Terrorism: Clinton when memory of Oklahoma attack 30 years ago

On the 30th anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attack that an American committed in the United States, people in Oklahoma thought of the victims. Ex-President Bill Clinton spoke in memory of the 168 deaths at the ceremony.

Clinton said the attack shocked the country, but also showed the best of America. People had helped everywhere. Clinton spoke of the currently deep division of the country. Instead, the United States needed this “Oklahoma standard”.

“If we all stick to it, we would be much better,” said Clinton in a hoarse voice. “We would get a fairer economy and a more stable society. We would understand each other, and we would not feel weak if we admit that we were wrong,” said Clinton.

Clinton was the president when the right -wing extremist government opponent Timothy Mcveigh on April 19, 1995, at 9.02 a.m. local time, in front of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Bouilding in downtown Oklahoma City. 168 people died, including 19 children. The FBI describes the explosion on its website as follows: “Within a few moments, everything looked around like in a war zone. A third of the building was in rubble and ash.”

Huge explosive device hidden in trucks

The main perpetrator Timothy Mcveigh indicated the government as a motive. The ex-soldier despised the Federal Police FBI and believed that the government restricted the rights and freedoms of the citizens, as the FBI recorded on its website. Mcveigh had carefully selected his goal. The building in Oklahoma City seemed ideal because many federal authorities were located in the capital of Oklahoma.

Mcveigh has parked the explosive device in a borrowed truck in front of the building and brought it to explosion. The pictures of the destruction went around the world. Arab terrorists were initially suspected behind the attack. But after a short time it was clear that it was an American. Just 90 minutes after the assassination attempt, the police stopped him because his car had no license plate and arrested him because a pistol is found in the car. A little later he was transferred to the attack. The ex-soldier was executed in 2001, his accomplice Terry Nichols, who helped him with the Bai of the bomb, sentenced to 161 times in prison.