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The Oklahoma City bombing

Posted on: April 19, 2008 9:01 AM, by Greg Laden

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The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

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The United States was represented by a team of prosecutors, led by Joseph Hartzler. In his opening statement, Hartzler outlined McVeigh's motivations and the evidence against him. McVeigh's motivation, he said, was hatred of the government, which began during his tenure in the Army as he read The Turner Diaries, and grew through the increase in taxes and the passage of the Brady Bill, and grew further with the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents. The prosecution called 137 witnesses, including Michael Fortier, Michael's wife Lori Fortier, and McVeigh's sister, Jennifer McVeigh, all of whom testified on McVeigh's hatred of the government and demonstrated desire to take militant action against it.


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Funny how they never caught that mystery "3rd man"....it must be hard to find the masterminds of crimes like this, considering as how they all work under classified identities at the FBI/ CIA, et al...

http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/10/third.man.am/

Kind of like all of these "terror cells" that keep getting created by sloppy FBI 'informants', etc.

Ever notice how many of these lates FBI cases ( most of which totally crumble at trial) involve mentally ill people?

Posted by: the real thirdman | April 20, 2008 9:52 PM

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The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 people injured. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.
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It was april 19,1995 at 9:03 that the lives of thousands were affected by one single explosion.The explosion took the lives of 168 men,women,and children.The explosion physically injured 600 individuals and emotionally injured numerous amounts of people around the world.The explosion took place at the alfred p.murrah federal building in oklahoma.It was a horrorable attack by the terrorism.
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Posted by: albertson | August 9, 2008 2:54 AM

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that is a bad state and i hate it there and there are a lot of dumb people and there friends and they are dumb to because they are with then and they lie a hole lot....................

Posted by: Abbigail Gouker | August 25, 2010 2:46 PM

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