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Up until September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack the
American people had witnessed was that of on federal building
in Oklahoma by Timothy McVeigh, as a result of which 168 peo-
ple lost their lives, including a number of children. What is in-
teresting about that bombing is that Timothy McVeigh was both
the member of a deviant cult as well as a neo-Nazi.
McVeigh claimed to have carried out that bombing in re-
venge for David Koresh and his followers who burned to death
on a farm in 1993. According to McVeigh, Koresh and the cult
members did not kill themselves, but were actually murdered
by the American state. He therefore decided to take revenge on
that state, and planned to bomb the people working in its name
in the Federal Building.
Exactly two years after
the deaths of Koresh and
his cult followers, on the
second anniversary in
fact, McVeigh cold-blood-
edly parked a lorry full of
The bombing in Oklahoma
by Timothy McVeigh made
the cover of Time magazine.
The pictures on the adjacent
page and the one after show
scenes from the aftermath of
the attack.