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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 03
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE MANNLICHER-CARCANO BOMB
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David Hoffman, author of a forthcoming book *The Oklahoma City
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Bombing and the Politics of Terror*, offers the following preview
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of his work-in-progress. Hoffman says his book will be published
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by Feral House, probably in late 1997. Hoffman publishes the
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Haight Ashbury Free Press, and has temporarily moved to Oklahoma
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City to work on this book.
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...Was the BATF in fact responsible, knowingly or
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unknowingly, for the explosion that destroyed the Murrah
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building? Consider the following article which appeared in
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the June 5, 1995 issue of Newsweek:
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"For the past year, the BATF and the Army Corps of
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Engineers have been blowing up car bombs at the White Sands
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Proving Ground in New Mexico. The project, code-named
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Dipole Might, is designed to create a computer model to
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unravel terrorist car-and truck-bomb attacks. By
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coincidence, a BATF agent assigned to Dipole Might,
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happened to be in Oklahoma City on April 19th, working at
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the Federal Courthouse, which stands across the street from
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the Murrah Building. He saw the devastation and called the
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BATF office in Dallas. The Murrah Building had just been
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hit by 'ANFO' (ammonium material) bomb of at least several
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thousand pounds, he reported. Within minutes, explosives
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agents trained under Dipole Might were dispatched to the
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scene. They identified the type and size of the bomb
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almost immediately."
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Just how this agent (Harry Everhart) was able to
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immediately ascertain the building had been blown up by an
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ANFO bomb, when no forensic analysis had yet been
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conducted, is unclear. When Phil O'Halloran, a freelance
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journalist, attempted to ask the BATF Public Relations
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Bureau why a Dipole Might expert just happened to be in the
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courthouse at that moment, and how he could immediately
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have known the exact nature of the bomb, O'Halloran, rather
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than be given a rational explanation, was accused of
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attacking the agency and was promised a fax of agency views
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on right-wing conspiracists (which never arrived)....
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It also seems that the "coincidence" of the BATF's Dipole
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Might tests were uncannily similar to the May 24, 1990
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bombing of Earth First! activist Judi Bari. The FBI
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claimed that Bari and her companion Daryl Cherney, who were
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on their way to a peaceful protest rally, had inadvertently
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blown themselves up with their own pipe-bomb.
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After Bari sued the FBI for false arrest and civil rights
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violations, she found out through court discovery that the
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FBI ran a "bomb school" at Eureka College of the Redwoods
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in April of 1990 for both FBI and local police. The
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classes included blowing up cars with pipe bombs,
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ostensibly to demonstrate tactics used by terrorists (the
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same reason cited in the BATF case). The instructor for
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this "school of terrorism" was none other than Frank Doyle
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Jr., the FBI bomb squad expert who showed up at the scene
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of Bari's car bombing one month later.
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According to Freedom of Information Act records, the
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Treasury Department's (BATF is under the Treasury
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Department) Project Dipole Might was actually initated
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under the authorization of Clinton's National Security
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Council. One of the stated purposes of the Dipole Might
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project was to produce computer models of bombings to "be
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displayed in a courtroom to aid in the prosecution of
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defendants." Naturally, the Justice Department plans on
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using the video tapes shot at White Sands during the trial
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of McVeigh and Nichols to "prove" that an ANFO bomb blew up
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the building. As Lawrence Myers, writing in Media Bypass
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magazine wrote:
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Why the National Security Council would fund such an
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ATF project, despite the absolute rarity of the
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crime, has not been explained. Nor has it been
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explained as to what specific threat assessment
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information the government had when it decided to
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engage in such a project, just a few months before a
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Ryder Truck laden with ammonium-nitrate fertilizer
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exploded in front of the Murrah Building.
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As Myers points out, the last-known case of a truck bomb
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exploding in the U.S. was in 1970, when an ANFO bomb
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exploded in front of the ROTC building at the University of
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Wisconsin, in Madison. Why then, would the National
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Security Council suddenly feel the need for detailed
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information regarding ANFO truck-bomb attacks?
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Was the BATF expecting such a bombing. Were they in fact
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responsible for blast or the secondary damage to the
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building? Or was the building wired for demolition as part
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of a larger plot?
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"I'm firmly convinced that the BATF is guilty of an awful
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lot of things," said Bud, our ex-Green Beret friend. "I
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mean, if you look at what the BATF and the FBI did to Randy
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Weaver (and at Waco), it's just awful. They've gone hog
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wild and have [become] a power unto themselves."
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Asked if he thought a rogue group or special unit within
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the military/intelligence community could or would commit
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such an act?
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"It wouldn't really stun me," said Bud.
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By
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David Hoffman, Publisher
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Haight Ashbury Free Press
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6118 N. Meridian, #621
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Oklahoma City, OK 73112
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http://www.webcom.com/haight
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(405) 948-1330 (temporarily in Oklahoma City)
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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