Posted Mar 10, 2011 @ 08:32 PM
Last update Mar 11, 2011 @ 09:36 AM
QUINCY — It was a routine call for Quincy police about two homeless men fighting. Hussain Al-Hussaini was arrested. The victim was taken to the hospital.
Then came the surprise. Readers commenting on a story about Wednesday’s arrest on The Patriot Ledger’s website noted that a man with the same name was mentioned prominently in a book about the deadly bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.
By Thursday afternoon, police had contacted the FBI and spoken to the book’s author.
Jayna Davis, author of the 2004 book “Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing,” said she asked a Quincy police detective if Hussain Al-Hussaini, the man police arrested, had a tattoo of an anchor with a snake wrapped around it. He did. Police sent her a photo of him.
“His age, his name, the picture, the mug shot – that’s him,” Davis told The Patriot Ledger via telephone after speaking with police. She said the anchor-and-snake tattoo was common among members of a branch of the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein.
An FBI spokesman in Boston, Greg Comcowich, said Thursday night that a man named Hussain Al-Hussaini was “thoroughly investigated” in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing and “was found to not have any role whatsoever in the attack on the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.”
Comcowich said the Hussain Al-Hussaini the FBI investigated had been seen with bomber Timothy McVeigh before the April 19, 1995, bombing, which killed 168 people.
“The investigation was closed and the FBI has no further interest in that individual,” he said…..
Read more: Author links man arrested in Quincy to the subject of her book on Oklahoma City bombing – Quincy, MA – The Patriot Ledger http://www.patriotledger.com/archive/x1777801225/Author-links-man-arrested-in-Quincy-to-the-subject-of-her-book-on-Oklahoma-City-bomb-ing#ixzz1GKiKHPV5
What do you think?
Thanks (to some of you) guess I should have rephrased the question for the peanut-gallery as *DO you think?* instead of “What do you think?”
I have no opinion on this at all as a matter of fact. That’s why I asked. I thought maybe some of you might know something about this guy. Thanks Gadfly for the research. It’s funny how the lefties Now trust govt so much isn’t it.
@ Scales..that’s what caught my attention when I read “The investigation was closed and the FBI has no further interest in that individual,” he said.
Yeah I hear you #1. A few minutes of looking at the news today is enough to give anyone a headache! Take a double shot and call us in the morning =)
@ Peace: Damn now that you mention it I do remember parts of that. It sure would be nice to see a hearing on this one instead of frigging steroids in baseball.
Thanks