Author links man arrested in Quincy to the subject of her book on Oklahoma City bombing

The author of a book on the Oklahoma City bombing says a homeless man arrested in Quincy on Wednes day is the same man identified by several witnesses to the bombing as having been with Timothy McVeigh before the deadly attack. But an FBI spokesman, Greg Comcowich, said a man named Hussain Al-Hussaini was "thoroughly investigated" and found to "not have any role whatsoever in the attack on the Murrah Federal Building in 1995." Comcowich did confirm that a man named Hussain Al-Hussaini had been seen with McVeigh prior to the bombing. Quincy Police on Thursday spoke with the author and notified the FBI of the arrest of Al-Hussaini for slash ing a man’s face with a beer bot tle. Capt. John Dougan said the man arrested in Quincy on Wednesday has the same name as a man featured prominently in the 2004 book “The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Both Dougan and the author of the Oklahoma City book said the man arrested in Quincy also has a tattoo on his arm that matches the description of one on the arm of the man in the book. “His age, his name, the picture, the mug shot, that’s him,” the author of “The Third Terrorist,” Jayna Davis, told The Patriot Ledger in a telephone interview...more