Question

That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point. Timothy McVeigh, on why he did not plan the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building at night when there would be fewer people inside.
Which of the following makes a true statement?
a. McVeigh was a foreign terrorist working with the Al-Qaeda network to destroy U.S. federal property.
b. McVeigh was a domestic terrorist who had expressed hatred for the U.S. government and the military.
c. McVeigh was a domestic terrorist who was taught by Al-Qaeda that killing innocents was most effective.
d. McVeigh was a foreign terrorist who had obtained U.S. citizenship in order to carry out terror attacks.

Answer 1

Answer:

b. McVeigh was a domestic terrorist who had expressed hatred for the U.S. government and the military.

Explanation:

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma on April 19, 1995, was a domestic terror attack by a right-wing terrorist Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator Terry Nichols, both ex-military. The idea was a result of McVeigh's discontent with the U.S. government about its foreign policy and its dealing with the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 siege of the religious sect's Branch Dravidians' compound in Texas.

More famously known as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the attack by McVeigh led to the deaths of more than a hundred people including children and more injured. He used a rental truck filled with explosives, parked it on the northern side of the building and the blast took out most of the north side of the whole building. And the most gruesome part of the bombing was that he detonated the bomb just when the day's business was starting, meaning that he had intended to hurt and kill as many lives as he can, justified by his statement "We needed a body count to make our point" and the intention of not attacking at night because "there would be fewer people inside."

Thus, the correct answer is option b.