It has been 15 years since Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City with a truck bomb. Killed one hundred and sixty eight people were injured and more than 600 others, in what remains the problem of America’s worst ever terror at home.
Since that day, United States Code, has been applied to guard against recurrence of such an attack. For the Oklahoma City bombing changed the federal government, just look at the Washington headquarters of the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And protected by a barrier that looks like a giant concrete and steel fence, which aims to prevent any explosive-laden vehicle from approaching the building.
But the attack on the symbols of Uncle Sam’s follow-up. In February, for example, the pilot flew with a grudge against the government, a small plane in the Office of the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas. Can be a disaster on a scale from Oklahoma City to happen ever again?
Bill Clinton, who was president at that time, Mr. McVeigh’s attack, is among those who believe that the political environment today has some similarities that pose a threat in 1995. He spoke a lot about it in recent days.
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