Timothy McVeigh
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Timothy McVeigh was an American-born terrorist of debated religion[1] who destroyed a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1995, killing 165 people, and injuring over 400.
McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran and gun freak weapons enthusiast, and was connected to the militia movement. He was inspired at least in part by The Turner Diaries, a racist dystopian novel depicting a racial apocalypse. It has since been argued that his fascination with the book related purely to its terrorism and did not extend to its racism.
McVeigh stated that his attack was a response to the US government's previous sieges of armed cultists at Waco and Ruby Ridge. He had visited Waco during the standoff to express his solidarity with those in the compound. The Oklahoma City bombing was his act of revenge, and he saw his victims' deaths as collateral damage. According to the book American Terrorist, after reading John Ross' novel Unintended Consequences, he decided it might have been better if he had carried out an assassination campaign instead of an act of mass destruction.
McVeigh was executed in 2001 and faced his death calmly. Relatives of McVeigh's victims watched the execution on closed circuit television but unlike some other American executions it was not broadcast to the public at large.[2]
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