Oklahoma Connection

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The Oklahoma Connection is a conspiracy theory that has been popular in the United States for years . The core of the theory is that the April 19, 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building was at least partially supported by Islamist terrorists . Basically there is a connection between neo-Nazis in the USA and Al-Qaeda .

Circumstantial evidence

• In the last week of November 1994 , Terry Nichols , the right hand man of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, and Ramsi Jussuf , the main mastermind behind the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, had a flight from the Philippine island of Cebu to the same day Los Angeles booked. They also applied for a visa to the Philippines that same week . Both stayed in hotels near the island's university. Proponents of the theory believe that such a large number of coincidences cannot exist.

• Former White House anti-terrorist Richard Clarke is still convinced today that the April 19, 1995 attack was just an overture to the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Source: Richard Clarke's book: "Against all Enemies" )

• Originally the FBI was looking for an accomplice they named "John Doe 2". He was described by witnesses as a man with "Middle Eastern features". "John Doe 2" was never caught.

media

So far, the German media have never declared the Oklahoma connection to be completely excluded. However, they are very careful with this. The Southeast Asia correspondent for the news channel n-tv Hommy Dara wrote an article on the station's homepage that ended with the following sentence:

"There is no evidence that the two knew each other. If so, the attack in the USA on April 19, 1995, in which 168 people lost their lives, would have to be completely reassessed."

The New York correspondent for Der Spiegel magazine , Marc Pitzke , also published an article entitled "Bin Laden's Oklahoma Connection".

In contrast to the German media, American journalists are clearer on the subject. Jayna Davis , an investigative journalist from Oklahoma City, has been following the story since 1995 and accuses the US government of serious omissions. For them the case is "clear".

The conservative newspaper "The New American" is also convinced that Al-Qaeda and neo-Nazis are in a coalition. The government did not pursue the connection to the Arabs in order not to expose itself to the accusation of racism .