A Pentagon civilian official has provided a formal affidavit stating that the Pentagon official viewed a surveillance tape video showing a Ryder truck and its occupants moments before it was used to bomb the Murrah Federal Building in OKC on April 19, 1995. The official further states that the Pentagon official saw in the video a Middle Eastern man closely resembling the Iraqi and McVeigh accomplice, Al Hussaini, exiting the Ryder truck when it was parked in front of the Murrah Building.

A copy of the official's affidavit is in the possession of Chicago attorney David Schippers, the attorney for the House Managers during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

Another Pentagon official in the office of Assistant Secretary of State, Paul Wolfowitz, has told investigators for Paul Bedard of US News and World Report and also David Schippers that McVeigh and his Iraqi accomplice, Al Hussaini, both called the same Iraqi phone number prior to the OKC bombing. The official also criticized the FBI and DOJ for a cover-up of the Iraqi connection to the OKC bombing for years.

Former Pentagon terrorism advisor Jesse Clear briefed the legal counsels for the Senate Intelligence (Joan Grimson) and the Senate Judiciary (Kolan Davis) Committees on the OKC bombing with my full knowledge and participation in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Clear told the counsels of the Middle Eastern connection and of the FBI and DOJ cover-up in the OKC bombing case. With Clear's permission, I wrote a letter to the editor of The New American magazine in 1998 describing Clear's briefing of Kolan Davis in Senator Grassley's office in 1997 which I attended and took part in. Clear was allowed to edit my letter to the magazine before it was published with only very minor changes.

Herb Johnson was the chief advisor and former chief of staff for Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Johnson wrote a letter for Edmond, Oklahoma attorney Dan Nelson in September 1998 describing the DOJ cover-up of the Middle East connection to the OKC bombing. Johnson stated that the head of the FBI command post in OKC told Johnson that the DOJ had ordered the FBI within 74 hours of the OKC bombing to keep the public from learning the details of the Middle Eastern involvement in the OKC bombing.

I spoke directly to Senator Inhofe about the Herb Johnson letter in January 1999 and urged Inhofe to go public with the letter. Senator Inhofe has not gone public with the letter to this day. I arranged for attorney David Schippers to learn of and obtain a copy of the Herb Johnson letter.

Within the same time frame as reported by Herb Johnson (about 74 hours after the OKC bombing), the FBI threatened three Army Recruiters if they went public about the recruiters seeing John Does with McVeigh in the Murrah building. These recruiters were interviewed by a freelance journalist and retired Marine Colonel who worked on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I have also spoken to one of the recruiters myself.

Former FBI agent Gary Aldrich personally advised me over three years ago that I would not succeed in getting anything done about the OKC bombing cover-up until I was able to get someone inside the government to come forward publicly.

Well, today, in compliance with Aldrich's advice, I have identified four government officials who were inside the government and who have written about the DOJ cover-up of the Iraqi and Middle Eastern connection to the OKC bombing.

Will I now get something done about the cover-up as Aldrich predicted I should be able to do? Time will tell.

Two of the men are identified by name, Jesse Clear and Herb Johnson (Senator Inhofe). One of the other man's name is known to David Schippers and Paul Bedard of US News and World Report and is in Wolfowitz's office. The other man's name is known to David Schippers and is the author of the affidavit concerning the Ryder truck surveillance tape.

I have privately urged and now I publicly urge David Schippers and Paul Bedard to release the names of these two other government officials. I have also urged Schippers to release the Herb Johnson letter publicly.

And I have also urged David Schippers to come forward with the evidence Schippers has of the involvement in the OKC bombing by the Iraqi mercenary (paid by Saddam Hussein) and AlQaeda lieutenant, Khalid Mohammed. Khalid Mohammed was also the mastermind of the 1993 WTC and 9/11 attacks. Witnesses known to Schippers have come forward to say that Khalid was in OKC to assist the OKC bombing twice: Once in 1994 for Khalid Mohammed to escort the Iraqi Al Hussaini to OKC from Boston; the other in 1995, for Khalid Mohammed to be paid by Al Hussaini's employer Dr. Samir Khalil, a Hamas operative still protected in OKC by the FBI, DOJ and CIA.

Khalid was living with his nephew, Ramzi Youseff, in the Philippines when Khalid helped Yousef meet with Terry Nichols to plan the OKC bombing. The FBI, CIA and DOJ learned of the OKC plot in the Philippines in February 1995.

It is necessary during the public debate on possible war with Iraq to have these four government officials publicly identified and to have publicly revealed Iraq and Khalid Mohammed's involvement in the OKC bombing (and the 1993 WTC and 9/11 attacks).

I have personally made John Solomon of the AP in DC and William Jasper, editor of The New American Magazine aware of the facts and details of this article especially the facts about the four government officials and Khalid Mohammed. OKC attorney Mike Johnston (filed lawsuit against Iraq for OKC bombing victims) has also urged Solomon and Jasper to write about this information. I hope and expect they will now move forward very soon to publish articles telling America about Iraq's and Khalid Mohammed invovlement, the stories of the four officials inside the US government and the DOJ cover-up.

I have also urged Jo Thomas of the NY Times and Micah Morrison of the WSJ to publish the details I gave them for over two months about Khalid Mohammed's involvement in the OKC bombing case.

America has the right of self defense against Iraq for the Iraq aided attack on the Murrah building and the deaths of 169 innocent Americans. The right of self-defense is the strongest possible argument for the American government to use to persuade the American public, the Congress and potential allies to support America when America needs to take whatever action is necessary to defend herself from Iraq. Even if the American government still refuses in its persuasive arguments to use knowledge of the Iraqi involvement in the OKC bombing and the 1993 WTC and 9/11 attacks, the American public still has the right to know of the Iraqi aggression on innocent Americans and the right to demand that American government leaders reveal what they know about Iraqi aggression and take protective action against Iraq.

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley