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| fatalities = 168
| injuries = 680+
| weapon = Ammonium
| alias = Tim Tuttle<ref name=washingtonpost/><br />Darel Bridges<ref name="trutv7"/><br />Robert Kling
| motive = Retaliation for the [[Waco Siege]], [[Ruby Ridge]], other government raids and general U.S. foreign policy
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'''Timothy James McVeigh''' (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American [[domestic terrorist]] convicted<ref name="cnn 3-29-01"/> and executed<ref name="mcveigh_dead"/> for the detonation of an
McVeigh, a [[Gulf War]] veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for its handling of the 1993 [[Waco siege]], which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for the 1992 [[Ruby Ridge]] incident. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against the federal government. He was [[conviction (law)|convicted]] of eleven federal offences and sentenced to death. His [[Capital punishment in the United States|execution]] was carried out in a considerably shorter amount of time than average after his trial, as most convicts on death row in the United States spend an average of fifteen years awaiting execution. Four years after his conviction, McVeigh was executed by [[lethal injection]] on June 11, 2001, at the [[Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute|Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana]], exactly three months before the [[September 11 attacks]]. [[Terry Nichols]] and [[Michael and Lori Fortier|Michael Fortier]] were also convicted as conspirators in the plot. Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life terms without parole. Fortier was sentenced to 12 years and has since been released.
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