Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
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About Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who carried out the devastating Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. As a Gulf War veteran, he became radicalized by anti-government beliefs and sought revenge against the federal government for various incidents, leading him to defend the bombing as a legitimate tactic against a tyrannical government.
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