During McVeigh's trial, Lori Fortier ( the wife of Michael Fortier ) stated that McVeigh claimed to have arranged the barrels in order to form a shaped charge.

McVeigh later stated that he was unaware of the day-care center when choosing the building as a target, and if he had known "... it might have given me pause to switch targets.

" The FBI stated that McVeigh scouted the interior of the building in December 1994 and likely knew of the day-care center before the bombing.

McVeigh stated, " Once you bloody the bully's nose, and he knows he's going to be punched again, he's not coming back around.

McVeigh stated that his only regret was not completely leveling the federal building.

" In the 2001 book American Terrorist, McVeigh stated that he did not believe in Hell and that science is his religion.

In interviews before his execution, documented in American Terrorist, McVeigh stated he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated.

McVeigh personally stated that his attack was in response to the Waco massacre and the Ruby Ridge tragedy.

McVeigh stated, " It's a decision that I've been to-ing and fro-ing with for about eight weeks.

Gilchrist ’ s attorney stated that, " The criticism of Gilchrist around here is second only to that of Timothy McVeigh.

) It is the only biography authorized by McVeigh himself, and was based on 75 hours of interviews that the authors had with McVeigh.

In October 1994, McVeigh showed Michael Fortier and his wife, Lori, a diagram he had drawn of the bomb he wanted to build.

According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).

McVeigh was introduced to firearms by his grandfather, and told people he wanted to be a gun shop owner and sometimes took firearms to school to impress his classmates.

While McVeigh wanted to specifically target federal agents, the bombing killed many innocent civilians, including 19 children.

It is claimed that while visiting friends in Decker, Michigan, McVeigh complained that the Army had implanted a microchip into his buttocks so that the government could keep track of him.

" McVeigh lived with Michael Fortier in Kingman, Arizona, for a spell and grew so close to him that he served as best man at Fortier's wedding.

McVeigh instructed his lawyers to use a necessity defense, but they ended up not doing so, because they would have had to prove that McVeigh was in " imminent danger " from the government.

McVeigh dropped his remaining appeals, giving no reason for doing so.

During the closing arguments, the prosecutor argued for the death penalty, stating that 161 people had died so that Nichols and McVeigh " could make a political statement ".

Sukyo Mahikari teaches that the Japanese emperor sent emissaries throughout the world to lead civilizations in regions such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, so that every place on earth was influenced by the ancient Japanese ( McVeigh 74 ).

On June 6, federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed.

McVeigh remarked about Nichols's and Fortier's partial withdrawal from the plot, saying they " were men who liked to talk tough, but in the end their bitches and kids ruled.

McVeigh argued that " imminent " does not mean " immediate ": " If a comet is hurtling toward the earth, and it's out past the orbit of Pluto, it's not an immediate threat to Earth, but it is an imminent threat.

In addition to arguing that the bombing could not have been carried out by two men alone, Jones also attempted to create reasonable doubt by arguing that no one had seen McVeigh near the scene of the crime, and that the investigation into the bombing had lasted only two weeks.

McVeigh had indeed contemplated the assassinations of Attorney General Janet Reno, Lon Horiuchi, and others in preference to attacking a building, and after the bombing he said that he sometimes wished he had carried out a series of assassinations instead.

For the five months following the Waco Siege, McVeigh worked at gun shows and handed out free cards printed up with Lon Horiuchi's name and address, " in the hope that somebody in the Patriot movement would assassinate the sharpshooter.

In between watching coverage of the Waco siege on TV, Nichols and his brother began teaching McVeigh how to make explosives out of readily available materials ; specifically, they combined household chemicals in plastic jugs.

Timothy McVeigh about to be led out of a Perry, Oklahoma courthouse two days after the Oklahoma City bombing

McVeigh read Unintended Consequences and noted that if it had come out a few years earlier, he would have given serious consideration to using sniper attacks in a war of attrition against the government instead of bombing a federal building:

In December 1991, Nichols invited McVeigh to join him in Michigan and help him out selling military surplus at gun shows.

In an interview on PBS, Lee Kuan Yew pointed out that each bomb would be twice the size of the one detonated by Timothy McVeigh at the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City.

After Feguer's death, it would be nearly 40 years until the next federal execution – that of Timothy McVeigh, carried out on June 11, 2001, in Terre Haute, Indiana.

After the Oklahoma City bombing it was reported that Timothy McVeigh had taken out a classified advertisement in The Spotlight in August 1993 under the name " T. Tuttle " and had used a telephone card purchased from the newspaper.

Ogdon and Diana McVeigh developed a performing version of the piece from Elgar's manuscript, which was full of corrections, crossings out and additions.

Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was housed at ADX before he was sentenced to death in 1997 and transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, which houses federal death row.

Writing in The Washington Post, longtime Book World reviewer Paul di Filippo states, “ Overall, the Weisses exhibit fine taste and editorial restraint, although ... their selection of the opening piece is puzzling ... But then a challenging story such as John H. Ritter's ‘ Baseball in Iraq ( Being the True Story of the Ghost of Gunnery Sergeant T. J. McVeigh )’ comes along and dispels all cant and cliché with its elegant portrayal of the reviled terrorist working out his karma .”

In the next 3 seasons McVeigh was a stand out performer for Essendon, with a high disposal & efficiency rate he was one of the clubs main contributors and eventually was to become apart of the Leadership group and a role model to his younger rookies.

After receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing, she was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues.

American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing ( 2001 ) is a book by Buffalo, New York journalists Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck that chronicles the life of Timothy McVeigh from his childhood in Pendleton, New York, to his military experiences in the Persian Gulf War, to his preparations for and carrying out of the Oklahoma City bombing, to his trial and death row experience.

McVeigh got very few opportunities under Grant and was loaned out to Burnley for the last few months of the season where he scored 3 goals helping them to survive in the championship.