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...will be some time before federal authorities determine conclusively who was responsible for Wednesday afternoon's gruesome bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that left at least 21 dead--among them 17 children. Already, however, the prognosticators have begun to debate about who is responsible...
None of this means, of course, that we should not tirelessly pursue all leads in the Oklahoma bombing, or that Islamic terrorist cells are not obvious candidates for responsibility. Organizations ranging from the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria to Hamas in Israel and the occupied territories, from Hizbollah in Lebanon to Sheikh Rahman and friends in New Jersey, have wreaked havoc on civilian targets in the name of Islam. States across the Middle East from Iran to the Sudan have proved themselves able and willing to sponsor this brand of terror throughout the West...
When suspects are rounded up in the Oklahoma City bombing it will not be a great surprise if Islamic radicals have had nothing at all to do with it. It will also not be a tremendous surprise if they have. After the World Trade Center bombing a couple of years ago, Americans can no longer operate with the naive assumption that it cannot happen here...
...even if Muslim extremists are found to be responsible, we must redouble our efforts to resist the sloppy and hateful logic that associates all Muslims and Arabs with acts of terror. During the first few hours after the bombing in Oklahoma City, the Arab American Council in New York received no fewer than 16 bomb threats. This only underscores the fact that Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim prejudice is, regrettably, alive and well in our society. We must not tolerate this ugly and insidious brand of racism...
With two men now in custody, investigators of the bombing are pursuing leads that the incident has roots in the American paramilitary fringe. Just 90 minutes after the bombing Wednesday, the FBI disclosed today, authorities arrested Timothy McVeigh -- the "crew cut" man in police sketches -- 60 miles north of Oklahoma City for speeding, and then held him for reasons not yet disclosed. This afternoon, the other man in the sketches, Terry Lynn Nichols, voluntarily surrendered in Herington, Kan.; police officials say he is cooperating in the investigation. The FBI searched the home of Nichols' brother, James Douglas Nichols, in rural...