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Although the Michigan Militia, along with members of other groups, has moved quickly to repudiate any connection with McVeigh or the bombing, the significance of the date on which it took place--April 19--was not lost on those familiar with the patriot movement. Says Ron Cole, a former leader of the Branch Davidian sect who describes himself as a patriot: "It's a date that has a significance like no other day of the year." On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington--the opening salvos in America's Revolutionary War--began. On April 19, 1993, the siege...
...into the national picture. Often verbose, Clinton was conscious, said senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, that "his words carry tremendous weight." For the most part, he chose those words carefully and delivered thn em well. But when he spoke to the press late Friday to announce the arrest of Timothy McVeigh, he strayed from that discipline and turned the encounter into a self-referential exercise. This time, Clinton couldn't resist the temptation to state that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty; that doing so might strike some listeners as gratuitous no longer seemed to worry...
Although some initial reports suggested that the bombing might have been the work of Middle Eastern terrorists, the hunt for the killers quickly focused on two white Americans accused of having rented the truck used to hold the explosives. On Friday one suspect was taken into federal custody: Timothy McVeigh, who had been picked up by a highway patrolman two days earlier on a traffic violation north of Oklahoma City. Two associates of McVeigh's were also taken into custody as potential witnesses. A possible motive: McVeigh was said to be obsessed with the Federal Government's 1993 assault...
...bomb ravaged an Oklahoma City federal building, blasting concrete and metal and lives, and creating a whole nation of mourners. At first the timing of the explosion seemed like nothing more than an eerie coincidence. But soon evidence of a connection surfaced. In an FBI affidavit taken after Timothy McVeigh's arrest, a former co-worker claimed that the bombing suspect had been unusually aggrieved by the government's conduct in Waco...
...leads inthe Oklahoma City bombing, emergency workers at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building were forced to resort to using heavy equipment to dismantle sections of the dangerously unstable structure, as a safety measure. Law enforcement officials have found a receipt for a ton ofammonium nitratewith bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh's fingerprints on it in the Herington, Kan. home of Terry Nichols, the DallasMorning Newsreported today. FBI agents are also searching a lake near Herington where a witness saw a Ryder truck days before the bombing. Authorities believe the ingredients needed to make the bomb could have been assembled...