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...terrorist pursuit of an ideological cause. Just two drifters and misfits with a rented truck and a homemade bomb. That is the story behind the killing of 168 people in Oklahoma City last April, so far as it can be drawn from a federal grand jury indictment of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The indictment, issued last week, contains only a bare-bones description of how they allegedly built the bomb that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19; six of its 15 pages are devoted to naming the victims...
That very sparseness, however, indicates that the alleged conspiracy was a small-time affair in everything except the horror of its results. Only one alleged helper is named: Michael Fortier, who according to the indictment helped McVeigh case the Murrah building. Fortier pleaded guilty to a separate indictment charging him with transporting stolen property (guns sold to raise money to buy explosives) and perjury; he is committed to testifying against McVeigh and Nichols. Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with TIME, McVeigh's father and sister detailed the FBI's intense, successful campaign to persuade her to cooperate with its investigation...
...indictment does speak of "others unknown to the Grand Jury" who may have been in on the plot. But that language seems intended at least in part to counter defense arguments that the government chose McVeigh and Nichols as scapegoats without exhausting the possibility of finding a broader conspiracy--a contention that McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, is already pressing. The government is continuing to look for possible accomplices, but, said Attorney General Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only...
...McVeigh: I would say the courage and bravery of the Founding Fathers...
...McVeigh: It was very poorly handled. The use of force is definitely out of control...