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Timothy McVeigh said that the Federal Building in Oklahoma City was chosen as a target because it housed so many government offices and because it was more architecturally vulnerable than other federal buildings. McVeigh has also said he did not know there was a day care center in the building and was surprised when he learned from newspapers that children had died in the bombing, according to these two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. (Source: http://archive.nandotimes.com/newsroom/nt/bigstory.html) Group Responsible Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were indicted and convicted for the bombing. McVeigh has been charged with the bombing by the Justice Department. Nichols surrendered voluntarily in Herrington, Kansas, the day after the explosion. He was charged with the bombing May 10. His brother, James Nichols has been charged with conspiracy. He and his brother allegedly aided McVeigh in the plot. (Source: http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/caught.html) Target, When, Where, and How Attacked The Oklahoma City Bombing took place on April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma CityOklahoma City's, killing 168 people and injuring more than 500.. An apparent terrorist car bomb exploded outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building collapsing the north face of the nine-story concrete building, injuring hundreds of workers, and killing at least 31, including 12 children who attended a day-care center on the second floor. Local officials said they feared that the toll would rise quickly because by early evening more than half of the estimated 550 people who worked in the building were still unaccounted for. (Sources: http://crime.about.com/library/blfiles/blmcveigh.htm?iam=savvy&terms=%2BOklahoma+%2BCity+%2BBombing ; http://www.cnn.com/US/OKC/daily/9512/12-30/index.html; http://www.cnn.com/US/OKC/bombing.html) Goal The people who have talked with McVeigh said he had been motivated by anger at the federal government's actions in the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, and the 1992 killing of the wife and son of a white supremacist, Randy Weaver, during federal agents' siege of the Weaver family's home in Idaho.
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