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Ben Werner, Student Newspaper Editor
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Timothy McVeigh is a right-wing extremist convicted of carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing, while Ramzi Yousef is a Muslim terrorist who masterminded the World Trade Center attack.
The terrorist bombings of the New York City World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City Federal Building prove how easy it is for terrorists to operate in a free and democratic society.
He draws on the first WTC bombings and the Oklahoma City case as examples of domestic terrorism that can be addressed with the policies he lays out.
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John Carthy, Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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One guy even said that the death penalty was made for crimes like the Oklahoma City Bombing, that no one had ever deserved the death penalty more than Timothy McVeigh.
As the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh gets underway, Americans increasingly believe that anti-terrorism laws on the books are inadequate to the threat.
Did the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building require much more explosive power than was contained in the truck driven by Timothy McVeigh?
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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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Oklahoma City National Memorial - official site of the memorial museum located in Oklahoma City dedicated to remembering the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation - creating a memorial for those who died in the bombing and a center to educate the public about the events and about terrorism.
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Khalid Binalshibh, Taxi Driver
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Just as Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma bombing was not representative of Christian belief or practice, we need to realize that terrorism is not a tenant of Islam and that the vast maJority of Muslims abhor the violence and suffering perpetrated in the name of their religion.
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Josh Hogan, Commander
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Van Zandt also accurately profiled Oklahoma City Federal Building Bomber Timothy McVeigh on the day of that fateful bombing.
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Thomas Owens, Police Officer
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Vogel, an Oklahoma City FBI Special Agent, had volunteered to testify in the upcoming state trial of Terry Nichols, who has already been convicted on federal charges as an accomplice with Timothy McVeigh in the bombing.
McVeigh was put to death for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in a procedure watched by some survivors and relatives of victims.
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