posted and said he was going to carry out an attack two years prior to the
actual attack in summer of 2013. "He said he was
coming after us. That came out in the trial," Davis said. "The media
is not going to cover it. They just cover the slaughter of the week, the
slaughter of the month, they won't connect the dots."
Davis believes Oklahoma
City served as the 21st century blueprint for Islamic terror on American soil. "We're
playing catch up 20 years later. It's not just about ISIS. The head of ISIS,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was the head of al-Qaida in Iraq. U.S. forces let him go.
He later formed the Islamic State, also called ISIS.
"Here no evil,
speak no evil, see no evil," Davis said. "There is no Middle Eastern
terrorist network on U.S. soil. That is the policy of the FBI."
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