Jayna Davis Biography

In 1986, Jayna Davis graduated at the top of her class from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Broadcast Journalism. During her twelve-year career as a television reporter, Jayna worked as a news anchor, general assignments and investigative reporter, producer, and videotape editor. She entered the broadcast industry at KXII-TV in Sherman, Texas, then moved eastward to KLTV in Tyler, where she received critical acclaim statewide for her achievements in general assignments and medical reporting.

In 1991, Jayna reached the pinnacle of her career when she joined the news team at KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, the third largest NBC affiliate in the country. In 1993, Jayna found her niche in Oklahoma City when KFOR-TV hired her to spearhead the station's investigative news unit. During her four years at Channel 4, Jayna earned several awards, including "Best Investigative Report" from the Oklahoma Associated Press in 1994 and the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters in 1995.

Moments after 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Jayna found herself staring at the smoldering shell of the Alfred P. Murrah Building with a photographer by her side recording the unspeakable bloodshed and carnage. The horrifying images were broadcast via satellite to the world, documenting America's deadliest terrorist attack of the 20^th century.

Within twenty-four hours, KFOR-TV's news director tapped Jayna to cover the FBI's international manhunt for the elusive John Doe 2. Initially, the Justice Department was desperate to find the mysterious Middle East suspect, but for unexplained reasons, abruptly abandoned its pursuit of the third terrorist. Did he even exist? Eyewitnesses assured Jayna that he did.

On June 7, 1995, KFOR-TV broadcast its first story in which witnesses identified the disgruntled Gulf War veteran, Timothy McVeigh, drinking beer with a swarthy, soft-spoken foreigner in an Oklahoma City tavern. Those brief moments of television history launched Jayna's decade long quest to unveil the Middle East's hand in the heartland massacre. In 2001, she founded a non-profit corporation, Journalists' Committee for Justice, Inc, which has carried on the mission to seek justice for those who perished.

In April 2004, Nelson Current Publishers released the New York Times best-seller, The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Jayna's book outlines a riveting body of facts that convincingly links the Oklahoma City bombers to an Iraqi/Al-Qaeda hit squad, operating under Iranian state sponsorship. Why do questions still swirl around the official account of April 19, 1995? A CNN/USA Today poll reveals that 68 percent of Americans believe other bombing conspirators are still out there, somewhere. "I found them," writes Jayna Davis, "hiding in plain sight."

With a journalist's practiced skill, the author recounts her amazing journey leading from the smoking rubble of the Murrah Federal Building to the sleazy haunts of John Doe 2. McVeigh's Middle Eastern cohorts have been solidly identified in dozens of sworn witness statements - firsthand accounts which are corroborated by a methodically assembled investigative dossier.

The most incriminating testimony centers around former Iraqi soldier, Hussain Al-Hussaini, whom witnesses place in the company of bomber Timothy McVeigh prior to the blast, seated in the passenger seat of the Ryder truck the morning of April 19, exiting that truck at ground zero, and speeding away from the bomb site in the only getaway vehicle targeted by the FBI in an all-points-bulletin for Middle Eastern suspects. Al-Hussaini has been unable to establish his whereabouts for the critical hours of that fateful morning, and more glaringly, the Justice Department has declined to officially exonerate him of suspicion.

Deconstructing the murky past of the accused paves a trail of clues leading from the plains of Oklahoma to the sands of Iraq. Hussain Al-Hussaini, a self-professed insurrectionist, told the press that he had been imprisoned for publicly criticizing the Butcher of Baghdad. But Al-Hussaini's woeful tale of "persecution" under the tyrannical reign of ousted Iraqi despot, Saddam Hussein, does not stand up to scrutiny.

Was the Iraqi expatriate a dissident or disciple? After copious examination of Al-Hussaini's immigration records and his emblematic military tattoos, defense analysts have reached a disquieting determination: the man, whom witnesses named as the infamous third terrorist, was not a rank-and-file infantryman. Colonel Patrick Lang, a Middle East expert who formerly served as the chief of human intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency, believes Hussain Al-Hussaini would have been counted among Saddam's elite fighting forces.

"Our conclusion would be that this guy (Al-Hussaini) had been a member of either the Special Troops Division of the Iraqi Military Intelligence or the Adnan Division of the Republican Guard," Colonel Lang firmly asserted. The ex-military intelligence chief postulated that Al-Hussaini's purported history as a political dissenter was "complete nonsense," but the story, in his opinion, served as a clever means to facilitate infiltration into the United States as a false defector and Iraqi intelligence agent. "This guy is clearly not a refugee ... none of that fits with his tattoo."

"I have compared this (Jayna Davis' investigation) to all human intelligence I have looked at, and in comparing that to classified material, this is not just one witness. This is not just two witnesses. You're talking about twenty-three people," stated Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and deputy director of counterterrorism for the U.S. Department of State. In March 2002, Johnson succinctly summarized the enormity of evidence implicating the Middle East before a nationwide audience.

"You're talking about at least ten people that put Tim McVeigh with Hussain Al-Hussaini before the Oklahoma City bombing. Two people who identify Hussain Al-Hussaini (with McVeigh) in a bar on April 15. Three people who identify Hussaini Al-Hussaini running from the federal building early in the morning of April 19 at 5:30 A.M. as he is practicing timing himself. You have two witnesses that put Tim McVeigh with Hussain Al-Hussaini in the Ryder truck. You have one witness inside the Murrah Building who sees Hussain Al-Hussaini getting out of the truck... .and he is seen driving away from the building," Johnson declared on the Fox News Channel, "My concern is that this angle was never pursued, and to this day, the FBI has refused to exonerate this man. They have refused to go out and check out his alibis."

Dozens of witnesses firmly implicate Hussain Al-Hussaini and a cabal of Iraqi soldiers colluding with the convicted bombers during the months, weeks, days and final moments leading up to detonation. The heart-wrenching truth behind April 19 would be forever memorialized by a small cadre of average Oklahomans - unsuspecting bystanders who unwittingly witnessed the most critical stages of an Islamic terrorist plot to murder more Americans in a single explosion, than the total number of U.S. soldiers who died on the battlefields of the Persian Gulf War.

Tracking Timothy McVeigh's footprints in this harrowing act of state-sponsored terror came with relative ease compared to unscrambling the rubic's cube enveloping his crafty accomplice, Terry Nichols. During his federal and state trials, jurors looked upon the seemingly devoted family man as an unwilling dupe who became entangled in McVeigh's web of control. While being pronounced guilty of mass murder, Nichols assumed the role of the betrayed patsy. That characterization enabled him to escape execution - not once, but twice. How did a terrorist collaborator in the slaughter of 171 innocents cheat death? Malice and motive. Both factor into the criminal equation and both were absent from the prosecution's case.

While apprised of the bomber's travels to the Philippines to wed his mail-order bride, Marife Torres, jurors were ignorant of the more sinister motives behind his South Pacific forays. They would hear not a whisper about the secret life of the small-time Kansas farmer, a man of modest means who spared no expense to take pricey flights to the international breeding ground for Muslim extremism.

In 1996, Jayna played an instrumental role in helping McVeigh's lawyers uncover Nichols' Philippine liaisons with the world's most nefarious brokers of terror. Although the evidence remains under court seal, the author has obtained secret filings which include the sworn statement of Edwin Angeles, the co-founder of Abu-Sayyaf, the Southeast Asian spin-off chapter of Al-Qaeda. Angeles insisted that he attended a meeting in the early 1990s on the island of Mindanao in which Terry Nichols discussed bomb making with Osama bin Laden's chief explosives trainer - Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center.

The bombing defendants' phone records further connect the dots between the Pacific Far East and the American Midwest. In an attempt to cover their tracks, Nichols and McVeigh obtained a telephone debit card issued under the alias "Daryl Bridges" to purchase bomb components. They also used the card to make a series of cryptic calls to pay phones and untraceable numbers in the Philippines from pay phones in Kansas. FBI records document two hundred calls to the South Pacific islands, seventy-eight of which were placed to a Cebu City boarding house that sheltered students from a local university well known for Islamic militancy.

On December 11, 1994, just four months before the Murrah Building attack, Nichols and the ruthless Ramzi Yousef were both staying in Cebu City. Did the two men cross paths? Did the angry American learn the macabre genius of terrorist bomb making from Osama's fanatical field general? While a stunned nation watched televised images of bloodied victims streaming from the federal complex, Abdul Hakim Murad, Yousef's devotee and imprisoned co-defendant in a failed plot to blow up U.S. jetliners over Manila, confessed to the FBI that Philippine-based terrorists were complicit in the Oklahoma bombing.

A decade later, in June 2005, during a rare face-to-face meeting, California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher confronted the Oklahoma City bomber with his suspicious travels and overseas calls to the Philippines. With a broad-brush, blanket denial, Nichols shrugged off the litany of evidentiary facts linking him to bin Laden's operatives, calling the alleged connection "baloney." Yet, astonishingly, in the next breath, the bespectacled terrorist cracked the door open to Middle Eastern complicity in an act of terror which history had recorded as domestically inspired.

When asked to assess the plausibility of the multiple witness sightings placing Timothy McVeigh with Iraqi soldiers in Oklahoma City, Nichols shockingly conceded that the central theory presented in The Third Terrorist "could be correct."

Beyond that, America's most notorious mass murderer, who is currently housed in the same Colorado maximum security prison as his reputed Al-Qaeda explosives instructor, Ramzi Yousef, claimed he had "no specific knowledge" of foreign conspirators. According to Rohrabacher's account of the jailhouse interview, Nichols disclosed that "McVeigh talked about Middle Easterners on a number of occasions, and quite frequently," but he "could not remember the context of those discussions and he (Nichols) never met personally with Arabs in Oklahoma City."

Nichols confirmed the existence of John Doe 2, but hesitated to "speculate" on the identities of the third terrorist and additional henchmen of Middle Eastern extraction. The Oklahoma City bomber depicted his executed accomplice, Timothy McVeigh, as a threatening, controlling master who compartmentalized the names of other participants, which Nichols claimed remained unknown to him.

In addition to Nichols? remarkable admission that Jayna's witnesses have shared accurate information, The Third Terrorist has been vetted and endorsed by a host of pre-eminent intelligence, defense, and legal experts, including former CIA Director James Woolsey.

"This fascinating product of Jayna Davis' near-decade of brave, thorough, and dogged investigative reporting effectively shifts the burden of proof to those who would still contend that McVeigh and Nichols executed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing without the support of a group or groups from the Middle East," said DCI Woolsey.

David P. Schippers, former Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, stated unequivocally: "There is contained in this book not one fact, not one allegation, not one accusation, not one conclusion that is not supported by evidence sufficient to constitute proof in a court of law... The Third Terrorist may well turn out to be perhaps the most vital expose of the young 21^st century."

In May 2005, Mr. Schippers, a former federal prosecutor who scored convictions against a number of high profile organized crime figures under U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, conducted videotaped interviews with the principal witnesses featured in The Third Terrorist. With the acumen of a seasoned litigator of more than four decades, the Chicago lawyer probed the witnesses' memories, testing their veracity and character under tough cross-examination.

Afterward, Mr. Schippers shared his evaluation with several high-ranking congressional leaders who have expressed interest in Jayna's investigative work. "Given the credibility of these witnesses, I could get an indictment with just one day of testimony before a grand jury," he averred.

The April 2005 paperback release of The Third Terrorist features stirring updates and newly uncovered intelligence that frames April 19, 1995 as the explosion that sounded the Islamist declaration of war. Jayna's seminal research bears more relevance today in defining future threats to national security than ten years ago when a Middle Eastern truck bomb shattered America - killing and wounding hundreds of men, women, and children.

Was 4-19 the precursor for 9-11? Among the many riveting discoveries outlined in The Third Terrorist are court records that suggest one of McVeigh's and Nichols' accused Middle Eastern handlers harbored alarming foreknowledge of the September 11 plot.

In a disquieting moment of candor, Hussain Al-Hussaini, the former Iraqi Republican Guardsman whom multiple witnesses identified as McVeigh's shadowy accomplice, confided to his psychiatrist that he was anxious about a dire event to occur at his place of employment' Boston Logan International Airport.

"If something happens there [Boston Logan], I will be a suspect," Al-Hussaini presaged. The Iraqi soldier disclosed this unsettling omen in November 1997 - four years before radical Islamists hijacked two planes from that very airport. Minutes later, they would meet their infernal demise in the heavenly blue skies enveloping New York City.

Did the failure to examine the Middle Eastern signature in the Oklahoma City bombing embolden Islamist extremists in their unhindered mission to commit wholesale murder on a scale the world had never seen? In a gripping and intensely personal account, the veteran broadcast reporter relives how the FBI stonewalled her repeated attempts to turn over witness affidavits in a brazen failure to examine evidence that implicated Iraqi ex-enemy combatants. Several governmental sources view Jayna's documentation as the silver bullet that might have prevented Al-Qaeda's homicidal wrath of 2001.

"What they (the FBI) did was unconscionable," FBI Special Agent Dan Vogel said as he reflected upon the FBI's outrageous refusal to investigate the testimony memorialized in the twenty-two affidavits. "The American people deserved the truth and the Bureau needed to look into this Middle East network in Oklahoma City. If they had, maybe they would have come upon the network behind the September 11 attacks."

In February 2005, the nation's leading intelligence officials cautioned Congress that Al-Qaeda terrorists will likely strike the homeland again - soon. The law enforcement community is bracing for a succession of Oklahoma-style truck bombings - the nightmare of April 19 revisited.

Preventing the next wave of attacks presents a daunting challenge. Why? The would-be killers have virtually vanished from the law enforcement radar screen. Washington decision-makers have finally recognized that the "face of Al-Qaeda may be changing." Islamic sleeper agents in the U. S. are actively enlisting non-Arabs, non-Muslims, and disaffected Americans of all ethnicities to carry out future operations. These homegrown militants are known throughout the intelligence community as "lily white" recruits.

Jayna is arguably the first journalist to publicly document this merging, unholy alliance between polar opposite extremists. Her book exclusively features a classified prior warning that prognosticated in the spring of 1995 that an "Iran-sponsored Islamic attack" would likely take place on U.S. soil, executed by "domestic" operatives.

Eighteen months of intelligence gathering from multiple informants embedded throughout the Middle East led the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare to sound the silent alarm. On February 27, 1995, Task Force Director Yossef Bodansky alerted the FBI and a multiple federal law enforcement agencies that an international terrorism offensive, sponsored by "Iran and Syria," was imminent. Washington, D.C. topped the hit list. The primary targets were Congress and the White House, a chilling foreshadowing of the infernal events of 9-11.

After the bulletin was disseminated to authorities, increased security measures stymied the terrorists' original strategy to strike the nation's capitol, but did not diminish their resolve. A contingency plot immediately shifted the focus from Washington, D.C, taking direct aim at the American Midwest.

On March 3, 1995, the Task Force chief authored an updated warning that predicted the Islamists had recruited "two lily whites" to bomb an American federal building in the "heart of the U.S." Twelve cities, including Oklahoma City, were placed on the list of likely targets because of the radical Islamic groups and terrorist networks operating within those metropolitan areas.

"I did get, and later confirmed by numerous sources, certain criteria on how to better identify potential terrorist targets, but by the time I mastered this "method," it was too late for Oklahoma City," Bodansky somberly conceded in private correspondence to Jayna, reiterating that the Task Force lacked the specific information needed to stop the bomb. "However, going over and reconstructing relevant data, some of which arrived only after the bombing but had originated prior to the bombing, Oklahoma City was on the list of terrorist targets."

The Congressional Task Force pre-April 19 alerts hinged upon the revolutionary concept that the expanding terrorism trade was attracting strange bedfellows and unlikely allies. The visionary analyst had isolated an inventive recruiting tool designed to vastly broaden the global pool of assassins. Yossef Bodansky believed that the Islamist networks were planning to enlist "lily whites" in order to minimize detection in the forthcoming heartland attack. Law enforcement would never suspect homegrown malcontents like the Oklahoma City bombers of aligning forces with Arab terrorists.

In 1995, the intelligentsia did not deem the "Bodansky Doctrine" conceivable. What a colossal miscalculation! Such an unholy alliance proved morbidly successful when lily whites, McVeigh and Nichols, conspired to detonate what Israeli bomb experts would later dub the truck bomb with a "distinct Middle Eastern signature."

The Congressional Task Force director's "outside-the-box" thinking a decade ago exposed the deadly fusion between radicalized Muslims and anti-government zealots - an epidemic trend to which the FBI declined to publicly lend credence until the post 9-11 era. The Third Terrorist exposes the 1995 Oklahoma bombing as a successful test run for "lily white" recruitment in the morphing face of international terrorism.

Fox News talk show host, John Gibson, explored the dark motivations behind McVeigh's silent passage into the grave, uttering not a word to implicate his Iraqi partners in crime in order to avoid execution.

"Why wouldn't McVeigh say anything about his Iraqi pal, if it were true? I think McVeigh was happy to go to his death as a martyr in the anti-big-government movement, but he was not willing to die as a collaborator with the enemy he fought in the Gulf War. That is treason and would have deeply embarrassed Tim McVeigh," Gibson ruminated during his string of commentaries regarding Jayna's investigation. "Now, maybe somebody should find Mr. Al-Hussaini. We need to go over a few things with him once and for all."

The lead defense counsel for McVeigh's federal trial, Stephen Jones, disclosed that his client failed a polygraph examination when he denied that several unidentified conspirators aided and abetted in the construction of the truck bomb.

"I believe Timothy McVeigh? s role in the Oklahoma City bombing was a very minor one," Mr. Jones postulated in a nationally televised interview in 2003. "A member of the conspiracy? Yes. The leader? No. The financier? No. The organizer? No. Timothy McVeigh saw his role as the cover for everybody else, to be the person to fall on the sword. It served deep-seated emotional needs that he had, and it furthered the role of the conspiracy."

While Terry Nichols adamantly denies colluding with Muslim extremists, his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, cleverly hinted at his deep-seated sympathies for Middle

Eastern terror groups hostile to the United States. In an April 2001 letter to Fox News, McVeigh made known his tacit approval for the crimes committed by Ramzi Yousef, the sinister engineer of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He shamelessly quoted the Muslim terrorist's statement to a New York court before sentencing.

"Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government," Yousef proclaimed during the January 1998 hearing. However, this telling reference was not the first time McVeigh ardently defended the murderous actions of our Middle Eastern adversaries.

In March 1998, McVeigh's ire ignited as U.S. troops gathered in the Persian Gulf to launch air strikes if Saddam Hussein continued to block the United Nations' inspections of his weapons arsenal. The veteran of Operation Desert Storm fired off a jarring salvo from his death row cell. In a published essay, which received little fanfare, the ex-Army sergeant expressed unabashed disapproval of the U.S. bombing of Baghdad during the Gulf War in which he donned the American military uniform. Brimming with righteous indignation, he passionately argued the Iraqi dictator's justification for "stockpiling weapons of mass destruction" in order to protect his people against neighboring hostile nations.

In April 1995, ABC's Prime Time Live aired a segment in which a former army acquaintance, who bunked with McVeigh during the Gulf War, stated "Tim always wanted to become a mercenary," preferably for the Middle East because "he said they paid the best."

During a rare television interview with 60 Minutes, McVeigh castigated American foreign policy in the wake of the 1998 cruise missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for Osama bin Laden's bombing of the U.S. embassies in Africa. But for years, McVeigh's empathy for the arch-terrorist bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Saddam Hussein would remain unexplored, that is, until The Third Terrorist laid bare his treasonous collusion with the enemy he once fired upon as a decorated Bradley gunner.

Jayna's rigorous investigative work has garnered her appearances on a variety of network news programs including the Fox News Channel's The O? Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Live, and CNN's Lou Dobbs.

In more than one hundred radio interviews, the award-winning journalist and author has captivated audiences coast-to-coast from New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and many others.

Jayna has shared expert commentary on the Oklahoma City bombing with America's most popular syndicated radio hosts including Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Bob Grant, Roger Hedgecock, Doug Stephan, Barbara Simpson, G. Gordon Liddy, Blanquita Cullum, Ken Hamblin, Point of View with Kirby Anderson, and America at Night with Ernie Brown.

America's oldest and most respected newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, dedicated months to the critical examination of Jayna's research, endorsing her credibility in a September 5, 2002 editorial and accompanying five-thousand word article entitled, "The Iraq Connection." Former CIA Director James Woolsey told the Journal, "When the full stories of these two incidents (the 1993 World Trade Center attack and 1995 Oklahoma bombing) are finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big explanations to these two brave women (Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie and journalist Jayna Davis). And the nation will owe them a debt of gratitude."

The Wall Street Journal's high profile acknowledgment of Jayna's extraordinary findings has propelled coverage from news outlets across the country, such as the Washington Times with columnist and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney, Jr., the London Evening Standard, LA Weekly, Indianapolis Star, Philadelphia Daily News with columnist and radio talk show host Michael Smerconish, Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy magazine, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, FrontPage Magazine, Military.com, and the Washington, D.C. think tank, the Center for Security Policy. A complete library of these articles can be accessed at www.JaynaDavis.com.