Word: elohim
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...Glenn Wilburn lost two grandsons in the April 1995 blast that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building. Since that day, he has collected what he believes are leads abandoned by government investigators, hoping a grand jury will be impaneled to probe further. "All roads to Oklahoma City lead to Elohim City," says Wilburn, referring to a white-supremacist compound in the eastern part of the state. A telephone record he has collected (it was made public by the government) shows McVeigh calling Elohim City two weeks before the bombing. Although he offers no hard evidence, Wilburn contends that McVeigh...
...sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned him to the phone...
...after being approached by one of Jones' investigators, and surfaced later in Berlin. Reached there by phone last week, he denied any role in the bombing. He acknowledged that three years ago he bought some secondhand clothes from McVeigh at a Tulsa gun show and "probably" gave him an Elohim City business card. Otherwise, Strassmeir insists, they have not been in touch. "The only connection between me and McVeigh," he says, "is that I bought an old pair of pants from...
...that the cement of a conspiracy case? Well, says Jones, Strassmeir also knows Dennis Mahon, late of the Ku Klux Klan, now a leader of the White Aryan Resistance. Mahon sometimes spent weekends at Elohim City in a trailer he kept there, and Strassmeir sometimes stayed at Mahon's home in Tulsa. Jones says he has turned over to the prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says...
...Reported by Patrick E. Cole/Oklahoma City, James L. Graff/ Elohim City and Elaine Shannon/Washington