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Forgotten? Or Just Overshadowed?


Julian2

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15 years today.

 

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995, when American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh, with the assistance of Terry Nichols, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. It was the most significant act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11 attacks in 2001, claiming the lives of 168 victims and injuring more than 680. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius. The bomb was estimated to have caused at least $652 million worth of damage. The official investigation was the largest criminal investigation case in American history; FBI agents conducted 28,000 interviews, collecting nearly one billion pieces of information. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.

 

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I also found it interesting that McVeigh and episodes like Waco faded very quickly after 9-11. In the case of Koresh, you have to ask which side the 'terrorists' were on - the ATF/FBI assault killed unarmed women and children to get a 'scalp' at a time when their funding was under intense scrutiny:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_Siege#The_final_assault

 

We were all treated to the vision of ATF agents being shot in the face as they tried to get in the windows of the compound, but it took considerably longer for the other side to be able to give their version of events. Not sure how many have seen the Frontline story on the tragedy, but it paints a damning picture of the ATF and Janet Reno:

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/

 

I'm under no illusions that Koresh had mental problems or that his followers were deluded, but the tactics used by the authorities were straight out of Mad Max.

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