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The Third Terrorist
Written by Jayna Davis
Narrated by Jerry Sciarrio
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Within hours of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the FBI had evidence pointing to Iraqi and Islamic extremists. But incredibly, federal authorities quickly squelched all investigations implicating Middle Eastern suspects. In this electrifying new book, award-winning investigative reporter, Jayna Davis, shares a gripping and intensely personal account of her arrival on the scene thirteen minutes after the blast, the worldwide search for suspects, and the abrupt and unexplained abandonment of the manhunt for John Doe #2. Did he even exist? Eyewitnesses assured Davis that he did identifying him down to the distinctive tattoo on his arm, and his Middle Eastern connections led directly to Saddam Hussein's elite fighting forces, the Republic Guard. Stonewalled by officials, Davis followed her own leads into an activated terrorist cell on U.S. soil, high-level intelligence sources, and classified government leaks. What she uncovered rivals the plot of any spy novel, and is the shocking truth every American has the right to know.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5All stupid propaganda just like they that Iraq possessed chemical weapons . Stop fabricating history
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5***SpoilerAlert***"The April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building became the 20th century's deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil" (pg. 23). The same day, "CBS News reported that eight organizations contacted the FBI, professing responsibility for the heartland strike." (pg. 32). It was from this angle that Jayna Davis began her investigation. "The Third Terrorist: the Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," was written to communicate her position--that the United States Government behaved in a manner to suppress evidence, ignore opportunities and allow Middle East suspects to escape punishment while they continued to victimize people who could identify them.
The author addressed that a few government agencies (and possibly The Press) received information pertaining to the Oklahoma City (OKC) bombing plot several days prior to the blast. The threat was narrowed down to destruction of a federal building in OKC; but, neither a specific structure nor a particular event date had been part of the information. Davis did an outstanding job of capturing the extent of the blast's shockwave, providing a sample of how victim and rescue workers were effected and the retelling of each witness' timeline in relation to the bombing. She communicated how they identified the Middle East connection and established an understanding of the numerous tentacles to this historical event. I could not think of another author who ever conveyed so many different people's experiences and perspectives so clearly without causing reader confusion.
When Davis started getting hints from reliable, powerful sources that she needed stop her investigation or not pursue a specific lead, my gut feeling was that there was a much bigger picture that caused her to be rebuffed. People were trying to protect her! The situation was bigger, and it was much graver, than the bombing in OKC. There seemed to be an insurmountable amount of tangential knowledge that revealed many terrorist cells and networks in the United States and worldwide. They shared the common goal of destroying America at all costs.
While the author intended to show that the U.S. government acted negligently (and, I could see how easy it would be to believe this position), her book actually caused the opposite to occur with me. It created an appreciation for the magnitude of information and work that federal and local government employees must contend with and investigate to combat the constant barrage of heinous acts from world-wide fundamentalist and terrorist organizations. Sometimes there were pieces of evidence that muddled the picture necessary for the conviction of one of the suspects. Other times it was necessary to put aside evidence and quiet things down to possibly "flip" a bad guy in order to penetrate a much larger network. It was dirty work; but, when the enemy played dirty, our government had to fight back dirty.
As a civilian I do not always like, nor understand, the big picture; but I do not need to fully comprehend it at that moment in time. It is not a perfect system; nothing ever is, but I do have to respect it.
However, Jayna Davis did not seem to respect boundaries. I could not help but wonder if the author put more people in the path of danger with her blatant disregard for the warnings that some of her sources gave her. She wrote a high-caliber (and undoubtedly difficult) piece, but her defiance did not earn my respect either. She gets to reap the deserved rewards of income as a strong writer but she carries a notoriety that shall be difficult to overcome. Meanwhile, some of her sources get to spend the rest of their lives living in fear, always looking over their shoulders.