April 2, 2005
A FARM THE SIZE OF IRAQ
FBI Finds Explosives in Nichols' Old Home (John Solomon, AP, 4/2/05)
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' former home, which they had searched several times before.Agents are also investigating some tapered cylinders with Arabic markings found with the cache, but sources suggest that they are merely old farm implements. "From a skull and crossbones painted on the cylinders, we surmise that this is some sort of rodenticide." Posted by David Cohen at April 2, 2005 9:43 AMFBI 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.
My farming relatives in Illinois always were that way: 'Don't want any of that Monsanto pesticide. Give me the good stuff from Eye-raq any day.'
Posted by: old maltese at April 2, 2005 12:30 PM"Hey Vern! Lookee here, there's a card tied to one of these big metal things with a skull and crossbones."
"What does it say Ralph?"
"Dear Timothy and Terry, here are some extra strong weapons of mass destruction. Have fun, your friend Sadam Husien."
"Hmm..."
"Do you think it means anything, Vern?"
"Nah"
Posted by: David Rothman at April 2, 2005 4:11 PMFBI still stands for Full Blooming Idiots.
Let us just dispense with the intelligence services, perhaps subcontracting to Russia because they generally seem to get it right.
Posted by: bart at April 3, 2005 2:12 PM