Bombing Of Oklahoma City Bombing

It was April 19, 1995 at 9:03 that the lives of thousands were affected by one single

The Oklahoma City Bombing would be considered the worst terrorist attack on America prior to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. Just outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, on April 19th, 1995 a truck exploded, killing 168 people. 19 of those 168 being children. The explosion caused damage to 300 surrounding buildings. Oklahoma City was going through a tragedy and needed guidance from a leader.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin told jurors that Yousef was part of a "self-proclaimed army of terrorists" http://cnn.com/US/9708/05/wtc. trial/index.html), that plotted the February 23rd attack. While Yousef was charged with ordering and mixing the chemicals to make the bomb, co-defendant Eyad Ismoil was accused of driving the van carrying the bomb into the World Trade Center's underground garage. In an article for CNN on the 5th of November 1997, jury deliberations were said to have begun. The two men, Ramzi Yousef, 29, and Eyad Ismoil, 26, were both charged with conspiring to set off a bomb February 26, 1993, at the Center. U.S. Attorney Lev Dessin said that the pair believed they were above the law and set off the bomb to terrify Americans. Prosecutors say the pair and four other men who were convicted earlier, hoped that the bombing would persuade the U.S. to stop giving aid to Israel ttp://europe.cnn.com/US/9711/05/trade. center.trial/).

At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 5,000-pound bomb, hidden inside a Ryder truck, exploded just outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion caused massive damage to the building and killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children (Rosenburg, 2011). On April 23, four days after the bombing, President Bill Clinton addressed the public and gave an effective, excellent speech.

The same day of the charging of McVeigh with the crime, Terry Nichols, a partner of McVeigh's, turned himself in to authorities in Kansas. Both men were discovered to be affiliated with a radical activist survivalist party from in Michigan. “They learned about McVeigh’s extremist ideologies and his anger over the events at Waco two years earlier. They discovered that a friend

On April 19, 1995, a man by the name of Timothy McVeigh carried out an attack that would leave the United States, along with other countries, devastated. At 9:02 A.M, a truck bomb explosion outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. Many people apprehend that McVeigh carried out this attack because he was mentally unstable. He was actually thinking logically. McVeigh planned out the attack based on his life experiences and by what he read in books. He retaliated against the government because of his personal beliefs and he wanted to be recognized for the bombing.

“This is it”, Will said softly as the he is in tower was collapsing. The jet fuel in an inferno about 20 feet away, scorching the concrete. There are dismembered limbs, scorched around him. He remembers the moments before the plane hit the 1st tower. He was terrified when he saw the plane collide. There were objects and debris flying everywhere. The people around him were terrified, wondering if the people in the other tower were alright. The tower was shook from the impact. He knew that he had to run, or else he would die. He sprinted as fast as he could to the stairs, when he was younger he had a similar experience, the Oklahoma City bombing.

On April 19th, 1995 a homemade bomb made of a concoction of agricultural fertilizer, fuel, and other dangerous chemicals was left in a truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. At 9:02 in the morning, it’s blast damaged over 300 buildings surrounding the vehicle and even flattened a third of the federal building. (Strom, 2015) The bomb took the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. It was found that two men, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols were the ones who planted the device. Both men were found to be associated with a radical militia movement that sought revenge for a siege in Waco, Texas two years prior. The siege killed 82 Branch Davidians, of whom, multiple were related to the militia movement.

The Oklahoma City Bombing was a very special event in American history, it was the biggest act of domestic terrorism until 9/11. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was an office complex in Oklahoma City, was bombed and 168 people were killed. Timothy McVeigh, the subject of my paper, was behind the bombings, and later executed.

He turned himself in, in Herington, Kansas, and was also charged with the bombing shortly after. (Clark, 1995)

On April 15, 2013 during the Boston Marathon in Copley Square, two bombs exploded near the finish line killing at least three and injuring over 170 people. This bombing sent the nation in an uproar and it was immediately recognized as a terrorist attack. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation took over, a few days later a surveillance video and photographs of the two suspects were released.

On May 24th 1988 Timothy took a huge step to fulfill his dream of becoming a member of the United States Special Forces. In Basic training McVeigh met an individual named Terry Nichols, Nichols was much older than most of the recruits and held his own pretty well. McVeigh and Nichols became close friends and even got stationed at Fort Riley Kansas Together. Kifner, John. (1995). Terry Nichols was one of the master minds behind the attack of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. As stated by former FBI agent "These two are birds of a feather. Each feeds off the other 's inadequacies." McVeigh and Nichols would later deploy to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War where McVeigh served as a Bradley Gunner. During his time in Iraq McVeigh was awarded the combat Infantry badge and a bronze star. Kifner, (1995).

These two brothers exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring over 200 more. Following the attack, a manhunt resulted in the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev died during a shootout with law enforcement that day. Investigators concluded that they were not connected to any terrorist organizations. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dzhokhar-and-tamerlan-a-profile-of-the-tsarnaev-brothers/

The world trade center bombing of 1993, was a terrorist act orchestrated by Ramzi Youseff, (b. Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim) a Kuwaiti national with ties to Iraq, Pakistan but considers himself a Palestinian. He spent time in the training camps of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan where he mastered his skills in explosives; he has traveled the world as a Jihadist performing terrorist acts.

April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma killing 168 people. McVeigh remains one of the most violent terrorists in the course of history. Domestic extremist are the most violent and unpredictable threats in modern history.