Worth Reading (and psssst, it's free)

In January 1997, ABC 20/20 reported that the government had prior knowledge of the of the Oklahoma City bombing. In February, a Time magazine article reported that the ATF had advance warning from one of its own informants.

Shows how terrorist acts are used by the government to increase wiretapping, search and seizure, and invasive surveillance of private citizens.

The sheer volume of detailed evidence in this book about the U.S. government's unholy alliance with the terrorist underworld - and of a sting operation that led to the Oklahoma City bombing - will shock some people. At the same time, many readers will be relieved to finally hear the awful truth about the politics behind such acts of terror. Reporter David Hoffman spent two years investigating the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in which 169 people died in April, 1995. He carefully traces the government's case and discovers an amazing conspiracy and cover-up. His investigation leads to a number of revelations, including:

• A complex web of connections between bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols - via the American neo-Nazi movement - to a Middle Eastern terrorist cell that was actually responsible for the tragic blast.
• Links between Middle Eastern terrorists and the U.S. government via a little-reported resettlement program initiated by Presidents Bush and Clinton that brings former enemy Iraqi soldiers into the United States.
• The government's advance knowledge that the Federal Building might be bombed: an informant warned federal officials after she learned that her associates in the Aryan Republican Army were casing the Murrah Building and two other federal buildings.

The evidence goes even deeper. Hoffman found information about the government's behind-the-scenes involvement in other terrorist acts, which must be explained in order to understand the context of federal involvement in Oklahoma City. Hoffman uncovered parallels to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and even to the World Trade Center bombing in New York, and reveals the connections between the three in this book.

The book may be read here.

And damning evidence from the scene of the crime