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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 403
later denied having made any such statements.
1536
The OCBIC heard testimony from many who had received advance notice of the
bombing besides ATF informant Howe. The commission heard testimony that the “Oklahoma
City Fire Department received a call from the FBI the Friday before the bombing and was told to
be on the alert for a possible terrorist attack on a government building.”
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A terrorism expert,
Dr. Randall Heather, was interview by a local TV station, KFOR, in the immediate aftermath of
the bombing. He “was quoted as saying that he was aware that the FBI received a [bombing]
threat the previous week,” the report noted.
1538
Among other testimony heard by the commission
concerned the advance knowledge admitted by both Judge Alley and Congressman Istook.
1539
A book written by Martin Keating is an astounding and weird twist to the evidence of
prior knowledge. Martin is the brother of Governor Frank Keating, a former Justice Department
official and FBI agent. Martin wrote Final Jihad in 1991 over four years before the bombing. In
the novel a man named Tom McVey master minds the bombing of the Oklahoma City Building.
In the novel Tom is arrested after being stopped by an Oklahoma highway patrolman for a
broken tail light. In real life, Timothy McVeigh was stopped and arrested by an Oklahoma
highway patrolman for a missing license plate.
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Where Were The ATF?
The ATF office at the Murrah Federal Building had 15 or 16 employees; none were
present on the morning of the bombing.
1541
Representative Key's states that after the bombing a
frantic Bruce Shaw went to the federal building to search through the ruble for his wife. He was
told by an ATF agent at the scene, “You won't find any ATF agents in the building because they
were warned on their pagers not to come in this morning and they're now in a debriefing.”
Shaw's account of the incident was corroborated by his boss who had accompanied him to help
him search for his wife.
1542
Two witnesses appearing on the Channel 4 news in Oklahoma City reported similar
encounters. One person said he was told by a ATF agent that he had gotten a message on his
pager telling him not to come into work on the morning of the bombing.
1543
Early On The Scene
Before the bomb went off in Oklahoma City, key people were already in place ready to
respond. It's possible they arrived early to do damage control or conceal key evidence. One of
those alleged to have arrived early was Danny Coulson, then-director of the FBI's Terrorist Task
Force. A hotel receipt obtained by WorldNet Daily.com showed that Coulson checked into the
Embassy Suites Hotel in Oklahoma City approximately nine hours before the bomb went off.
Coulson had made public statements to the contrary. He had reported that he was house hunting
with his wife in Texas at the time of the bombing and drove straight to Oklahoma City when he
got the news.
1544
Evidence that the bomb squad was at the scene of the bombing before the bomb actually
went off has been collected by Glenn and Kathy Wilburn. The Wilburn's lost two grandchildren
in the explosion and were very much interested in getting the truth of what happened. They have
conducted over 300-hours of taped interviews of witness testimony; many of these were
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