Domestic Terrorism in the Usa the Hate Agenda
Secret Intelligence Service DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN THE USA THE HATE AGENDA U.S. radical right-wing terror plots, conspiracies and racist riots, beginning with the Oklahoma City bombing 1995 At 9:02 a.m. on 19 04 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care centre. Another 500 were injured. Although many Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried out by domestic, right-wing terrorists. The slaughter engineered by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, men steeped in the conspiracy theories and white-hot fury of the American radical right, marked the opening shot in a new kind of domestic political extremism — a revolutionary ideology whose practitioners do not hesitate to carry out attacks directed at entirely innocent victims, people selected essentially at random to make a political point. After Oklahoma, it was no longer sufficient for many American right- wing terrorists to strike at a target of political significance — instead; they reached for higher and higher body counts, reasoning that they had to eclipse McVeigh's attack to win attention. Herein is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right during the years since Oklahoma City. These include plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armoured cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons.
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