When Timothy McVeigh attacked Oklahoma City Federal building on April 19th 1995, the United States saw 168 people killed and saw more than 608 people injured. The blast was so strong that it destroyed or damaged more than 300 buildings in a 16 block radius.
McVeigh a war veteran of Desert Storm what could make a war veteran want to attack a federal building killing incident men, woman, and children. According to. Explains some do the events that led to McVeigh attacking Oklahoma City " McVeigh, Nichols and their associates were deeply radicalized by such events as the August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his Idaho cabin, in which Weaver’s wife and son were killed, and the April 19, 1993, inferno near Waco, Texas, in which 75 members of a Branch …show more content…
In my opinion you can never know when an attack will come you just have to ready and have yours security trained and always alert because you never know if somebody is going to attempt to attack a federal building. We know McVeigh picked Oklahoma City because of how easy it was to get to and leave and McVeigh lived close to the location making it easy to transport the explosives. As an investigator that is the first thing I would look at is all the federal location and looking at how easy it would be to get there and leave if an attack was attempted. As investigators we have to be in the mindset if I was terrorist how would I pull an attack off.
The big question you have to ask yourself how McVeigh obtained all the material to make the bomb. According to the reading McVeigh had found book on the material he would need to make a bomb. Also in the reading we see a time line of how McVeigh and Nichols gathered all the equipment they would need.
September 30 1994- McVeigh and Nichols bought 40 50 pound bags of ammonium from a farm store in McPherson
McVeigh a war veteran of Desert Storm what could make a war veteran want to attack a federal building killing incident men, woman, and children. According to. Explains some do the events that led to McVeigh attacking Oklahoma City " McVeigh, Nichols and their associates were deeply radicalized by such events as the August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his Idaho cabin, in which Weaver’s wife and son were killed, and the April 19, 1993, inferno near Waco, Texas, in which 75 members of a Branch …show more content…
In my opinion you can never know when an attack will come you just have to ready and have yours security trained and always alert because you never know if somebody is going to attempt to attack a federal building. We know McVeigh picked Oklahoma City because of how easy it was to get to and leave and McVeigh lived close to the location making it easy to transport the explosives. As an investigator that is the first thing I would look at is all the federal location and looking at how easy it would be to get there and leave if an attack was attempted. As investigators we have to be in the mindset if I was terrorist how would I pull an attack off.
The big question you have to ask yourself how McVeigh obtained all the material to make the bomb. According to the reading McVeigh had found book on the material he would need to make a bomb. Also in the reading we see a time line of how McVeigh and Nichols gathered all the equipment they would need.
September 30 1994- McVeigh and Nichols bought 40 50 pound bags of ammonium from a farm store in McPherson