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How did Timothy McVeigh make the bomb for the Oklahoma City?
It was fairly basic chemistry and physics using products which are commercially available such as agricultural fertilizer and diesel fuel.
Why did the Oklahoma City bombing occur?
On 19 April 1995, 29 year old Gulf war veteran rented a truck and packed it with about 2,300 kg of explosive material consisting of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertiliser, and nitromethane, a highly volatile motor-racing fuel. He then detonated it in the street in front of the Alfred P Murrah federal building, a US government office complex. 168 were killed in the explosion, including 19 children attending a day-care centre in the building. 800 more people were injured, while over 300 buildings in the surrounding area were destroyed or seriously damaged. At the trial, the US Government asserted that McVeigh's motivation for the attack was to avenge the deaths two years earlier of Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, whom he believed had been murdered by agents of the federal government. On 13 June 1997, Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death by a jury consisting of seven men and five women, who unanimously voted that McVeigh should die by lethal injection: he was executed at a US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 11 June 2001.
Why did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Oklahoma City federal building?
At the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the US Government asserted that McVeigh's motivation for the attack was to avenge the deaths two years earlier of Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, whom he believed had been murdered by agents of the federal government. By his own admission, he was seeking to punish the US Government for their actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Oklahoma City was viewed as the American Heartland, the Muir Building housed the ATF and DEA offices, lacked physical security, was built adjacent to the street which provided proximity for his truck bomb to be effective and would minimize civilian deaths. His plan had paid little attention to the presence of a children's nursery (or he may have valued it as a psychological benefit). Because he had personally scouted out the building it is difficult to accept his statement that he did not know of the children's presence.
Was the OK bombing really caused by a car bomb?
In the beginning the authorities told is was only a car bomb. According to the March 20, 1996 issue of Strategic Investment newsletter, a classified Pentagon study confirms that the Oklahoma bombing was caused by more than one bomb. A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 was caused by five separate bombs. The two experts reached the same conclusion for the same technical reasons. Sources close to the Pentagon study are reported to have said that Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but peripherally, as a "useful idiot."
Where in the US did a bomb go off in 1995?
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. April 19, 1995.
How did Timothy McVeigh make the bomb for the Oklahoma City?
It was fairly basic chemistry and physics using products which are commercially available such as agricultural fertilizer and diesel fuel.
What car did Timothy McVeigh bomb with?
truck bomb
How did Timothy McVeigh bomb the building?
By a bomb truck and fertilizer.
Is a fertilizer bomb an explosive device?
Yes, ammonium nitrate from fertilizer was primary component used in Oklahoma City by McVeigh.
Why did the Oklahoma City bombing occur?
On 19 April 1995, 29 year old Gulf war veteran rented a truck and packed it with about 2,300 kg of explosive material consisting of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertiliser, and nitromethane, a highly volatile motor-racing fuel. He then detonated it in the street in front of the Alfred P Murrah federal building, a US government office complex. 168 were killed in the explosion, including 19 children attending a day-care centre in the building. 800 more people were injured, while over 300 buildings in the surrounding area were destroyed or seriously damaged. At the trial, the US Government asserted that McVeigh's motivation for the attack was to avenge the deaths two years earlier of Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, whom he believed had been murdered by agents of the federal government. On 13 June 1997, Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death by a jury consisting of seven men and five women, who unanimously voted that McVeigh should die by lethal injection: he was executed at a US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 11 June 2001.
Who was arrested for the Oklahoma City bombing?
The USN light cruiser USS Oklahoma City was bombed by a North Viet Air Force MiG17 in 1972 during the Vietnam War. But the NVAF MiG only scored near misses on the light cruiser. One MiG17 hit the USN destroyer USS Higbee though. The USS Oklahoma City was sunk as a target in 1999.
Why did Timothy and Terry bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City?
It was said to be in retribution for Federal action at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
What is the biggest terrorist attack besides September 11?
Barack Obama says that the Gulf oil spill was like 9-11 but it was not a terrorist attack. The biggest terrorism attack in the USA was the Oklamoha bombing. The Oklahoma City bombing was a bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 by Timothy McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who detonated an explosive-filled truck parked in front of the building. McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, had assisted in the bomb preparation. This terror attack killed 168 people.
When was the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma bombed?
On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in OklahomaCity, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes.
What terrorist attacks occurred during Clinton years?
During the Clinton administration the United States remained a target for international terrorists with bomb attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City (1993), on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (1998), and on the U.S. Navy in Yemen (2000). The domestic front, though, was the site of unexpected antigovernment violence when on April 19, 1995, an American, Timothy McVeigh, detonated a bomb in a terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 and injuring more than 500.
Why did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Oklahoma City federal building?
At the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the US Government asserted that McVeigh's motivation for the attack was to avenge the deaths two years earlier of Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, whom he believed had been murdered by agents of the federal government. By his own admission, he was seeking to punish the US Government for their actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Oklahoma City was viewed as the American Heartland, the Muir Building housed the ATF and DEA offices, lacked physical security, was built adjacent to the street which provided proximity for his truck bomb to be effective and would minimize civilian deaths. His plan had paid little attention to the presence of a children's nursery (or he may have valued it as a psychological benefit). Because he had personally scouted out the building it is difficult to accept his statement that he did not know of the children's presence.
Was the OK bombing really caused by a car bomb?
In the beginning the authorities told is was only a car bomb. According to the March 20, 1996 issue of Strategic Investment newsletter, a classified Pentagon study confirms that the Oklahoma bombing was caused by more than one bomb. A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 was caused by five separate bombs. The two experts reached the same conclusion for the same technical reasons. Sources close to the Pentagon study are reported to have said that Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but peripherally, as a "useful idiot."
