Amanda Ammons
September 24, 2018
Unit III Research Topic
HLS-2301
9/11 has been viewed as the worst terror attack that the United States has suffered on home soil
in the history of terror attacks. Religion and ideologies of terroristic groups seems to be the once issue
that does not change with terrorism, but the methods at which they carry out these attacks has.
However, before 9/11 the United States was not exempt from terror attacks. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh
utilized a cargo truck and explosives to kill at least 168 people, injure more than 680 others, and
destroyed one-third of the building. Until the terror attacks in September 2001, this was the worst case
of demotic terrorism the U.S. had seen.
It was the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s
history. On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco siege, McVeigh
parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside the Murrah Building and
fled. Minutes later, the massive bomb exploded.
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