David Koresh and the Temple of Doom

Contrary to popular belief (as well as those who defend the 1990's presidency voraciously) the events of 9-11 are not, as one friend told me, past history, nor were the events of 9-11 the first attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor, no matter what Andrea Mitchell and Keith Olbermann would have you believe.

It was actually number 5. With apologies to all you who flunked elementary math, first Arab attack was the WTC in February of 1993, number three was the embassies in Africa, the fourth was the USS Cole, and the fifth....yes the fifth...1-2-3-4-5....was 9-11.

This is a partial story of number 2. Fasten your seat belts, and kids under 48 inches not allowed on this ride.

Zacarias Moussaoui, dubbed the "20th 9-11 hijacker" by federal prosecutors, would have been released from federal custody before the 9-11 attacks if not for the heroic persistence of field agents in the FBI’s Minneapolis office. Agent Coleen Rowley and members of her FBI team carried on a running fight with top FBI and Justice Department officials who tried to stop the Minnesota investigation and prevented a search of his laptop computer until after his fellow conspirators crashed their hijacked planes on September 11.

There are many important, unanswered questions concerning Moussaoui. For instance: Why have federal officials pointedly ignored publicly available facts showing that most of the $64,000 he received from Al-Qaeda/Al Qaeda Linked sources was spent in the Oklahoma City area, where he attended the Airman Flight School in nearby Norman. The largest chunk of Moussaoui’s funds, $35,000, was provided by al-Qaeda paymaster Yazid Sufaat, one of the principal hosts of the secret al-Qaeda planning meeting for 9-11 in Malaysia. Moussaoui, according to federal authorities, was operating under the direction of al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who met in the Philippines with his nephew, 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, during the same time period that Yousef was meeting with an American named Terry Nichols, also in the Philippines.

September 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah’s ticket (United Airlines Flight 93) was purchased from a computer terminal at Oklahoma University in Norman. Moussaoui was a frequent visitor to the OU campus, worked out at the OU gym and recruited OU student Hussain Al-Attas. September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, a member of al-Qaeda’s cell in Hamburg, Germany, visited the same Norman, Oklahoma, flight school that Moussaoui attended.

Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma...over and again. Strange place for a former African American turned Muslim zealot to hang out, don't you think?

Perhaps the most important "coincidence" concerning Moussaoui is his connection to convicted felon Melvin Lattimore, a convert to Islam who now goes by the name Majahid Abdulquaadir Menepta.

Lattimore/Menepta’s credit card was used to help finance the 1993 World Trade Center bombing directed by Ramzi Yousef.

Federal ATF Agent Jeffrey Whitney has testified in court that one day after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI informant told FBI superiors that Menepta should be considered a top suspect in the Oklahoma attack.

Several employees at Travelers Aid, one block from the Murrah Building, identified Menepta as entering the Travelers Aid office with three other men the day before the Oklahoma City bombing. Two of the men accompanying Menepta were identified as closely resembling associates of an American named Timothy McVeigh, and one of the witnesses positively identified the vehicle that the group drove away in as Mr. McVeigh’s beat-up Mercury Marquis.

Menepta was a member of a militant mosque in St. Louis and is now a member of a radical mosque in Norman, where he says he saw Moussaoui on a daily basis. According to Oklahoma news accounts, Menepta and Moussaoui were roommates in Norman, while Moussaoui attended flight school.

Menepta’s roommate, Al-Attas, drove Moussaoui from Oklahoma to Minnesota to begin flight school there. When Al-Attas was arrested, Menepta drove to Minnesota and posted $5,000 bail for his release.

When Menepta and Al-Attas returned to Norman on August 21, 2001, more than three weeks before 9-11, agents from the Oklahoma City FBI office knocked on their apartment door. According to the agents, several men fled the apartment and exited the building before the agents could react. Also, according to FBI documents, 9-11 hijacker Salem Al-Hazmi was seen in Menepta’s Norman apartment in April 2001.


Menepta was arrested one month after the 9-11 attacks as a material witness and possible co-conspirator. Menepta vigorously defended Moussaoui as a "scapegoat."

Gloria Smith, who managed the office of a charitable organization called "The Travelers Aid Association"... one block from the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, told FBI agents that Melvin Lattimore/Menepta came to her office with other men in Timothy McVeigh’s car. A federal ATF agent has testified in court that one day after the bombing an undercover informant fingered Menepta as the top suspect. Mrs. Smith, who has no desire for fame in this affair, nor does she have an agenda, swore under oath TEN TIMES she witnessed what she witnessed. But he was never arrested for shit.

The story goes on and on. The FBI "lost" the transcripts of Mrs. Smiths 10...that's correct...10 interviews. They lost all 10. There were other documents that pertained to material evidence that were lost or "misfiled" and therefore never came out as public information. What bad luck, huh? Gee... Whitewater and blowjobgate were going on during these times as well. No point in any loose ends or security messiness being brought up in the mid to late 90's. Nawwww.

So what we have is a discharged buck sergeant (three stripes) from the Army who had no apparent employment, hanging out with a farmer from Minnesotta who didn't farm, AND---ALL----BY---THEMSELVES---they had the financial wherewithal to buy all the materials needed to bring down a semi-sky scraper, take trips all over the US, take trips to the Philippines, rent all kinds of vehicles, stay at semi-expensive hotels, eat, and whatever else
they needed, but the administration of the 1990's would have us believe this was some angry white supremacist hell-bent on avenging some retard in Waco, Tx. C'mon...even the dumbest of you out there know "no ticky, no laundry", and as far as the records indicate, McVeigh and Nichols weren't buying on credit. Where was the ENORMOUS amounts of UNTRACEABLE CASH coming from?

Lastly, there is this business of total silence, and I mean TOTAL FUCKING SILENCE, even on his death gurney. If he did what he did for what they said he did, why wouldn't he proclaim it to the world, at least on the day he died? You pull a shitstorm and shove it right up the US Governments ass, and you don't want to claim it? You don't want to go on CNN and laugh? Intead...you die tight-lipped?

And speaking of dying, isn't the national average for death row something like 20+ years? It certainly isn't 4 years after a conviction...but it was here. My, my...that sure was fast. You would think someone in D.C. had sweaty palms or something.

You know what, I've concluded my research is full of shit. The broke Buck Sergeant and the non-farming farmer did it. It must have been an inheritance that no one has heard of.

Or...?

Authors note: If you don't understand the significance of the title, "David Korsh and the Temple of Doom"....go away.