Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Conspiracy in the Rubble: Truth behind the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

At 9:05 a.m. on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring over 680 more. The bomb was built by McVeigh and co-conspirators, packing 108 bags of highly-explosive fertilizer into a rental truck, and parked it outside of the building minutes before the explosion. This was considered the deadliest terrorist attack in America until 9/11.

After McVeigh's arrest, the other accomplices were detained, and the investigation proceeded.

Even though the outcome of the investigation concluding that McVeigh's bomb was the cause of the entire destruction, evidence and tests have led many to believe that something bigger was in play. Based on evidence, experts have suggested that there were more explosive devices used in this bombing, inside the building.

This federal building housed not only D.E.A. and A.T.F. offices, but a child daycare as well.

The documentary, A Noble Lie touches on the evidence that many investigators ignored, and have continued to ignore throughout the years.

Within a year of the bombing, the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was passed. On June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death.

Conspiracy theorist have claimed that the bombing was an inside job, in which the government may have been involved or had knowledge about it. The evidence left from the destruction suggest that Timothy McVeigh was not the lone culprit in this attack, even though he was the only assailant sentenced to die.

These theorist feel that McVeigh was a scapegoat in this event, in order to create paranoia within the public and help the Anti-terrorism Act of 1996 pass through office.

The act impacted the habeas corpus in the United States, which effected the appeals process of the court system.

McVeigh was eventually convicted, without much of an appeal process, and sentenced to death. Even with the evidence gathered from the rubble suggesting that he was not acting alone, his accomplices could not be directly linked to committing the attack, and were only charged with aiding.

McVeigh claimed that this was an attack on the government, an even though it proved apparent, the ultimate truth is that the size of the bomb he placed in the moving truck could not cause such destruction.

Timothy McVeigh would eventually be put to death on June 11, 2001.

Whether the government was involved, or knew about the attack prior to the bomb going off, the facts show that bomb could not have done such damage.

Though it was an act of terrorism, the public has been led to believe that everyone involved has been prosecuted and convicted.

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