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MILNET: Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing

A synopsis of the event:
Timothy McVeigh, a radical anti-government "militia" member, built a bomb constructed of fertilizer and certain other components, set the large device in the back of a rental truck, then parked this truck along the sidewalk next to the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

In the morning hours on April 19, 1995, the device exploded, killing hundreds of Federal employees and a distressing number of children in the on site daycare center. The blast was so large that one entire side of the building collapsed, making the building look as if a giant monster had taken a bite out of 1/3, slicing through all the floors of the building.

The date of the blast, April 19, 1995, is the anniversary date of the "Waco Massacre", a rallying event for anti-government radicals concerned with the abridgement of the right to bear arms.

The truck bomb, a Ryder "roll door" moving van, was loaded with a fertilizer bomb, driven up to the Federal Building and parked. The explosion caved in half of the building, looking similar to a multi-layer cake with a huge bite taken out, thorugh all layers. The smoking rubble refused to yield many live bodies, however some did escape.

Especially cruel was the deaths of the children in the daycare center.

Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of the killings .Conjecture supports the Waco theory and evidence presented at the trial supports that theory. No hard links to any militia group were found other than past relationships.  During the trial, errors in the FBI investigation further tarnished that organization's reputation.  McVey was eventually put to death via lethal injection in June of 2001

Another is implicated in the plot to blow up the building was Terry Nichols who was later convicted in 1997 and sentenced to life for the deaths of the eight federal agents in the attack as well as the 161 victims (received 161 life sentences).

A reporter, Jayna Davis claims she compiled evidence of a third connection in the Oklahoma bombing, a mideast terrororist, and that the FBI categorically refused for an extedned period of time to accept any of her evidence.  Eventually they did agree, but then Davis says the evidence disappeared in the bowels of the FBI and nothing has been heard of it since.  Mz. Davis also claims to have fought a battle to keep much of the evidence out of the hands of politically motivated investigators until she could get assurances of protectino for her witnesses.  When asked via email whether that might have been a mistake in light of 9/11, Mz Davis refused to answer and continues her silence.