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...Middle East connection. For one thing, he is floating the idea that on the day before the bombing, Vince Cannistraro, the retired head of CIA counterterrorism operations, tipped the FBI to a terrorist attack planned by a Middle Eastern nation, possibly Iraq, against a U.S. facility, possibly the Murrah building. Not quite, corrects Cannistraro, who says the tip came to him on April 19, after the bombing, from a Saudi Arabian source he considered untrustworthy. Although he passed it on to the feds, it was with the warning that it was problematic. "Jones called me about this," says Cannistraro...
...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 either Mahon or his brother Daniel owns a brown pickup truck that resembles the one witnesses say fled the Murrah building minutes before the bombing...
...CHAIN LINK FENCE AROUND the grassy field where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood is a monument to suffering great and small. Dozens of mourners congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green...
Other victims have found it difficult to accept help. Cecil Elliott, who worked at a camera shop two blocks from the Murrah building, lost his best friend, his job, some of his hearing and his peace of mind in the blast. For months afterward, plagued by a constant ringing in one ear, he tormented himself over his first reaction to the explosion that threw him 15 feet onto his back. "I knew my friend was in the building,'' he says, choking up. "Your heart is saying, 'Get him out. He wouldn't leave you.' But your mind is saying...
...ones became virtually invisible as the media focused on the horror of the 19 children who died. "I am so tired of hearing about the 19 children," says Tina Tomlin, wearing a button with the picture of her smiling 46-year-old husband Rick, who was killed in the Murrah building. "There were 168 people killed, and they were all somebody's children. I can't even look at my mother-in-law before she starts to bawling...