Posted on 04/19/2023 8:59:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
He was about to commit mass murder.
Inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door, and headed towards his getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse, then another.
At precisely 9:02 a.m., the bomb exploded.
Within moments, the surrounding area looked like a war zone. A third of the building had been reduced to rubble, with many floors flattened like pancakes. Dozens of cars were incinerated and more than 300 nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed.
The human toll was still more devastating: 168 souls lost, including 19 children, with several hundred more injured.
It was the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.
Coming on the heels of the World Trade Center bombing in New York two years earlier, the media and many Americans immediately assumed that the attack was the handiwork of Middle Eastern terrorists.
The FBI, meanwhile, quickly arrived at the scene and began supporting rescue efforts and investigating the facts. Beneath the pile of concrete and twisted steel were clues. And the FBI was determined to find them.
It didn’t take long.
On April 20, the rear axle of the Ryder truck was located, which yielded a vehicle identification number that was traced to a body shop in Junction City, Kansas.
Employees at the shop helped the FBI quickly put together a composite drawing of the man who had rented the van. Agents showed the drawing around town, and local hotel employees supplied a name: Tim McVeigh.
A quick call to the Bureau’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia on April 21 led to an astonishing discovery: McVeigh was already in jail.
He’d been pulled over about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City by an observant Oklahoma State Trooper who noticed a missing license plate on his yellow Mercury Marquis. McVeigh had a concealed weapon and was arrested. It was just 90 minutes after the bombing.
From there, the evidence began adding up.
Agents found traces of the chemicals used in the explosion on McVeigh’s clothes and a business card on which McVeigh had suspiciously scribbled, “TNT @ $5/stick, need more”. They learned about McVeigh’s extremist ideologies and his anger over the events at Waco two years earlier. They discovered that a friend of McVeigh’s named Terry Nichols helped build the bomb and that another man—Michael Fortier—was aware of the bomb plot.
The bombing was quickly solved, but the investigation turned out to be one of the most exhaustive in FBI history.
No stone was left unturned to make sure every clue was found and all the culprits identified.
By the time it was over, the Bureau had conducted more than 28,000 interviews, followed some 43,000 investigative leads, amassed three-and-a-half tons of evidence, and reviewed nearly a billion pieces of information.
In the end, the government that McVeigh hated and hoped to topple swiftly captured him and convincingly convicted both him and his co-conspirators
“After McVeigh was arrested and surrounded by cops..”
McVeigh was arrested for his make-belive license plate by a single state trooper.
The ATF, FBI,DOJ Would do well to remember this the next time they want to burn down a religious community and kill over 80 people ,including women and children.
It was a year later (1996) when John Ross’ book, “Unintended Consequences”, caused the feds concern.
After he was arrested and back in OKC......
Since you brought it up I am curious as to how anyone is connecting Putin to the OK City bombing? Or is this just you trying to hijack this topic to discredit your critics on the Russia-Ukraine topics?
“Unintended Consequences” can be downloaded for free here:
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/129/Media/Unintended_Consequences.pdf
“No stone was left unturned to make sure every clue was found and all the culprits identified.”
Please show the nation the Oklahoma building, surrounding buildings, ATM’s and other CCTV footage obtained by the FBI after the event to prove this statement.......
It didn’t go missing did it?
And the reason for this moment of history? To legitimatize their current demonization of American citizens?
Are you saying a man was walking between the Murrah building and the truck when the truck went off and this same man was blown through a plate glass window on the other side of the street away from the Murrah building? Did he rebound off the Murrah building? How'd he get to the other side of the street?
“And McVeigh was prosecuted and executed in record time.”
This alone should give folks pause. When was the last most recent “mass murderer” tried and executed in record time?
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
Now you are thinking.
So, did the truck bomb blow him across the street?
Or, did the first blast come from inside the building?
Be careful, it only gets trickier from here......
The point is nobody is asking. The FBI went to great lengths to quash any testimony or evidence of the middle eastern suspects involved with McVeigh, and that began very early in the investigation. The book The Third Terrorist documents this fact in excruciating detail.
I am no structural engineer, but I stood right at the edge of the huge crater that was created by the blast. It was massive and very deep. I have no issues believing that it caused the damage that occurred. I was for a time, on the south side (plaza) side of the building...and it was largely undamaged. Windows blown out, but the offices on that side still have pictures and plaques hanging on the walls. So I believe that truck bomb was responsible.
I have a copy of that. Took a while to find.
Who was that woman - Carol Howe, that had a related case.
Story here:
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/02/us/a-spy-on-radical-right-is-acquitted.html
Despite what the NYT wrote, the flashpoint in the trial is when she testified about ATF folks knowing about the bombing plot in advance. They [the ATF] of course denied it, but she had the recorded phone call. That came out in court, and probably what got her acquitted.
I remember her giving an interview to Diane Sawyer on ABC after trial explaining how she still feared for her life and would be moving to an undisclosed location after that interview.
Have not heard a word about her since.
Anybody else remember that?
“It was the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.”
Once again, the FIB is lying. We all know there were Muslim operatives.
Stated first edition, with dust jacket in good shape is worth hundreds $
On the morning of his execution, McVeigh wrote,”For those die-hard conspiracy theorists who will refuse to believe this, I turn the tables and say: Show me where I needed anyone else. Financing? Logistics? Specialized tech skills? Brainpower? Strategy? ... Show me where I needed a dark, mysterious ‘Mr. X’!”
Who benefitted from the okc bombing more than any other person on earth?
The south side of the building near where the monument to the nwo stands today?
Why is there a monument to the nwo at the okc memorial?
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