The Oklahoma City bombing nearly 22 years ago was an act of domestic terror bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeU . S . military veteran Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice , Terry Nichols . The bombing destroyed one third of the Alfred P . Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , killing 168 people and injuring 680 others . In his documentary killingLife.Die.UnspecifiedOklahoma City , injuringLife.Injure.UnspecifiedBarak Goodman revisits the bombing as the first major domestic terrorist attack in the United States on April 19 , 1995 .
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev followed his older brother ' s lead in carrying out the 2013 bombing that killed three people , rather than acting on his own motivation bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeone killedLife.Die.Unspecifiedhis attorneys argued on Monday .
On 19 September 2019 , a suicide car bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeoccurred outside a hospital in Qalati Ghilji , Zabul Province , Afghanistan .
July 29 , 2011 -- When Army Pfc . Naser Jason Abdo , accused of plotting planning a deadly bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeand shooting attack on soldiers at Fort Hood , made his first appearance in court in Waco , Texas , today , he yelled the name of accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan .
DENVER ( AP ) _ Jurors on Friday saw McDonald ’ s security pictures of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking his watch just before he allegedly walked to a body shop and rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode.
The Oklahoma City bombing bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeApril 19 , 1995 was a watershed moment in American history and indelibly changed the way Americans viewed terrorism and public safety . While the effects of the bombing are well - documented , not as much attention has been paid to the motivations of the bomber , Timothy McVeigh . He was spurred to action by the events of the Waco siege , where the FBI engaged in a 51 - day standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedthe Branch Davidians , a small religious group suspected of owning illegal weapons . However , this was not the first incident that inspired his later actions . In 1992 , the Weaver family entered into their own standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedfederal agents , after Randy Weaver failed to show up to court on illegal weapons charges . Over the course of the standoff , his wife , Vicki Weaver , and twelve - year - old son Samuel were killed killedLife.Die.UnspecifiedBoth Waco and Ruby Ridge galvanized the far right , who saw it as the government using deadly force against their own citizens , who merely wished to live their lives as they saw fit . McVeigh was further influenced by The Turner Diaries , a novel in which the protagonist blows blowsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodea government building as a part of a revolution against the government . These three factors are analyzed in regards to the influence they had on McVeigh ’ s decision to attack attackConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeMurrah building .
" The bombing of the Alfred P . Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode, on April 19 , 1995 , was , at the time , the most significant act of terrorism that had ever taken place in the United States . actConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedagencies , led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , immediately began an extensive investigation to identify and prosecute the culprits . The investigation , known as investigationCognitive.Research.Unspecified, was run by a Task Force that investigationCognitive.Research.Unspecifiedprimarily of FBI investigators and support personnel and Department of Justice prosecutors . Within a few months , three individuals - Timothy McVeigh , Terry Nichols , and Michael Fortier - were indicted for crimes relating to the bombing . McVeigh and Nichols were convicted indictedJustice.ChargeIndict.Unspecifiedtrials , and Fortier pled guilty as part of a plea convictedJustice.Convict.Unspecifiedwith the government . McVeigh , guiltyJustice.Convict.Unspecifiedhad devised the plot to bomb the Murrah Building and had planted the bomb , was sentenced to bombConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode. On May 8 , 2001 , one week before sentencedJustice.Sentence.Unspecified' s scheduled execution date , the Department of Justice and the FBI revealed to McVeigh ' s and Nichols ' attorneys that over 700 investigative revealedJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedhad not been disclosed to the defendants before their trials . The government acknowledged that it had violated a discovery order in the case , and the Attorney General stayed McVeigh ' discoveryJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedexecution for one month in order to resolve the legal issues arising from the belated disclosure . Following the public revelation of the problem , and after finding and releasing more than 300 additional OKBOMB documents to the defense , findingJustice.InvestigateCrime.UnspecifiedFBI came under severe criticism for its handling of the OKBOMB documents . "
A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
Boston law enforcement officials say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the U bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeS . Federal Bureau of Investigation that he and his brother Tamerlan originally considered suicide bombings , and planning attacks on July 4 - the United attacksConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode' Independence Day .
The Manbij bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeoccurred on 16 January 2019 when a suicide bomber targeted a busy market street in Manbij known to be frequented by American soldiers .
Calls for an inquiry accompanied the 30th anniversary commemoration of the 15 people who died and 16 who were seriously injured in the McGurk ' s bar bombing of 1971 . Relatives diedLife.Die.Unspecifiedthe victims , who held injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedmemorial service in Belfast this week bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeare calling for an investigation into allegations of crown force collusion in the UVF bomb attack .