Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
Timothy McVeigh was most emphatically a terrorist. He was even lower than low because the Murrah Federal Building had nothing to do with the Department of Justice, the agency that ordered the Waco operation. Since McVeigh had a beef with Janet Reno, he should have bombed DOJ headquarters in D.C. In bombing the Murrah Federal Building, McVeigh killed and injured many innocent senior citizens there for Social Security issues and children at a daycare on site. I am confident that McVeigh is in hell along with Mohammed Atta, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
All that being said, the other factors in my earlier post are still true. We did not experience any terrorist attacks aimed at transportation until 9/11, when al-Qaida terrorists, not Americans, attacked our country.
Not quite true:
"November 15, 1979
American Airlines Flight 444
A mail bomb is sent from a post office in Chicago, and placed aboard an American Airlines flight bound for Washington, D.C. The bomb, equipped with a barometer to measure altitude, explodes as the plane reaches 34,500 feet."
Sounds like a terrorist attack upon US commercial aviation to me...