Oklahoma City Bombing

RUNNING HEAD : OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

Oklahoma City Bombing

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Introduction

The events of April 19th 1995 will forever remain in the heads of the residents of Oklahoma . On this fateful day , 180 innocent civilians lost their lives and approximately 800 were left injured . But what really led to such a catastrophe ? The US government called it an act of terrorism and up to the September 11th attack in 2001 this was regarded as the worst act of terrorism ever to be

experienced in the US . What is surprising is that unlike the September 11th (911 ) attacks , this was a domestic act of terrorism aimed at the US government . This leads to the next question , what grudge a US citizen would have against his own government . The two suspects who were arrested and later convicted and sentenced to death , were not impressed by the way the government handled the Waco and ruby ridge incidents . In fact , the bombing occurred on the anniversary of the Waco incident

However , on that day a bomb exploded next to the Alfred

Murrah federal building . It destroyed close to a third of the building and created a large crater next to the foot of the building . The bomb was made of a large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertilizer , diesel fuel and nitro methane mixture . It was detonated at exactly 9 .02 am and the events of the day , left a sad story to be told to the future generations of...