Oklahoma City Bombing Witness To Be Freed

Michael Fortier, the prosecution's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, is scheduled to be released from federal prison Friday, victims' relatives said.

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Fortier served in the Army with bombing conspirators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. He was sentenced in 1998 to 12 years in prison for knowing about the bomb plot and not telling authorities.

He also pleaded guilty to helping McVeigh and Nichols move and sell stolen guns, and for lying to federal authorities after the Oklahoma City bombing. The 1995 attack destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and killed 168 people.

So the "star witness" in the prosecution on Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols is being released. A blip on the news radar.

Fortier and his wife, Lori, both testified against McVeigh and Nichols during their federal trials and acknowledged helping the pair in their plan to blow up the building, said McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones.

"It's intellectually indefensible to say that they weren't conspirators, because they were. Their own testimony indicates that," Jones said. "They knew the date, time and place of the bombing and both of them assisted materially."

What about Hussain Al-Hussaini? Never heard of him? I'm not surprised.

But perhaps you'd be interested to read about the long list of witnesses who saw Al-Hussaini with McVeigh repeatedly leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing. Not to mention those who saw him AT the Murrah Federal Building that morning. Or to read about how the FBI mysteriously dropped investigating him like a hot potato. Or to know that some time after the Oklahoma City bombing, Al-Hussaini moved to Boston and worked at Boston's Logan Airport -- where two flights would depart for their deadly mission on September 11, 2001 -- in the food handling department, where authorities suspect the box cutters used to take over the flights were smuggled on board.

Journalist Jayna Davis covered the Oklahoma City bombing from day one -- and met with extreme and persistent resistance in her efforts to investigate and report the truth.

Check out her book, The Third Terrorist, at her website. It's a must read.

Fortier's release is small news. The big news is Al-Hussaini, and the fact that most people have never heard of him.

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