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 The man who then rented the 1,300-square-foot house in Knoxville
says Strassmeir never actually lived there - spending the night
only once. But Ray Woodruff says Strassmeir was welcome because
he was a like-minded "patriot," concerned about a government
conspiracy to "take away our guns and invade our homes." Woodruff
says he is on the board of advisers for the national Council for
Conservative Citizens.
 Woodruff, who now lives in Sevierville, Tenn., says he met
Strassmeir at Lyon's home and offered to let him use his address.
Woodruff says he has not talked to Strassmeir about the Oklahoma
City bombing but does not believe Strassmeir had any knowledge of
it.
 "Nobody's advocating violence," says Woodruff, a retired
exterminator. "We're trying to do things in a peaceful manner."
 Strassmeir says he spent most of his time at Elohim City, a 400-
acre Christian Identity community in Muldrow, Okla., where about
100 people live. Strassmeir went there to work for cash because
he had no visa permitting hem to work legally, his lawyer says.
 Elohim City is widely viewed as a white-separatist compound with
an unorthodox breed of Christianity: Jews are the devil's
children, white Europeans are God's chosen people, and blacks are
sub-human, according to some of their literature.
 Questions concerning Elohim City arose immediately after the
bombing. Richard Wayne Snell, a white supremacist who killed a
black police officer and a man he believed was Jewish, was
executed in Arkansas hours after the bombing. Some conspiracy
theorists believe the bombing was a sendoff or retaliation for
Snell, who had close ties to Elohim City and is buried there.
WAS THERE A WIDER CONSPIRACY?
There is one detail of the bombing upon which many people agree -
including the grand jury that indicted McVeigh and Nichols - two
Army buddies who distrust the government they once served - could
have acted alone.
 The indictment of McVeigh and Nichols says they acted "with
other unknown" to grand jurors to conspire to place a truck bomb
at the base of the federal building, just below the second-floor
windows of the building's day-care center.
 "Whoever put that truck there had to have seen the children,"
Kathy Wilburn says, holding back tears. "We have a right to know
who did this to our babies."
 There are two primary reasons cited for the involvement of
others:
 * Several eyewitnesses saw McVeigh and someone known as John Doe
No.2 at the federal building the morning of the blast. Other
witnesses say they saw up to four people with McVeigh that
morning.
 Dozens of Doe look-alikes have been questioned. No one has been
arrested.
 Police sketches of John Doe No.2 bear no resemblance to
Strassmeir and no one has identified him as being in Oklahoma
City on the day of the blast.
 * Grand jurors believe McVeigh and Nichols financed the bombing
by "causing" the robbery of $60,000 worth of guns, coins and
precious metals from a Royal, Ark., gun dealer in October 1994.
 Someone who does not match the description of either McVeigh or
Nichols staged the robbery, but authorities have made no arrests.
 Strassmeir's attorney says if the German national is brought to
court to answer questions about the bombing, he will be able to
show he was nowhere near Kansas or Oklahoma City in the two weeks
before the blast.
 His evidence, Lyons says, is a few notes scratched on a Norman
Rockwell calendar. Strassmeir says he was mending fences near
Elohim City for an elderly woman he and Lyons refused to
identify. She kept track of the days Strassmeir worked by marking
them on her calendar.
 While Strassmeir and his attorney insist he was working the week
before the bombing, they say there are no notations on the
calendar between April 9 and 15, the same time period the Wilds
claim to have seen Strassmeir in Herington.
 The Wilds and Lawson all say the FBI has questioned them about
Strassmeir.
 Federal investigators will not comment on their work. Strassmeir
and his lawyer say the FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Denver,
where the bombing trail will be held, have told them Strassmeir
is not a suspect.
 Representatives from both offices questioned Strassmeir in a
three-way phone conference in May, Lyons says.
 "The FBI are not beginners," Strassmeir says. "They know
eyewitnesses are not always reliable sources."
Staff Writer Kirk Loggins and Tennessean researcher Glenda Washam
contributed to this report.
Photo captions:
"German citizen Andreas Carl Strassmeir, who used a Knoxville
address at one time, has been questioned by the FBI about the
Oklahoma City bombing."(Photo of Strassmeir by R.L. Sherrow)
Insert map showing Ft. Riley, Kan. to Oklahoma City in the OKLA.,
KAN., MO., and ARK. corner area. (Diane Nottingham / Staff)
"Colton Smith, 2, and brother Chase, 3, were among 19 children
killed in the bombing. Their mother, Edye Smith, Has filed a $30
million lawsuit against suspect Timothy McVeigh."
"Kathy and Glenn Wilburn look where the day-care center used to
be in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Before the Oklahoma
City bombing. Behind them are the remnants of buildings that were
also destroyed in a blast that killed their two grandsons." (Rex
Perry / Staff)
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