Let's take a look at what really happened at the Murrah building.
Do reports of "additional explosives found" appear in some official documents in the IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of the bombing? Yes, they do.
"Ooh, that's damning!"
Don't get excited. The CTers leave out a few details.
"So what are those reports about?"
Bomb scares. The scares were quickly cleared and rescue work resumed. No bombs or other explosives were found.
"Then what WAS removed from the site? Lots of eyewitnesses saw things being taken away by the bomb squads."
Dummy explosives used by the BATF for training exercises, and a shoulder-mounted TOW missile launcher, still in its shipping case, with an INERT warhead and a small amount of solid propellant.
"What? A missile launcher? See, I told you those government bastards were up to something!"
Yeah, they were up to catching criminals.
The missile was to be used in a "buy-and-bust" arms-purchasing sting operation.
I'm getting pretty sick of reading about CTers disparaging first responders who are doing exactly what they're supposed to do. Here, a typically classy CTer calls OK City police and fire dept. bomb squads "stupid."
Note that the reports of additional bombs are confirmed by the fire department. The suggestion that the bombs found in the Murrah Building were just practice bombs requires that the trained experts of the police and fire department bomb squads be too stupid to know real explosives from fake.
But it gets better. The trained experts of the police and fire department bomb squads used trained explosives sniffing dogs to locate those additional bombs, so not only did the devices found in the Murrah Building have to look enough like real bombs to fool the bomb squad, they had to SMELL LIKE REAL EXPLOSIVES TO THE BOMB SNIFFING DOGS!
Uh, yeah, that's sort of the point of practice explosives. If they didn't smell like explosives, dogs would have a pretty tough time sniffing them out, wouldn't they, Einstein?
And does this intellectual giant want us to believe that the fire department and police bomb squads should have looked at those devices and said, "Nah, don't worry about those"??? They shouldn't have ASSUMED that these could be dangerous devices and taken EVERY precaution to ensure the public's safety???
More info on the bomb scares:
A minimum of two subsequent "bomb scares" forced the evacuation of these personnel. The evacuation of the structure allowed officials to create a controlled perimeter around the dangerous site. Rescue workers were not allowed to re-enter the site until confirmation was given that no additional explosive devices were located.
1015: ODCEM Forward Operations reports a "bomb scare" at the site, resulting in the relocation of the Incident Command Post (ICP) to the southwest corner of N.W. 8th St. and Harvey Avenue.
10:28 a.m. - Rescuers find what they think is a second bomb. All rescuers are ordered to leave the building, and police clear a four-block area around the building. Police take this opportunity to establish a firm perimeter so they can allow only qualified rescuers back in the building.
11:22 a.m. - The bomb squad reports that there is no second bomb. The suspected bombs were simulators used in training.
Fiinal inspection, April 22: "The 61st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit completes inspection of the bomb site. No additional explosive devices are found."
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Here are some excerpts from the report of the Rescue Operations Chief on the site:
The first bomb scare, at approximately 10:30 a.m., gave us an opportunity to get control of the incident, and we did.
After the operational delay caused by the bomb scare at 10:30 a.m., we rotated 75 personnel in and out of the building.
We had not been back to work very long when another bomb threat evacuation was ordered. We were getting a little tired of this start-stop routine. So we went over to look at the “bomb,” which turned out to be a shoulder-carried missile that was still in its wooden box, as shipped. (With federal law enforcement agencies occupying parts of the building, it was not unusual to find weapons, etc. in the debris.) There wasn’t much to it. Most personnel vacated the building and went only across the street to the post office, awaiting the all-clear. We were out of the building for only a few minutes.
After the second bomb scare evacuation, we resumed our primary searches unimpeded throughout the afternoon and into the night.
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Report on OK City seismic data by the American Geophysical Union
"Second explosion" CT seismic theory debunked (Article contains a typo, should read 4,800 lbs, not 48,000.)
CTers "research" time: 11 years.
Gravy's "research" time: 45 minutes.
(Edited to point out that CTers have been promoting their swill since 1995, and to add AGU link. Additional "research" time: 5 minutes.)
Encore! Encore!
