Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy
In interviews with Buffalo News journalists, reported in their recently released book American Terrorist(ReganBooks, April 2000), McVeigh claims total responsibility for the bombing, saying “It was my choice and my handle to hit that building when it was full.” In Others Unknown Jones sets the record straight, saying what he could not say when he first wrote this book, ahead of McVeigh efficiently waived attorney-client privilege: that based on what he learned as McVeigh’s counsel, Jones knows that the bombing was a conspiracy, and that McVeigh was not its mastermind. “I am not making an attempt to say he was innocent. He has exaggerated his guilt to safeguard other individuals. He played a function, but he was a foot soldier, a mule, not the common,” says Jones.
“I know it did not take place the way he tells it in his book.”
Jones reports in detail what McVeigh told him as the case progressed explains why McVeigh did not plead guilty and exhibits McVeigh’s actual role in the conspiracy and how he obstructed his personal defense. This is the definitive historical record of a heinous act of murderous rage an account indispensable to understanding what happened. And, says PublicAffairs CEO and publisher Peter Osnos:
“We assume it really is essential that Tim McVeigh not be provided the final word.”
Stephen Jones, the chief defense counsel for Timothy McVeigh, the first of two guys convicted in the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, lays out a situation that McVeigh and Terry Nichols, also convicted in the bombing, did not act alone. In his attempt to defend McVeigh, Jones traveled the globe to turn up every achievable scrap of details that may well lead him to the “other people unknown” cited by the grand jury that heard proof in the bombing case. Some of the evidence is compelling, such as the severed leg that did not match any of the victims Jones is convinced it belonged to “John Doe number two,” an unidentified man credited with planting the bomb in the Murrah Office Constructing. Jones also lays out a quite strong argument that Terry Nichols was in touch with Muslim fundamentalist terrorists in the Philippines and that he asked them to aid him construct a bomb. But Jones’s refusal to break his lawyer-consumer privilege by discussing anything that McVeigh said to him forces the writer to stroll a tightrope, revealing absolutely nothing about his client’s part in the bombing even though trying to outline the possible involvement of other people.
Non-conspiracy buffs may find it far-fetched that the United States government would want to cover up information about the doable involvement of Muslim fundamentalists or white supremacists in the bombing, but Jones has two arguments to assistance the concept. Very first, he suggests, the government was attempting to cover its tracks for not having heeded several danger indicators just before the bombing took area. In addition, this was also huge and as well horrible a crime to go unpunished it had to be closed without having query and with no suspects left at significant. For individuals who are persuaded by Jones’s arguments, the chilling question stays: when–and exactly where–will the “other individuals unknown” strike following? –Linda Killian
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