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Where were you 11 years ago today?
BBC ^ | 4/19/95 | Unknown

Posted on 04/19/2006 5:57:10 AM PDT by Coop

BBC archive:

1995: Many feared dead in Oklahoma bombing

A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing at least 80 people including 17 children at a nursery.

At least 100 people have been injured and the number of dead is expected to rise.

In an emotional speech, President Bill Clinton vowed "swift, certain and severe" punishment for those behind the atrocity.

"The United States will not tolerate and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards," he told a White House news conference this evening.

Trapped in the rubble

The blast happened just after 0900 local time when most workers were in their offices. It destroyed the facade of the ten-storey Alfred Murrah Building.

One survivor said he thought there was an earthquake: "I never heard anything that loud. It was a horrible noise...the roar of the whole building crumbling,"

There were scenes of chaos as paramedics treated the wounded on the pavement and rescue workers battled to dig out those still trapped in the rubble.

The building housed a children's nursery on the second floor as well as social security, customs, agriculture and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

Some federal agents noted that the ATF mounted the operation two years ago today which ended the siege of David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas. However members of the cult commemorating the siege have angrily denied any connection.

The State Department would not discuss the possibility of this being a terrorist attack but the FBI and Oklahoma police put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck.

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and ten of his supporters are currently on trial for the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.

Government buildings in Washington and all over the US have been put on high alert. Federal offices in Wilmington, Boston and Rochester were evacuated after bomb scares.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bombing; fbi; mcveigh; murrah; okcbombing; oklahomacity
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To: Schwaeky; Michael Barnes
Yeah. It clicked for me when Michael Barnes posted the sketch on this thread!
201 posted on 04/19/2006 9:47:54 PM PDT by null and void (Pay no attention to the imam behind the curtain...)
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To: pinz-n-needlez
Don't know.

What about Woosley, Gaffney and Michael Medved?

202 posted on 04/19/2006 9:56:13 PM PDT by rvoitier (Democrat Party = Culture of Treason)
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To: Coop

My "where were you" on this one is pretty boring. I was at home, in bed. At the time, I worked 2pm-10pm, so I usually stayed up pretty late and slept till 12 or 12:30pm. The only unusual thing is that, for some odd reason, I'd left my TV on the night before; perhaps I'd just fallen asleep in bed before turning it off. In any case, around 10:00am or so, I started going in and out of that groggy semiconscious state every few minutes to the sound of Tom Brokaw, and I just barely made out words like "bomb" and "explosion". I looked up, saw what seemed to be a never-ending overhead chopper shot, and all in all, it just wasn't enough to stir me to full consciousness, even though there was part of my brain trying to wake me up, yelling, "Hey, this isn't normal pal! Tom Brokaw doesn't do the news in the morning!"

I never did finally wake up for real until my alarm clock went off a couple of hours later, and then I had a very busy day at work that prevented any of it sinking in until after I got home for the night.


203 posted on 04/19/2006 10:19:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: Dont Mention the War

Rita has an interview on tonight with Josh Nichols (son of Terry). They are talking about who else may have been involved.


204 posted on 04/19/2006 10:20:59 PM PDT by pnz1
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To: Coop

I was at work in Fort Riley, Kansas.


205 posted on 04/19/2006 10:21:19 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: Coop

I was driving on Middlesex Turnpike in Burlington, Massachusetts with Howie Carr on the radio. Howie immediately blamed "towelheads" then later apologized for jumping to conclusions.


206 posted on 04/19/2006 10:22:57 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Madame Dufarge

Uh oh.

Are you calling me crazy too?

Remember, that's my theory. ;-)

But it's really not that crazy. If he did it out of some sort of perceived righteous motive (accurate or not), it would be immoral to target any one but the guilty. In my theory, the 'Feds' were all one. Department, age, and culpability were irrelevent, but a 'local' wasn't the bad guy.

A crazy and immoral person wouldn't make any such distinction and just blast anyone in his way.

Now please don't misconstrue what I'm going to say next. What follows is just something to think about. (While I share his outrage (if my theory is correct), I do not approve of what he did. As Claire Wolf said: "The problem with America is that it is too late to work within the system, but it's still too early to start shooting the bastards.")

Think about the various agencies housed in that (and every other federal building in this country. How many of them are constitutionally mandated? Not many. How many of them violate and restrict our God given rights or extract our money through taxation and our property through regulation under the guise of 'helping' us? Probably most of them.

If we just followed the Constitution and those unauthorized agencies didn't exist, would there have been such a horrific death toll? Or even a target? If the government wasn't out of control, would there even be the outrage that could trigger such a horrible act?

If we could only unring that bell or prevent it from ringing again.


207 posted on 04/20/2006 12:29:51 AM PDT by Badray
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To: okkev68

My condolences on your loss.

I had the same thoughts. What was the hurry to destroy the scene? I don't buy the story that it was to protect the familes.


208 posted on 04/20/2006 12:34:13 AM PDT by Badray
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To: Doctor Don
168 people were killed but three ladies were pregnant.....I count the fatalities as 171

Oh, I'd never heard that before. It just makes the tragedy that much worse. Three little angels who never had a chance.

209 posted on 04/20/2006 4:42:16 AM PDT by Coop (Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
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To: Badray
If we just followed the Constitution and those unauthorized agencies didn't exist, would there have been such a horrific death toll? Or even a target? If the government wasn't out of control, would there even be the outrage that could trigger such a horrible act?

I'd say "yes." The target & motivation may have been different, but the evil would have still been there. Just MHO.

210 posted on 04/20/2006 4:45:47 AM PDT by Coop (Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
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To: andie74

As I read your post I could only imagine how you and your friends, having experienced first hand, these two horrific events , coped with the reality of what you had experienced...twice.
I don't believe in coincidences....you people are special.


211 posted on 04/20/2006 5:04:48 AM PDT by TET1968
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To: Badray

New tagline..


212 posted on 04/20/2006 8:28:06 AM PDT by null and void (America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
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To: Coop
I was in "the field" doing some water quality testing on streams in Southeast Oklahoma. I returned to my truck and heard the news on a talk radio station. I had no way of contacting my twin brother, sister-in-law, or my agency's home office (all in OKC). I couldn't remember where the Federal building was located so I didn't know if the blast was close to any of them.

My office was near the capitol, my brother was miles away, and (by the grace of God) my sister-in-law didn't have to pick up her documents at the Murrah Federal Building that particular day!

213 posted on 04/20/2006 1:31:06 PM PDT by sawoody
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To: linda_22003

I guess you never read any of Jayna Davis's work?

http://www.jaynadavis.com/


214 posted on 04/20/2006 1:32:42 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: acad1228
I was in Sapulpa Ok. driving in late to work in Tulsa. My Classic Rock radio station...

97.5 KMOD ???

215 posted on 04/20/2006 2:09:40 PM PDT by sawoody
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To: sawoody
97.5 KMOD ???

Well, Of course!!!!

216 posted on 04/20/2006 2:20:55 PM PDT by acad1228 (Faithful servant of the Dark Lord Xenu!)
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To: acad1228

I could use some Roy D Mercer today. Too bad I can't get that station from here.


217 posted on 04/20/2006 2:35:27 PM PDT by sawoody
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To: feinswinesuksass

Guess not. Never heard of her.


218 posted on 04/20/2006 2:38:13 PM PDT by linda_22003
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To: null and void

And a good one it is.


219 posted on 04/20/2006 3:46:11 PM PDT by Badray
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To: Coop

Yes, evil exists. Always has. Always will.

But I think that you miss my point.


220 posted on 04/20/2006 3:51:27 PM PDT by Badray
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