Timothy McVeigh

[[File:TimothyMcVeighPerryOKApr2195.jpg|right|thumb|165px|McVeigh surrounded by lawmen.]]{{crimenav}}'''Timothy James McVeigh''' {{lived|1968|2001}} was an [[United States|American]] right-wing [[terrorist]] responsible for the '''Oklahoma City bombing''', which destroyed a federal building in Oklahoma City, [[Oklahoma]], in 1995, killing 168 people, and injuring around 600.

McVeigh was a [[Gulf War]] veteran and 
[[Gun nut|gun freak]]
 [[Conservative correctness|weapons enthusiast]], and was connected to the [[militia movement]].  He was inspired at least in part by ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'', a [[neo-Nazi]] [[dystopia]]n novel depicting a [[race war|racial apocalypse]]. It has since been argued by fellow terrorist [[Unabomber|Ted Kaczynski]] that his fascination with the book related purely to its terrorism and did not extend to its [[racism]], which seems true as McVeigh did not seem to have a heavy emphasis on race in his ideology compared to his fellow militia movement members (who mostly view America as a white Christian only country).<ref>[http://www.3-3-3.org/docs/Kaczynski%27s%20comments%20on%20McVeigh.htm Appendix B, pages 398 - 402 of the book American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing]</ref>

McVeigh, who believed that a totalitarian [[New World Order]] was coming, stated that his attack was a response to the U.S. government's previous sieges of armed [[cult]]ists 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' [[death]]s as acceptable [[collateral damage]], as terrorists invariably do. According to the book ''American Terrorist'', after reading John Ross' novel ''{{wpl|Unintended Consequences (novel)|Unintended Consequences}}'' (appropriate, eh?), he decided it might have been better if he had carried out an assassination campaign instead of an act of mass murder and destruction.

McVeigh was [[capital punishment|executed]] in 2001, exactly three months before [[9/11]]. Relatives of McVeigh's victims watched the execution on closed circuit television.<ref>[https://findadeath.com/timothy-mcveigh/ Timothy McVeigh] at findadeath.com.</ref>

McVeigh's life and death have also been the subject of numerous [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]. These primarily revolve around the notion that the Oklahoma Bombing was a [[false flag operation|false-flag terror attack]]; conspiracy theorists argue that McVeigh was a "patsy" and that he is still alive, his execution being staged,<ref>[http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/current_news/mcviegh_alive.htm Tim McVeigh is Still Alive!] goodnewsaboutgod.com.</ref> or that there was another bomber involved ("John Doe #2").<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/confession_of_the_oklahoma_cit.html Confession of the Oklahoma City Bomber: John Doe 2 Exists.] Amercian Thinker, 11 April 2011.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Survivalism]]
*[[Unabomber]]
*[[Eric Robert Rudolph]]
*[[The Turner Diaries]] - His inspiration for the Oklahoma City Bombing.

==References==
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