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    Domestic Terrorist

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    In today’s society, there is more and more Americans who are joining terrorist groups. Therefore, the US government need to become more vigilant and understand the reasons as to why these individuals are following extremist groups. Instead of Americans concentrating of Muslims who wear turbans in American, the Federal Bureau of Investigations should also look at every day American men and women of all colors of skin. Although there are many reasons as to why Americans may become a home grown…

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    Right: Analyzing a Documentary Oklahoma City by Barak Goodman, based on the events leading up to deaths of hundreds of Americans by a domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh and the ensuing of capital punishment on him. The documentary Includes interviews of Timothy McVeigh and families and friends of the Victims who lost their lives in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing in 1995. Timothy McVeigh Killed 168 people and injured over 500. In the documentary Oklahoma city I learned that Timothy…

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    Ted Kaczynski's Suicide

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    After Kaczynski graduated from the University of Michigan, Kaczynski taught at the University of California, but according to Maria Haberfeld, author of A new understanding of terrorism, Haberfeld notes that “Kaczynski continued his pattern of having limited contact with others at Berkeley” (Haberfeld, 2009, 38), which furthered Kaczynski’s isolation patterns. In 1969, Kaczynski inexplicably resigned his teaching position with the overriding concern that technology was to enslave mankind. In the…

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    deadliest attacks of terrorism occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh was an American militant and was the man that set of the bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal…

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    he was also very bright, earning a partial college scholarship after graduating from high school in 1986” (McVeigh, 2017).McVeigh started reading a book,” The Turner Diaries, an anti-government tome by neo-Nazi William Pierce, the book described a bombing of a Federal building, and the book fueled McVeigh’s paranoia about government plot to repeal the Second Amendment:.(McVeigh, 2017).In 1988 McVeigh enlisted in the U.S. Army and was a model solider, he also earned the Bronze star for bravery in…

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    Rhetorical Analysis of Clinton’ Speech On April 19 in 1995, America has witnessed a tragic act of terrorism- the bombing of federal agency building in Oklahoma- in which 168 people died, and hundreds of individuals were injured. For the US, where people rarely doubted their security, this act of terrorism was a big loss. Families of victims and citizens of America were hurt, desperate, and heartbroken, and of course the US Government feared that this incident may contribute to loss their…

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    1995, at 9:02 a.m. Timothy McVeigh went into the annals of history for committing the single largest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing 168 people – 19 of which were children. He was later captured that day by an Oklahoma State Trooper when he was stopped for driving a vehicle without a license plate and being in illegal possession of a firearm, then developed into the suspect of the event, indicted and convicted. On June 11, 2001, at 7:41 a.m. he was…

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    What makes a criminal? What makes someone intentionally want to cause harm to other people? The type of environment a person grows up in could dictate whether or not they become a criminal. If a person grows up in a home where criminal behavior is normal, and they become desensitized to that type of behavior, they may grow up believing there is no harm in it. If you look at a criminal’s background, they normally don’t come from a happy home. Drug addicted parents, and police constantly showing…

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    that I planned to mention. I could hear the clicking, clattering, and chattering of the employees as they prepared for the day ahead. I loved my job as the head of the Federal Employees Credit Union at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and had looked forward…

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    Ammonia Research Papers

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    a fertilizer, but it has also been used to create explosives and even for illicit purposes. For example, ammonia is used as a key ingredient in the making of methamphetamine. Now, on April 19, 1995 a domestic terrorist attack place against the Oklahoma federal building. Ammonia was a key component used to create the high explosive, used y terrorist that day. The terrorist used 50-pounds bags of ammonium nitrate. They built a bomb that contained more than 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate…

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