Posted on 04/13/2015 10:17:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Twenty years ago, on 19 April 1995, a disaffected veteran named Timothy McVeigh drove a Ryder truck stuffed with explosives into downtown Oklahoma City and destroyed a federal office building, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and maiming hundreds of others. That much we know.
We also know that, within 90 minutes of the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over near the Kansas border and arrested, alone, at the wheel of a glaringly improbable getaway car, an ancient, spluttering rust bucket of a Mercury sedan with no licence plates, which made him a sitting duck for any passing highway patrolman.
How could such a callous, carefully planned attack have come to such an incongruously slapdash end? After a vast investigation headed by the FBI, three trials mounted against McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, and an avalanche of court documents, there is still no definitive answer to that question.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Oklahoma City bombing – by far the most destructive act perpetrated by a home-grown assailant against fellow Americans – is not how much we’ve learned over the past 20 years but rather how much we still do not know.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
McVeigh dropped all appeals.
He wasn't. He was murdered by a private citizen.
Damn, I'm having a senior moment...
Oh, now I remember, Jose Padilla.
5.56mm
Whatever happened to Jayna Davis, and just out of curiosity has anybody seen or heard anything of OKCSubmariner in the last several years?
I was ten years old when that happened I thought it was Saddam and my dad was sure it was Bill Clinton.
Where are all the video tapes of the blast? - There were several that were confiscated by the FBI.
And who is the owner of the Middle Eastern Leg that was recovered from the truck blast? (He would be on those videos.)
And the Trentadue angle - what happened there?
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He wasn't. He was murdered by a private citizen.
OK, lets agree that he was EXECUTED by a private citizen. Ruby had his orders to execute LHO. And he did.
2/14/08 Hillary Ordered The Final Massacre At Waco
http://rense.com/general80/hillms.htm
Yes, I know. The source is The Spotlight. But read it anyway.
McVeigh dropped his appeals.
Only McVeigh was executed and apparently that is what he wanted. McVeigh chose in the end to speed up his own death sentence by waiving his right to further appeals.
Ruby had his orders to execute LHO
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Yep. And then — Surprise! Surprise!— Jack Ruby died in prison shortly thereafter. Cover-up after cover-up....
McVeigh chose in the end to speed up his own death sentence by waiving his right to further appeals.
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That is what we were told anyway....
Hehe...yeah. It makes a convincing lie.
Um, Ruby did die in prison alright - IN 1967!!!!
But you two conspiracy theorists have fun feeding each other's paranoia.
Only one person was executed, McVeigh.
It was more than 6 years after Coward McVeigh detonated the bomb when he was executed. Are we pretending that he had more to tell us? That he had more he would tell us?
He was a worthless POS and drew breath for a lot longer than he should have, from where I sit.
If 4 years after the killing of Oswald can be considered shortly thereafter.
Bill Clinton wanted to show he wasn't soft on crime.
The Ft. Hood killer is still breathing because Obama wanted to show he is soft on Islamonazism.
The Oklahoma City bombing has been far surpassed -- by the Obama presidency.
But then I suppose you could argue about whether the latter was "home-grown".
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