Their Interior Ministry is still clueless:
The Interior Ministry's Crisis Centre also distributed a statement yesterday in which it said that there is no reason for the population to worry."The envelopes were addressed to various authorities, not to citizens. Moreover, the quantity of toxic products was not worrying," it said.
FBI investigates possible McVeigh link to fuel buy
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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April 11, 1997, Friday
Staff and wire reportsFBI agents descended on a Texas auto racing track last month looking for evidence that Timothy McVeigh bought a large quantity of powerful racing fuel before the Oklahoma City bombing, ABC reported Thursday night.
Employees of VP Racing Fuels told the FBI that a man resembling McVeigh in 1994 paid $ 2,700 cash in Texas for nitromethane, ABC said.
The chemical is an accelerant the government now believes may have been used to detonate the bomb that killed 168 people.
Previously, the government has maintained that the bomb was made of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Some explosives experts questioned whether such a bomb could have caused the extensive damage seen in Oklahoma.
The Rocky Mountain News reported Feb. 5 that a bomb mixed with nitromethane instead of fuel oil would be much more powerful.
The News reported that an official of VP Racing Fuels warned federal agents in October 1994 that a man resembling McVeigh was trying to buy nitromethane or anhydrous hydrazine - highly explosive fuels for dragsters.