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Friday, July 26, 2002
 
Timothy McVeigh Was Al-Qaeda

Or at least that is the impression that I came away with after reading this story about Mohammed Atta, Zacarias Moussaoui, and Timothy McVeigh all staying at the same hotel at the same time. Combine this story with the striking similarities (more in-depth discussion and evidence here) between the shoe bomber, Jose Padilla, and John Doe #2 from the early days of the OKC investigation, and it looks very much like the attack on the World Trade Center was not the first successful and devastating attack by Al-Qaeda on US soil.

I guess this could be used as an argument against the death penalty: if we hadn't killed McVeigh, then we would be able to further interrogate him now. But, from what I remember, he kept pretty tight-lipped about the whole thing anyway.