Word: blasted
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...pair had studied the building frequently in advance, as the prosecutors allege. Jones claims that on April 19 there were as many as three Ryder trucks in Oklahoma City and that the one McVeigh was driving may not have been the one involved in the blast...
...point up a few conflicts in the testimony about trucks. This week U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, who is presiding over the case, will hold a hearing to rule on a defense request that the government turn over a mountain of classified information that was gathered right after the blast. Jones says he needs to see all the data the government gathered about possible foreign terrorist involvement. Prosecutors warn that granting the request could delay the trial for years. In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, every intelligence officer and law-enforcement agent in the U.S. and around the world...
Snell's words might seem more prophetic if the blast had not happened 12 hours before he died. In any event, what would connect McVeigh to Snell's avengers? For that, Jones reaches to Andreas Strassmeir, 36, the ultra-right offspring of a politically prominent German family. In 1988 he came to the U.S. to indulge his fascination with the Civil War, racial politics and guns. In 1991 Strassmeir began to live on and off in Elohim City, a far-right religious community in eastern Oklahoma, where patriarch Robert G. Millar preaches his own variation of white-separatist ideology (northern...
...fence is as close to a tangible memorial as Oklahoma City has managed to create in the year since the nearly 2 1/2-ton bomb exploded. It stands at the center of a flat, hard, raw and windswept place; this section of downtown, already in decline before the blast, is now a virtual ghost town. For Americans far from Oklahoma, the hole blown out of our sense of safety and stability at 9:02 a.m. last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than...
...loss of loved ones; the paranoia that it could happen again, maybe this April 19; the anxiety brought on by the wait for the trial of accused bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. According to one survey, 38.5% of the state respondents personally knew a victim of the blast. "The psychological healing has a long way to go,'' says Governor Frank Keating, who lost three friends and can still choke up during interviews. "All of us are still sensitive and still recovering...