Word: mcveigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging to spread bloody mayhem at ground zero of America's millennium celebration. It's a truly scary scenario, in which acolytes of monsters as different as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden engage in a kind of terrorism Olympics with innocent New Yorkers as their cannon fodder. But it's a scenario for which federal and city officials are well prepared, and for which they're deploying legions of FBI personnel and police to head...
...America have been briefed on the danger of homegrown right-wing terrorists acting out apocalyptic fantasies to coincide with the millennium. After all, the Oklahoma City attack had the U.S. media running profiles of the usual suspects from the Middle East in the hours before the arrest of Tim McVeigh...
...piece, Points of Re-Entry, about the ways women mutilate their bodies to satisfy cultural norms, from Thai women who wear heavy metal braces to elongate their necks to American teens who starve themselves to stay thin. She visited Oklahoma City after the bombing of the federal building ("Timothy McVeigh to me is a fascinating character") and spent 10 days last summer in Kosovo gathering stories about women's experiences during the war ("I came back and just cried for a week"). This is not a woman short of dinner-table conversation...
Among them, he says, are Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, and Timothy McVeigh. One can only imagine this bombing trio's conversations. Kaczynski says McVeigh (who has recently been transferred to another prison) lent him one of the most interesting books he's read lately, Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab, by John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne. "I mean, I knew from my own experience that they were crooked and incompetent," Kaczynski says, shaking his head and laughing. "But according to this book, they're even worse than what...
...Fortier lawyer Michael McGuire argued to no avail that the four years his client has already served was enough ?- that Fortier was "cast aside conveniently" by the government after helping to bring Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to justice after the carnage. "This man was the difference in both of those cases, your honor," said McGuire. "This man has given a lot. I don't know if he'll be credited for it. He should be given credit." For Bebber, a reduction from 171 1/2 years to 12 was more than enough "credit" for a man who pleaded guilty...