The Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis

Author:Jayna Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

THE INSIDER

On June 7, 1995, KFOR-TV led the evening news with a landmark story featuring an unconventional partnership between a Desert Storm Bradley gunner and an ex-enemy combatant who once took up arms in defense of the barbarous Saddam Hussein. Rita Edwards, an Oklahoma City nurse, watched the broadcast in stunned disbelief. She was seated in a room filled with the very men Channel 4 had been investigating. When the disguised photographs of the unnamed Middle Eastern suspect appeared on the screen, one of the Iraqi spectators exclaimed, “That’s Hussain, he’s got my shirt on.”

That evening, Rita and the Iraqis visited a local nightclub. An inebriated Hussain Al-Hussaini turned hostile, throwing his ball cap into the air, barking proudly into the night sky, “Jayna Davis, come and get me! Jayna Davis, come and get me!”

The witness shrugged off the news report implicating Al-Hussaini as sensational journalism. She refused to entertain the notion she blindly ventured inside the nucleus of a terrorist cell. It was an affront to her sensibilities. After all, Rita considered herself an educated professional. Surely she would have detected the red flags. She had been socializing with these Arab immigrants for months. Her niece, Stacy McBride, was the live-in paramour of Majid Ajaj, a self-professed “deserter” from the Iraqi army.

But with the passage of time, nagging doubts tugged at Rita’s conscience. Sinister implications began to overshadow seemingly benign events and conversations. She learned the FBI had interrogated Stacy and her boyfriend Majid about Al-Hussaini’s alibi for the morning of April 19. Shaken by the interview, a hysterical Majid confided to Rita he was concerned federal investigators would discover his outstanding arrest warrant for failing to show up in court after being charged with driving while intoxicated in Hutchinson, Kansas—a town just south of McPherson where the Denver jury determined bombing suspect Terry Nichols purchased the ammonium nitrate fertilizer used to construct the Murrah Building bomb. A law enforcement source confirmed Majid’s Kansas arrest, but when I requested a copy of the driving citation from municipal officials, the record had been expunged for reasons unknown.

As Rita became more reflective, perplexing questions left her all the more suspicious. “Were Al-Hussaini and his Iraqi friends truly ‘dissidents’ or were they just posing as enemies of the state to gain political asylum in the U.S.?” she pondered. Rita could not understand why they never openly condemned Saddam, yet they had spun sensational, far-fetched tales of harrowing escapes from the Iraqi dictator’s death squads. More curious, the band of ex-soldiers harbored unabashed, deep-seated hatred against the United States, the country which had granted them safe haven and taxpayer monies for resettlement.

After contacting me, the troubled witness unburdened herself, disclosing secrets only an insider would know. Flashing back to the fall of 1994, Rita described the influx of Hussain Al-Hussaini and his Iraqi confederates who sought employment doing janitorial and menial fix-it duties at Dr. Anwar Abdul’s property management company. She was deeply puzzled by their unexplained source of funding. The minimum

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