The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history before the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two days after the bombing, viewed from across the adjacent parking lot
McVeigh and Nichols cited the federal government's actions against the Branch Davidian compound in the 1993 Waco siege (shown above) as a reason why they perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing.
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building as it appeared before its destruction
An aerial view, looking from the north, of the destruction
Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims. There are various different definitions of terrorism, with no universal agreement about it.
Aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in United States history
Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction
Damage to building after 2010 Austin suicide attack
