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...learned about these men and their involvement in the nation's worst terrorist action ever, a crime that last week had left an official toll of 65 adults and 13 children dead and at least 100 still missing in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Although Nichols and his brother James are being held as material witnesses, their friend and associate McVeigh was charged, under Title 18 of U.S. Code, Section 844, with bombing a government building. According to the complaint filed by the FBI on Friday night, McVeigh was known...
...sense of guilty introspection swept the country when the FBI released sketches of the suspects, distinctly Caucasian John Does 1 and 2. Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes...
...whereabouts and activities during the next 24 hours are still unknown, but at least three witnesses say they saw him on Wednesday morning outside the federal building in Oklahoma City...
...hour and 20 minutes after the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over for driving without license plates outside Perry, Oklahoma, 60 miles from Oklahoma City. When Oklahoma state trooper Charles Hanger noticed that McVeigh was wearing a shoulder harness bearing a Glock semiautomatic pistol, which turned out to be loaded with hollow-point bullets, the trooper arrested him on state charges of carrying a concealed weapon, driving without tags and driving without insurance. McVeigh was taken to the jail at the courthouse...
...blast came, disbelief turned rapidly into a blur of activity. Pentagon aides rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want a repeat of the Ramzi Yousef debacle, when the accused mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing managed to flee the U.S. just hours after that attack...