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30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing [1]
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Date: 2025-04-19
The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy and his army buddy Terry planned the bombing in Kingman, AZ where he stayed with his army buddy Michael and Michael’s wife Lori. Timothy drew a sketch of how he’d make a fertilizer bomb in an enclosed rental box truck.
Four months before the bombing Michael accompanied Timothy to a trip to Oklahoma City to look at the Murrah Federal Building. They went inside, talked to some army recruiters and saw the day care and small children (19 children died).
A few days before the bombing Michael or Lori could have made an anonymous pay phone call and in ten minutes detailed the plans, names and army buddy connection, and Herrington, Kansas where the 2,000 pounds of fertilizer, blasting caps, detonation cord, plastic 55 gallon barrels and racing fuel were.
The bomb materials were stored in several mini storages in and around Herrington, Kansas (45 miles south of Ft. Riley, Kansas). Herrington was where James lived. Michael said after being arrested that he was afraid that Timothy would have killed him if he had notified the police. Timothy had bragged he killed two Iraqi soldiers in the Gulf War. They all were very much anti-government.
Once the FBI investigated the fertilizer bought in a nearby Farmer’s Co-Op they would have investigated several mini storages in the area and probably found the bombing material. Timothy and Terry would still be in prison and 168 people wouldn’t have died and 759 wouldn’t have been injured. Timothy was executed in 2001 and Terry is in prison on a life sentence. Michael did 10 years in prison and he and his wife is in federal witness protection. They’re still costing all of us our tax money.
If you see something say something. An anonymous phone call would have stopped this mass murder.
After the bombing there were task forces to investigate these anti-government groups. But these task forces have since been disbanded.
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