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...defendants unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty and claimed that the sheik had offered the approval of Islamic law for the terror campaign. If the Administration's bill had been in place, it might have made it easier to expel Rahman and his associates. As for the Oklahoma bombing, if it was indeed entirely the work of Americans, Washington's new weapon against terrorism may be pointed in the wrong direction...
During the ceremony, 285 miles to the north, a 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...
...their relatives and their far-right supporters who feel a passionate allegiance to a group they believe was unjustly ambushed by an oppressive government. Pam Hawkins, a Branch Davidian sympathizer and founder of the Mount Carmel Independent Investigation Advocates, said that her first reaction to the news of the Oklahoma bombing was that it might have been a "planned disruption" of the Waco commemoration. "I have learned," she said grimly, "not to give the government the benefit of the doubt...
Living through a bomb attack--the sudden deafening noise; the flying glass and masonry; the bloody, broken bodies and screams of the injured--is traumatic enough to throw most adults into profound shock. But if the grownups who survived the Oklahoma City explosion are numb in its aftermath, what could be going through the minds of the blast's smallest and most vulnerable victims, the children...
...investigators examined several strong new 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...