{"id":203,"date":"2012-06-17T04:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.110.86.41\/2\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-02-20T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T03:50:27","slug":"vindication-on-the-ramzi-yousef-terry-nichols-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Vindication on the Ramzi Yousef-Terry Nichols connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Vindication%20on%20the%20Ramzi%20Yousef-Terry%20Nichols%20connection\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Yousef-Nicholas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-204\" title=\"Yousef-Nicholas\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Yousef-Nicholas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Yousef-Nicholas.png 363w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Yousef-Nicholas-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a>On December 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2006, the House International Relations Oversight Committee, chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/rohrabacher.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=54750\">Cong. Dana Rhorabacher (R-CA)<\/a> released a report entitled: \u201cThe Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/HouseOKCReport.pdf\">Click for pdf of the Report:<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>The probe, led by Staff Investigator Phaedra Dugan, turned up startling new material on the possible Ramzi Yousef-Terry Nichols connection first detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060597259\/qid=1092955497\/sr=12-1\/002-9043938-1813621?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That book contained a chapter called &#8220;John Doe No. 2&#8221; in which I built a strong, but circumstantial, case for a Yousef nexus to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in O.K. City on April 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 1995, which killed 168 including 19 children.\u00a01000 YEARS lists multiple links between Ramzi Yousef and Terry Nichols relating to the Philippines.\u00a0For example:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A tour guide named Daisy Gelaspie, had told police that on trip to the Philippines in 1990, Nichols asked if she knew anyone who could build bombs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On that trip, Nichols met Marife Torres, a \u201cmail order bride,\u201d from the southern Philippines town of Cebu City. They were married that same year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nichols made additional trips to the Philippines during the early 90\u2019s and was even in Cebu at the same time as Ramzi Yousef in December, 1994.\u2028\u2028\u2022 Within days of Yousef\u2019s Manila bomb factory being raided by police,\u00a0 on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 1995, Nichols beat a hasty retreat from the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A source had told a U.S. consulate representative that Marife&#8217;s father, a former police officer, discovered a book on explosives in Nichols belongings after his exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ramzi Yousef, the Wales educated engineer responsible for both attacks on the World Trade Center, had begun training members of the Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda splinter group in the early 90&#8217;s near the Southern Philippines town of Davao City.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In a sworn deposition, Edwin Angeles, a top Abu Sayyaf turncoat, stated that in the early 90&#8217;s in Davao City, he&#8217;d been in a room with Nichols (aka &#8220;The Farmer\u201d) along with Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah; an Uzbeki beloved of Osama bin Laden whom the Saudi billionaire called \u201cthe lion.\u201d During the meeting Angeles swore that they\u2019d discussed bomb making and handling.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Prior to the OKC bombing in the fall of 1994 Tim McVeigh&#8217;s only attempt to explode an amonium-nitrate\/nitromethane IED (improvised explosive device) failed. This according to key Government witness Michael Fortier.\u00a0 But<em> after<\/em> Nichols and Yousef were in the Philippines at the same time in Cebu City, McVeigh and Nichols took down the Federal building<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On the day of the OK City blast\u00a0 Murad, Yousef&#8217;s oldest friend, a pilot trained in four U.S. flight schools, took credit for the blast while in a cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (M.C.C.) the federal jail in lower Manhattan.\u00a0The FBI even memorialized his confession in a #302 memo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Murad OKC 302 4.20.95\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/Murad_4_20_95_OKC_bomb_302.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK TO READ THE 302<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click to read Chapter 30 \u201cJohn Doe No. 2.\u201d<strong>\u2028<\/strong><strong>\u2028<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/HouseOKCReport.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The House Subcommittee Report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its Report, the House Subcommittee came up with compelling new evidence that: as early in 1992 and 1993 in the months prior to his placement of a 1,500 pound ammonium-nitrate fuel oil bomb, similar to the O.K. City device beneath the towers of the World Trade Center, Ramzi Yousef called a Filipina in Queens, New York, who lived in the same building as Marife Nichols\u2019 relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramzi Yousef was in the United States for about five months prior to his attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993. His cell phone records from that time period show that he placed three phone calls to the residence of a Filipina in Queens, New York named Mila Densing, with one call lasting approximately 30 minutes. At the time of the phone calls, Densing was living in the same row-house apartment building as Adora and Ernesto Malaluan, close friends and neighbors, who were also from Cebu City. Ernesto Malaluan is the cousin of Marife Nichols and owned the boarding house in Cebu City where Terry and Marife lived during their last trip to the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is extremely significant. Prima facie evidence that Yousef had developed a relationship with a Filipina with one degree of separation from Nichols&#8217; wife &#8212; and he did it two years <em>before <\/em>he was in the Philippines in the same town as Nichols.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identifying the Explosives Book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House Report also identifies the explosives book which I first referenced in 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE as reportedly found by Marife Nichols father. It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chemistry-Powder-Explosives-Tenney-Davis\/dp\/0913022004\">&#8220;The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives&#8221; by Tenney L. Davis.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On his first trip to Cebu with Shelton Paradise Tours,Terry Nichols was initially introduced to &#8220;tour guide&#8221; Daisy Gelaspi. They spent about four days together and, in a sworn signed statement to police and investigators, Gelaspi claimed that Nichols asked her if she knew anyone in the military or anyone else who could help him make a bomb. Additionally, on his final trip to the Philippines just months before the Oklahoma City bombing, Nichols had with him a bomb-making book entitled The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives. Nichols&#8217; interest in bomb making during his trips to the Philippines raises some doubt about whether he was genuinely there for a wife, or whether he was there to network with underground criminals and terrorists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What the report doesn&#8217;t say is that notes in a spiral notebook recovered from Yousef&#8217;s Manila bomb factory\u00a0at the time Nichols was in the Philippines, apparently referenced that <em>same<\/em> Tenney book as a source.\u00a0The notebook found in room #603 of the Dona Josefa Apartments, following a fire the night of January 6th, 1995, contained notes on the melting temperatures of chemicals used in IEDs.<\/p>\n<p>This connection was made by terrorism analyst <strong>John Berger<\/strong> on his website <a href=\"http:\/\/intelwire.egoplex.com\/2006_12_23_exclusives.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Intelwire.com<\/span><\/a><strong>. <\/strong>\u00a0As Berger describes this important link:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring Yousef&#8217;s 1995 trial for a plot to bomb U.S. airliners, defense attorneys cited that passage from the notebook and argued that it had been lifted from <em>The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The significance of these findings: What are the chances that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Ramzi Yousef would know a Filipina close to Terry Nichols\u2019 wife and call her repeatedly in 1992\/93?<\/p>\n<p>b) Ramzi Yousef and Terry Nichols would be in the Philippines in an obscure city at the same time and use the same explosives book as a reference?\u2028\u2028c) Nichols would be convicted of bombing a building with an ammonium-nitrate-nitro methane IED in 1995 similar in design to Yousef\u2019s urea-nitrate-fuel oil IED detonated at the World Trade Center in 1993 &#8211; both devices delivered to their targets in yellow rented Ryder trucks?<\/p>\n<p>In his memoir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-All-Enemies-Inside-Americas\/dp\/0743260457\/sr=8-1\/qid=1168728420\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-6926469-3921450?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AGAINST ALL ENEMIES<\/span><\/a>, even former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke admitted that it was possible that Philippines al Qaeda operatives had &#8220;taught Terry Nichols how to blow up the Oklahoma Federal Building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Samir Khalil un-indicted co-conspirator #88?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another new finding in the House Report that may relate directly to Patrick Fitzgerald, cited in TRIPLE CROSS for negligence in failing to reign in al Qaeda master spy Ali Mohamed:<\/p>\n<p>The Report discusses one Samir Khalil, a Palestinian who had hired a number of Middle Eastern men to work on his properties in O.K. City prior to the bombing. Khalil&#8217;s ex-wife, Carole Sue Khalil, 50 was killed on the fifth floor of the Murrah Building in the offices of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture at the time of the blast. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2001-06-11-mcveigh-victims.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click for list of OKC bombing victims<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to his former bookkeeper, Khalil was at the Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas two days later at a time Terry Nichols phone records show that two calls came to his home in Herrington, Kansas from the Circus Circus. <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/TerryNicholsPhoneRecord.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click for records<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, two days after the Murrah blast, few beyond the police, knew that Nichols had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The name Samir Khalil is on a list of 172 unindicted co-conspirators in the \u201cDay of Terror\u201d case co-prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patrick Fitzgerald and Andrew C. McCarthy. Other names on the list include Osama bin Laden, his brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa and Ali Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>Appendix X on page 574 of TRIPLE CROSS, lists a Samir Khalil as unindicted co-conspirator #88. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/unindicteccoconspiratorlist.pdf\">Click to download a pdf\u00a0 of the list.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cong. Rhorabacher. who ran the investigation. asked the Dept. of Justice to determine if this was the \u201cSamir Khalil\u201d relating to the OK City bombing: but he was stonewalled.<\/p>\n<p>This subcommittee asked the Department of Justice to determine if the man&#8217;s name on the un-indicted coconspirators World Trade Center bombing list is the same man in Oklahoma City. A letter responding to this request stated that such a task would be too \u201cburdensome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But how \u201cburdensome\u201d would it have been for Justice to make that connection for the Congressmen who was in the midst of a bona fide investigation? All DOJ officials would have had to do is ask Patrick Fitzgerald himself, the man identified by <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> as having a \u201cmainframe-computer brain\u201d when it comes to al Qaeda and the SDNY prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2006\/02\/fitzgerald200602\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click for Vanity Fair story, <\/span><\/a>\u201cMr. Fitz Goes to Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the \u201cSamir Khalil\u201d on the un-indicted co-conspirators list is <em>not<\/em> the same man related to the O.K. City bombing \u2013 even as the husband of a victim \u2013 how difficult would it be for the FBI and Justice Department to say so?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the continued refusal of the Bureau and Justice to come clean on their O.K. City investigation that raises so many questions.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with me on January 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007, Mike Johnson, an attorney from Oklahoma City who has represented dozens of bombing victims or family members in a suit alleging a foreign connection to the blast had this to say:\u2028\u2028\u201cThe Rhorabacher Report opens new doors in connecting Terry Nichols\u2019 activities in the Philippines to master terrorist bomber Ramzi Yousef. Yousef\u2019s telephone records should be made available to victims of the\u00a0 bombing to allow for further investigation of his apparent contact with Marife Nichols family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Scarpa Jr. Nichols Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On January 9<sup>th<\/sup>, a second event occurred that could also lead to the discovery of new evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal judge ruled that the upcoming murder trial of retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent R. Lindley DeVecchio would take place in Brooklyn where the indictments were handed down on March 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2006 and not in Federal court where DeVecchio\u2019s lawyers had sought to move the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ex-fbi-agent-case-federal-court-rules-article-1.262051\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK FOR<\/a> the story from the N.Y. Daily News<\/p>\n<p>This clears the way for the trial in which DeVecchio\u2019s alleged ties to former Colombo crime family hit man Gregory Scarpa Sr. (aka \u201cThe Killing Machine\u201d) can be fully explored.<\/p>\n<p>As reported first in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060597259\/qid=1092955497\/sr=12-1\/002-9043938-1813621?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE<\/span><\/a> and later detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060795115\/ref=ed_oe_p\/102-2053641-9124919?%5Fencoding=UTF8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">COVER UP<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060886889\/sr=8-1\/qid=1156224481\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-7122873-9039940?ie=UTF8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TRIPLE CROSS,<\/span><\/a> the DeVecchio-Scarpa Sr. scandal led the FBI and Justice Department to bury a treasure trove of al Qaeda related intelligence uncovered over 11 months in 1996-1997 by the killer\u2019s son Greg Jr. who, was located, ironically, in a cell between Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murder in the M.C.C.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the revelations including proof of an active al Qaeda cell in NYC in 1996 are contained in a series of FBI 302 memos which can be accessed on this website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/PLfbi.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click to examine<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But in an epic story fraught with irony, perhaps the most extraordinary irony to date is a nexus with Scarpa Jr. that takes us back to Oklahoma City:<\/p>\n<p>As recounted below in Chapter 39 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060886889\/sr=8-1\/qid=1156224481\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-7122873-9039940?ie=UTF8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TRIPLE CROSS<\/span><\/a> Greg Scarpa Jr. now serving a 40 years sentence at the ADX Florence, the notorious \u201cSupermax\u201d prison was responsible for uncovering a cache of undiscovered explosives buried for ten years. His source this time, was Terry Nichols.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLOSIVES THE FBI MISSED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By February 2005, Scarpa Jr., the Colombo Family wiseguy who had risked his life for eleven months between 1996 and 1997 ratting out the true mastermind of both WTC attacks, was in the middle of the seventh year of a forty-year sentence. Confined to a seven-by-twelve-foot cell in the prison known as \u201cThe Alcatraz of the Rockies,\u201d the United States Penitentiary Administrative Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, he slept on a thin mattress atop a concrete slab.<\/p>\n<p>Subject to special administrative measures (SAMs) that limited his number of visitors and phone calls, Scarpa Jr. was literally walled off from the outside world, unable to receive any newspapers or periodicals that would give him a hint of conditions on the other side of the prison\u2019s twelve-foot razor-wire fences.<\/p>\n<p>Along with a number of lone-wolf bombers housed there\u2014such as Unabomber Ted Kazcinski and Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph\u2014his fellow inmates now included many of the al Qaeda terrorists who had been convicted in the SDNY and imprisoned on multiple life sentences, including Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, Eyad Ismoil, and Nidal Ayyad.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his solitary confinement, which allowed him only one to two hours outside of his cell each day, Greg Jr. learned in early 2005 that homegrown terrorists might be planning to use a cache of undiscovered explosives from America\u2019s second biggest adjudicated act of terror: the Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The tip came from Terry Nichols, the disgruntled army veteran who was convicted with Timothy McVeigh of planting the bomb on April 19, 1995, that killed 168 people at the Murrah Federal Building. McVeigh himself had been housed at the Supermax until his execution in 2001. Now, during their limited contact, which included the exchange of \u201ckites\u201d similar to those that Yousef had passed to Scarpa, Nichols was warning that a cache of nitro methane buried at Terry\u2019s old home in Herrington, Kansas, might be retrieved and used to mark the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City blast in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nichols, the explosive was buried with an ammunition can under a pile of rocks in a crawl space beneath the house where the FBI had supposedly done a thorough search following his arrest ten years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as he got the word from Nichols, Scarpa Jr. contacted Angela Clemente, the forensic investigator who had been working to get him a lawyer for the past several years. With her partner, a Yale-educated Ph.D. named Stephen Dresch, Clemente contacted staff members in the offices of two congressmen she had dealt with on government reform issues: William Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant revelation from Scarpa Jr., according to Clemente, was Nichols\u2019s alleged admission that \u201cothers unknown\u201d <em>were<\/em> involved in the original Murrah Building plot\u2014despite Timothy McVeigh\u2019s insistence up until his execution that he and Nichols had acted alone.<\/p>\n<p>Another startling new allegation Scarpa learned from Nichols was that Roger Moore, an Arkansas gun dealer whose girlfriend testified against Nichols and McVeigh, may have been an FBI informant. Nichols has alleged that it was Moore who supplied the tubes of the high explosive that were buried in the crawl space.<\/p>\n<p>Moore has always vigorously denied any involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerry was anxious to have somebody test the boxes the explosive had come in for fingerprints,\u201d says Clemente, \u201cand that\u2019s why he let word of the explosives slip to Greg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During McVeigh\u2019s trial, the government had argued that Nichols and McVeigh had financed the Oklahoma City bombing by using the proceeds from a gunpoint robbery at Moore\u2019s home on November 4, 1994. But evidence later showed that on the day of the robbery McVeigh was at a gun show in Kent, Ohio, hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Moore alleged that he had been accosted outside of his house at 9:00 or 9:30 a.m. that day by a man wearing a black ski mask and wielding a gun. Moore said that the man then took him inside the house and single handedly tied him up with rope and duct tape before robbing a series of guns, ammunition, coins, and other valuables.<\/p>\n<p>In his book <em>Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case and Conspiracy,<\/em> McVeigh\u2019s lawyer, Stephen Jones, wondered how Nichols, who \u201csaw poorly\u201d without his glasses and didn\u2019t own contact lenses, could have effected the robbery. As Jones noted, Moore was never called by the government as a witness at McVeigh\u2019s trial, but at Nichols\u2019 trial, when Moore\u2019s girlfriend and\/or business associate listed one of the guns as stolen, Nichols\u2019 attorney\u00a0 demonstrated that Terry had purchased that same weapon at a gun show two years before\u2014a revelation described by Jones as \u201ca stunning blow to the prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPEACHING GREG JR. AGAIN<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now on March 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 2005, to\u00a0 test Scarpa\u2019s credibility on the Nichols tip, the FBI reportedly sent a polygraph tech to the Supermax. After a brief examination, he reportedly concluded that Scarpa Jr. had failed. But forensic investigator Clemente insists that the lie detector test was flawed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all,\u201d says Clemente, \u201cthe polygraph specialist sent from D.C. was belligerent to Greg Jr., which violates the protocol. Second of all, he asked about four questions, then abruptly left the test, went into another room and returned, but he didn\u2019t re-inflate the cuff used to measure the subject\u2019s responses. Finally, this man abruptly ended the test, and told Greg Jr. he wasn\u2019t credible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, just as he had with Yousef in 1996, Scarpa offered the FBI details of the explosives and their location that only Terry Nichols himself could have known. Clemente and Dr. Dresch reduced Scarpa\u2019s verbatim recitation of Nichols\u2019s account to a memo and sent it to an aide to Congressman Rhorabacher. In it they predicted that if the FBI searched the crawl space they would find:\u00a0a cardboard box [approx. equal to] 18\u201dx18\u201dx18\u201d wrapped securely in clear plastic wrap containing a full case of the nitro methane (red tinted) liquid portion (component) of the 2-part binary explosive component known as kine-stik (a.k.a. kine-pak). [The liquid is in small clear plastic tubes.] This box is the original box the product came in when delivered to [Roger] Moore\u2019s home at Royal, Arkansas. Thus this is the box which would have his fingerprints on the outside or on the inside flaps . . . There is a 2nd box that\u2019s also a brown cardboard similar in size to the first, possibly a bit larger. It too is wrapped securely in clear plastic and is sitting right next to the first box. This second box contains numerous (a couple hundred) electric blasting caps. And nearby these 2 boxes is a .50 caliber military ammo can ([approximately] 6\u201dW x 8\u201dH x 12\u201dL). It contains at least one non-electric blasting cap, a 16 oz. can of black powder, 2 instructional booklets and some other miscellaneous items.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the location of the explosive were even more specific. According to Scarpa, Nichols even suggested that in locating the kine-stiks the investigator should bring a flashlight and wear coveralls:<\/p>\n<p>Find north basement stairway near bathroom. Near bottom step is a square hole about 2 ft. by 2 ft. through the cement wall to left (east). This leads to the crawl space under most of the house. As soon as you enter into the crawl space both to the right which is south and left north are two piles of rocks. These are up against the wall you just went through.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The two rock piles were part of the foundation wall which was torn down to make other access holes for other parts of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Under the south pile is my ammo can.<\/p>\n<p>Under the north pile are two cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Simply remove the rocks. The north pile probably has some dirt covering the two boxes but not much. There is little light so a drop cord or flashlight would be helpful. And coveralls\u2014the crawl space area is a dirt floor. The box to be fingerprinted, etc., is the one with the little tubes of reddish clear liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Bureau\u2019s claim that Scarpa had failed his polygraph, enough pressure was brought to bear by Congressional staffers that the FBI finally agreed to a search. A team of agents entered the empty Herrington, Kansas house on March 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, John Solomon, the Associated Press\u2019s Washington deputy bureau chief, filed this story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/uniontrib\/20050403\/news_1n3nichols.html\" target=\"_blank\"> on the AP\u2019s national wire:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI is facing the possibility it made an embarrassing oversight in the Oklahoma City bombing case a decade ago after new information led agents to explosive materials hidden in Terry Nichols\u2019 former home, which they had searched several times before. FBI officials said the material was found Thursday night and Friday in a crawl space of the house in Herington, Kan. They believe agents failed to check that space during the numerous searches of the property during the original investigation of Nichols and Timothy McVeigh. The information so far indicates the items have been there since prior to the Oklahoma City bombing,\u201d Agent Gary Johnson said in a telephone interview from Oklahoma City.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Solomon reported that McVeigh\u2019s attorney, Stephen Jones, \u201cknew that some materials gathered for the attack were never found by the FBI and this discovery could answer some of those questions. But he added that it could also prove to be another black eye for the FBI, which was criticized for causing a delay in McVeigh\u2019s execution after it found new documents in the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is clearly embarrassing if it turns out to be true,\u201d Jones said in Solomon\u2019s story. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from not producing everything for the defendants to failing to recover from one of the conspirator\u2019s homes evidence that clearly is material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/A.P._4_14_05_Sherman_Nichols_explosives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In a follow up story on April 14th, 2005,<\/a> the A.P.\u2019s Mark Sherman reported that \u201cWhile the FBI found no evidence supporting the idea that an attack is in the works for Tuesday\u2019s 10th anniversary [of the Oklahoma City bombing,] the information that explosives had been hidden in Nichols former home in Herington Kansas turned out to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Schwadron, Cong. Delahunt\u2019s chief of staff, confirmed in the piece that the congressman\u2019s staff had forwarded the warning to the FBI after receiving a letter about the hidden cache from Clemente and Dr. Dresch in early March. According to Sherman, the Bureau refused to comment on why it took weeks between the initial warning and the search to find the explosives, which had been buried beneath a home in a residential neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>In the story A.P. reporter Sherman confirmed that &#8220;The tip came from imprisoned mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr&#8230;.an inmate in the same maximum security prison in Florence, CO where Nichols is serving life sentences for his role in the 1995 bombing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly the FBI\u2014particularly Valerie Caproni, the general counsel\u2014has every interest in discrediting Gregory Scarpa Jr.,\u201d says Clemente, who first supplied me with Scarpa Jr.\u2019s trove of intel from Yousef back in 2004. \u201cKeep in mind that Caproni was one of the top Feds who went along with the story that Greg Jr.\u2019s material from Yousef was a \u2018hoax\u2019 and a \u2018scam,\u201d and supported the four-decade sentence they gave him, even though Greg Jr. hadn\u2019t been convicted of a single homicide. She thought he would be buried forever and they would throw away the key and now, here he was in March of 2005 tipping the FBI to another major embarrassment connected to a massive act of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BURYING THE MARIJUANA KING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caproni, the former head of the criminal division in the EDNY, whose career was tied to the successful prosecution of those sixty remaining Colombo war cases, reportedly considers Scarpa\u2019s conviction \u201cone of her proudest accomplishments.\u201d Or so she told Robert Vosper, who wrote a flattering profile of Caproni in the October 2004 issue of <em>Corporate Legal Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe younger Scarpa ran a lucrative marijuana operation in Brooklyn and Staten Island for the Colombo family,\u201d Caproni told Vosper. \u201cNot only was his crew dealing, but also forcing just about every drug dealer in Bensonhurst to pay a \u2018street tax.\u2019 When one dealer couldn\u2019t pay off his $20,000 debt to Scarpa, the crew broke his cheekbone and both arms.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe police said that when they took him to the hospital he looked like a fly,\u201d Caproni told Vosper. \u201cBoth of his eyes were black and bloodshot, and his arms were broken. They beat the stuffing out of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that Greg Jr. was known as \u201cthe marijuana king\u201d of Staten Island. \u201cBut he has never been convicted of a single homicide,\u201d says his former lawyer Larry Silverman. \u201cSo when Caproni and the other prosecutors in the EDNY supported that forty-year sentence, it had nothing to do with anything remotely resembling fairness or justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was about the cover-up,\u201d insists Clemente, who pushed to reopen the DeVecchio investigation along with Andrew Orena, the son of Vic Orena, the reputed head of the Colombo crime family, who got a life sentence in 1992. It was Orena\u2019s faction, allegedly pitted against a faction of the family controlled by Alphonse \u201cAllie Boy\u201d Persico, that DeVecchio claimed had led to the infamous Colombo war between 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, when Orena and his capo, Pasquale Amato, were sentenced to life, their attorneys had no idea that Greg Scarpa Sr. had not only instigated the war, but that he\u2019d killed a third of the victims himself\u2014and done so with the alleged support and encouragement of R. Lindley DeVecchio, the FBI\u2019s top New York agent on organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>By early 1992, Christopher Favo, DeVecchio\u2019s number two in squad C-10 of the FBI\u2019s New York Office, had become concerned that key intelligence on the location of witnesses in the Colombo war was finding its way to Scarpa Sr.<\/p>\n<p>In January of that year, Favo gave DeVecchio what was thought to be the address of Orena\u2019s girlfriend where he was believed to be hiding out. He also furnished a mistaken address for one of Vic\u2019s soldiers. Later, a cooperating member of Scarpa\u2019s crew admitted that he\u2019d tried to kill both men by hunting them at the faulty addresses, which Greg Sr. had supplied to him from his \u201claw enforcement\u201d source.<\/p>\n<p>It was that mistake on the hideout address that was one of the eight possible \u201cdisclosures\u201d by DeVecchio to the \u201cGrim Reaper\u201d contained in EDNY prosecutor Ellen Corcella\u2019s letter to defense lawyers on May 8, 1995. Corcella worked directly under Caproni, who was found to have withheld a key piece of exculpatory evidence from defense attorneys documenting the alleged corrupt relationship between the hitman and DeVecchio whom the killer referred to in code as his \u201cgirlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Vindication%20on%20the%20Ramzi%20Yousef-Terry%20Nichols%20connection\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>On December 22nd, 2006, the House International Relations Oversight Committee, chaired by Cong. 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