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- Adam Parfrey, head of Feral House Publishing,
kindly sent me his latest release, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics
Of Terror by David Hoffman. Different readers will find the book shocking
for their own reasons but what struck me hardest were the uncanny parallels
between the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building on April 19, 1995
and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin barely six months later. It was
as if the same planners were involved in both operations and this, in fact,
may well be the case. Admittedly, the following parallels were drawn after
only the first reading of Hoffman's book and since his thesis is complicated,
I will have to be oversimplify his case. Nonetheless, consider the skeleton
of the Oklahoma City plot drawn by Hoffman with my own research and conclusions
about the Rabin murder:
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- - Timothy McVeigh served in the Marines
and was sent overseas to Kuwait. * Yigal Amir served in the infantry and
immediately after discharge was sent by an intelligence unit of the Prime
Minister's Office to Riga, Latvia. - Once discharged and back home, McVeigh
assumed a new personality, one that drove him toward "radical"
anti-government organizations. * Once his assignment ended, Amir returned
home, enrolled in university and became a campus "radical" organizer.
- McVeigh was drawn to a paramilitary right-wing "cult" called
Elohim City and was seen often with a leading ideologue of the group, Andreas
Strassmeir. * Amir joined a right-wing anti-government organization called
Eyal and befriended its founder, Avishai Raviv. - Strassmeir was an FBI
plant imported from Germany to infiltrate the militia movement. * Raviv
was a Shabak (General Security Services) officer assigned to infiltrate
the settler movement and Israeli religious, right wing movements. - After
the Oklahoma City bombing, the American government protected Strassmeir
from implication in the bombing, despite his proven close ties to McVeigh,
and quickly returned him to Germany.
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- * After the assassination, the whole
legal apparatus of the Knesset, from the Justice Ministry to the State
Attorney General's Office, protected Avishai Raviv from prosecution, despite
his proven close ties to Amir. - Strassmeir established contacts between
Elohim City and extremist Arab groups ultimately connected to Iraq.
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- * Raviv was widely reported to have established
ties between Eyal and extremist Arab organizations such as Hamas. - Hoffman
concludes that McVeigh was "an FBI informer" on what he thought
was an assignment in Oklahoma City. That would explain why he surrendered
so peacefully to a lone policeman on a deserted stretch of highway shortly
after murdering 169 people in the blast.
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- * I have concluded that Amir was utilized
by the Shabak and he may have thought he was protected. His first words
after being apprehended for shooting Rabin were, "Why are you handcuffing
me? I did my job, now you do yours." - Numerous witnesses saw FBI
bomb squad members casing the Murrah building before the explosion and
the same bomb squad arrived within minutes of the bombing, well before
the arrival of the police or fire department. Hoffman makes a strong argument
that the Oklahoma City bombing was a sting operation gone awry. McVeigh's
partner, now known as John Doe Number Two, was an FBI operative whose task
was to disengage the truck bomb. The bomb squad was in place along with
numerous federal officers to catch McVeigh "in the act" of setting
the huge bomb. As far as these officers knew, the bomb was not supposed
to go off. * Avishai Raviv was also at the rally where Rabin was shot and
is widely thought to have supplied Amir with a gun he thought was loaded
with blanks. After Amir shot at Rabin, his bodyguards, instead of killing
the shooter on the spot, ignored him and shouted that his bullets were
blank. As far as most of the Shabak officers were informed, Amir was going
to shoot blank bullets and be caught in the act of attempting to murder
the prime minister. As far as they knew, Rabin was not going to be shot
with real bullets. - The original plan was for McVeigh, the patsy, to be
arrested, his ties to Elohim City exposed, thus justifying a nationwide
crackdown on the growing militia movement. * The original plan was for
Amir, the patsy, to be arrested, his ties to Eyal exposed, thus justifying
a nationwide crackdown on the growing anti-peace process movement. - But
powerful figures apprised of the operation, decided to change it. McVeigh's
fertilizer contraption would explode in tandem with far more effective
bombs planted within the building. * But the Shabak agents on the spot
did not realize that the staged murder of Rabin had been altered by highly
influential figures within the Israeli political establishment. Amir would
shoot his blanks but real bullets would be awaiting Rabin in his limousine.
- The FBI and the government were presented with a fait accompli and were
forced to cover up the murders in Oklahoma City in order to hide their
own roles in a very illegal sting operation. * The Shabak and government
were forced to protect Rabin's real murderers or face charges of complicity
in a highly illegal sting operation. - The FBI intimidated witnesses and
forced them to keep quiet or change their stories. Hoffman documents numerous
examples of terrified witnesses no longer telling their original version
of events.
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- * The Shabak intimidated witnesses and
I spoke with the terrified people after. One witness told me, "Please
leave us alone. You don't know what they did to us." The newsmagazine
Zman Tel Aviv reported that all medical staff who attended Rabin had been
subjected to frightening death threats. - However, not everyone would be
intimidated and they paid for their integrity with their lives. Police
Sargent Terrance Yeakey refused to play along with the coverup and he "committed
suicide." Hoffman describes his alleged last act. "Apparently
Yeakey tried to cut himself in the wrists, neck and throat, then, after
losing approximately two pints of blood, got out of his car (conscientiously
rememberng to lock the doors), walking a mile-and-a-half over rough terrain,
crawling under a barbed-wire fence, wading through a culvert, then laying
down in a ditch to shoot himself in the head."
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- * Yoav Kuriel was a police officer assigned
to protect Rabin. Eleven days after the assassination, he "committed
suicide" and was buried in a midnight funeral. All traffic at the
busy junction of the cemetary was re-routed for ninety minutes. I was supplied
with sensitive documents about Kuriel, including his death certificate
indirectly by someone who prepared his body for burial. I was reliably
informed that Kuriel was shot seven times in the chest.
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- - The FBI quickly busied itself removing
all files from sensitive government offices within the Murrah Building,
then, ordered the building and all its secrets razed to the ground.
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- * Rabin's aide Eitan Haber rushed to
the hospital and removed Rabin's blood-soaked possessions from the premises.
After phoning the American Ambassador to inform him the prime minister
had been shot, he rushed to Rabin's Defence Ministry office and emptied
the file cabinets. He later explained that he wanted to preserve Rabin's
memorabilia for the army archives.
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- - Vital evidence was withheld at McVeigh's
trial and he made no attempt to defend himself. Instead he justified his
actions as revenge against a tyrannical government. The government has
turned its version of events into stone, forever demonizing the militia
movement with responsibility for the bloodbath at Oklahoma City.
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- * Amir's trial was at a kangaroo court.
All evidence indicating a conspiracy was dismissed by the judges. To this
day, religious Israelis, settlers, in fact anyone who opposed the Oslo
"Peace" Accords have been demonized by the authorities with responsibility
for Rabin's murder.
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- In my upcoming book, I present my suspicions
that the order to assassinate Rabin came from America. His murder displayed
all the trademarks of an American political hit. The parallels between
the Oklahoma City bombing and the Rabin murder strongly suggest the possibility
of a common plan, and thus, common planners. A final parallel: Feral House's
next book is called Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin? David Hoffman and I share
more than a publisher. Independent of each other, we arrived at eerily
similar conclusions about the crimes we investigated.
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- Please visit: www.webseers.com/rabin
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