Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who bombed the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people in the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history.
A Gulf War veteran radicalized by anti-government extremism, McVeigh targeted the building on the second anniversary of the Waco siege.
He was executed by lethal injection in 2001.
- bombingAttack with explosives
- terroristViolent political intimidator
- domestic terrorismPolitically motivated violence by citizens
- homegrown terrorismNative-born political violence
- lone wolfSelf-reliant individualist
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