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...obeying, as it happens, the instructions for pows in a manual published by the Michigan Militia. Even when confronted last week with photographs of the children carried from the crumpled Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building -- some bloody and numb with shock, others already dead -- McVeigh appeared unshaken. The accused bomber seems to have decided that he is a prisoner...
...spotted someone leaving what proved to be a bomb outside a computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, and helped police produce a composite sketch of a white man, now in his 40s, about 6 ft. tall, with light hair, a moustache and glasses. Nearly two years ago, the bomber sent a brief, cryptic note to the Times in which he described himself only as an "anarchist." Besides the sketch of the Unabomber and his letters, just about the only clues are the locations of his attacks, the identities of his targets and the fragments of his trademark bombs...
...people who knew McVeigh from his hometown of Pendleton, New York, about 15 miles northeast of Niagara Falls, recognized him from the composite sketch. And some of his classmates and teachers from Starpoint High, where McVeigh graduated in 1986, would have nominated him as least likely to be the bomber. "He wasn't a troublemaker at all," says Wendy Stephany, while Cecelia M. Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house...
...life that I realized the bombing would hurt different people in different ways." Correspondent Ed Barnes' hunch that the terrorists might this time prove to be American was cinched when he learned the birth date that was cited on the fake driver's license used to rent the bomber's truck: April 19. Barnes recognized the date as one that is near talismanic to the survivalist fringe he had observed while reporting on the Michigan Militia, a group we wrote about in our Dec. 19 issue last year. In fact, the subjects of the FBI's investigation turned...
...bombs in pairs, one a brief time after another. Over the past 17 years, 15 bombings attributed to him have resulted in two deaths and the maiming and injuring of 23 people. But the Associated Press cited an unnamed federal source today who thinks that from the letters the bomber has sent to the FBI recently, "This guy has flipped...