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Acts of Terror
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The newspapers of Friday, April 21, 1995, are curiosities. By then the front pages were beginning to make sense of the bombing two days earlier of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Sketches of John Does I and II stared out from these pages, alongside details of the mounting death toll and FBI manhunt.
“Intelligence-gathering is important. But to say that is to see the danger that the Government–and the public, too–will pick out some groups as suspect. That can lead to guilt by association: harassment of people with a Middle East background, say.” –Anthony Lewis, New York Times.
“Ramzi Yousef, the organizer of the World Trade Center bombing, was an expert bomb maker dispatched to the United States from abroad to organize a terrorist strike. He exploited a small group of Arab immigrants whose zealotry was exceeded only by their incompetence. . . . If the Oklahoma bombing follows the same pattern, the foreign sponsors will have covered their trail carefully, leaving only the support cells of local adherents to face the prosecutor.” –Vincent M. Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counterterrorism operations, in the Boston Globe.
