Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the Ad Board engages in some sketchy practices, listen to this recent incident of national fame: a week and a half ago, the F.B.I. released a "terrorist threat advisory" and a composite sketch of two men believed to be driving a U-Haul truck filled with enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to blow up several small homes or one larger government complex--a bomb potentially on par with the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City only two years ago. After catching the men, the armed Federal agents discovered--much to their embarrassment, I would imagine...
...were also buying diesel fuel, a necessary second ingredient for any high-quality bomb. Once the F.B.I. issued the terrorist advisory, hundreds of people from across the country called in leads to help with the search. (What a pity that the men were only loading their truck with the gas necessary to run their equipment and not conspiring world domination...
...notes, Nichols helped build the bomb and carried out a McVeigh plan to finance it by breaking into an Arkansas gun dealer's house to steal weapons (later sold for cash). According to the newspaper's account, McVeigh "insisted that he was the one who drove the Ryder truck" to the federal building, denying reports that someone else may have carried out the actual delivery of the bomb...
DALLAS: Defense notes obtained by the Dallas Morning News reportedly show that Timothy McVeigh told his attorneys that he alone drove the rental truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and that he choose to detonate the device in the morning in hopes of injuring and killing as many people as possible in order get his point across to the government. The documents, a compilation of interviews between McVeigh and his defense team, also reveal how McVeigh and Terry Nichols built the bomb and how they funded the operation with robberies. McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, called the reports fakes...
DALLAS: Defense notes obtained by the Dallas Morning News reportedly show that Timothy McVeigh told his attorneys that he alone drove the rental truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and that he choose to detonate the device in the morning in hopes of injuring and killing as many people as possible in order get his point across to the government. The documents, a compilation of interviews between McVeigh and his defense team, also reveal how McVeigh and Terry Nichols built the bomb and how they funded the operation with robberies. McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, called the reports fakes...