In 1994-5, and again from 1997 to 2003, Vulliamy was based in Washington and later New York as U.S. Correspondent for "The Guardian"'s sister paper, "The Observer". In the United States, he covered the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, and in its wake, investigated deep within the far-right militia movement. He covered US politics, society, culture and sports across the union, the transition from the presidency of Bill Clinton to George W. Bush. Later, he reported on the lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and on its slipstream, penetrated the white supremacist backstory behind the killer's world, in jail and among fringe religious compounds. He was living in New York at the time of the &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; terrorist attacks in 2001 and covered the story and its aftermath, in the city and along the corridors of power. While based in New York, he reported from Mexico on narco-traffic, organised crime and the mass-murder of women in Ciudad Juárez; from Haiti on the regime of Raoul Cedras and US intervention 1994 US intervention , from Jamaica on organised crime in Jamaica, from Cuba on the dissident movement and from Nicaragua.