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...paused at a picture of a curly-haired young woman that hangs on the fence outside. "I think there are a lot of new angels up there with you today," she said to the frozen image of her daughter Carrie Lenz, who died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building when she was 26 and six months pregnant...
Exotic weapons get a lot of attention, but conventional explosives and suicide bombers in pizza parlors, discotheques and shopping malls can spread terror with stunning effectiveness. Fertilizer bombs like the one that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1995 could wreak havoc with bridges, tunnels and buildings. Nuclear-power and chemical-manufacturing plants make even more horrifying targets. The 1984 leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, may have killed 3,000. Estimates of the final death toll from the 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant run as high...
...spread chaos and despair. The hijackers didn't need sophisticated technology. Nor may their successors. The East Coast power grid, for example, has less than half a dozen key switching points. Six truck bombs, packed with nothing more sophisticated than the fertilizer that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years ago, could disrupt the economy of half the nation...
...story about the newly released documents in the Timothy McVeigh case [NATION, May 21] mistakenly said an FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2 was based on images captured by a surveillance camera in a bank near the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. In fact, the sketch was based on an FBI interview with the man who rented to McVeigh the Ryder truck used in the bombing...
...Timothy McVeigh is dead. If it is true that blood cannot restore blood - not one of the 168 people killed at the Murrah Building rose from the dead on Monday morning - and if it is true that Government cannot, or should not, act for revenge... then what exactly were we doing, as a people, out there on the banks of the Wabash...