. Five people died and 34 were injured.
. Those killed were Anthony
Berry MP, Roberta Wakeham, Eric Taylor, Muriel Maclean and Jeanne Shattock.
. The bomb had been planted several weeks earlier by Patrick Magee, who checked
into the hotel under a false name.
. He was caught and sentenced to 35 years. Four members of an IRA "active service unit" were also jailed for involvement in the plot.
. In prison Magee got a first class Open University degree in fiction and its portrayal of the Troubles.
. He was released in 1999, under the Good Friday Agreement, a move described by one Downing Street spokesperson as "very hard to stomach".
. It was a direct bomb attack on the British Government at the Conservative party conference in Brighton.
. The blast tore apart the Brighton Grand Hotel where members of the Cabinet have been staying for the Conservative party conference.
. The statement read: "Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once; you will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no war." - shows the terrorists were not Muslim.
. He was caught and sentenced to 35 years. Four members of an IRA "active service unit" were also jailed for involvement in the plot.
. In prison Magee got a first class Open University degree in fiction and its portrayal of the Troubles.
. He was released in 1999, under the Good Friday Agreement, a move described by one Downing Street spokesperson as "very hard to stomach".
. It was a direct bomb attack on the British Government at the Conservative party conference in Brighton.
. The blast tore apart the Brighton Grand Hotel where members of the Cabinet have been staying for the Conservative party conference.
. The statement read: "Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once; you will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no war." - shows the terrorists were not Muslim.
Oklahoma bombing: 1995
. The Oklahoma bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children, and
injured more than 500 others.
. It took rescuers almost six weeks to recover the bodies of all the victims
from the rubble.
. Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the attack and sentenced to death by lethal injection after a two-month trial. He was executed at Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana on 11 June 2001.
. The execution was watched via cctv by about 30 people including 10 survivors of the bombing and members of the media.
. The motive for the attack was apparently retaliation against the US Government for the bloody end to a siege near Waco, Texas, in which 82 members of the Branch Davidian sect died.
. In December 1997 his former army colleague Terry Nichols was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy and sentenced to life in jail.
. A third man, Michael Fortier, confessed to knowing in advance about the bombing and was sentenced to 12 years after agreeing to be a key witness for the prosecution.
. A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma
. In an emotional speech, President Bill Clinton vowed "swift, certain and severe" punishment for those behind the atrocity.
"The United States will not tolerate and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards," he told a White House news conference this evening.
. "The State Department would not discuss the possibility of this being a terrorist attack but the FBI and Oklahoma police put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck - They suspected it would be Muslims" - BBC news
World Trade Center bombing : 1993
. A car bomb was exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York
. An emotional Mario Cuomo, New York's state governor, told journalists: "We all have that feeling of being violated. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now we were invulnerable."
. In May 1994, four men - Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj were sentenced to life for bombing the World Trade Center, which killed six people and injured 100.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0419.html - The okhlama bombing
"Clinton remembers victims of Oklahoma City bombing President leaves wreath at site of Murrah building"
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/oklahoma-city-bombing/featured/3
. Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the attack and sentenced to death by lethal injection after a two-month trial. He was executed at Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana on 11 June 2001.
. The execution was watched via cctv by about 30 people including 10 survivors of the bombing and members of the media.
. The motive for the attack was apparently retaliation against the US Government for the bloody end to a siege near Waco, Texas, in which 82 members of the Branch Davidian sect died.
. In December 1997 his former army colleague Terry Nichols was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy and sentenced to life in jail.
. A third man, Michael Fortier, confessed to knowing in advance about the bombing and was sentenced to 12 years after agreeing to be a key witness for the prosecution.
. A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma
. In an emotional speech, President Bill Clinton vowed "swift, certain and severe" punishment for those behind the atrocity.
"The United States will not tolerate and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards," he told a White House news conference this evening.
. "The State Department would not discuss the possibility of this being a terrorist attack but the FBI and Oklahoma police put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck - They suspected it would be Muslims" - BBC news
World Trade Center bombing : 1993
. A car bomb was exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York
. An emotional Mario Cuomo, New York's state governor, told journalists: "We all have that feeling of being violated. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now we were invulnerable."
. In May 1994, four men - Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj were sentenced to life for bombing the World Trade Center, which killed six people and injured 100.
. In October 1995 Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who preached at mosques in Brooklyn and Jersey City, was sentenced to life for masterminding the bombing,.
. He was also found guilty of the murder of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane and a scheme to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak during a trip to New York in 1993.
. The bombing of the World Trade Center has been totally eclipsed by the events of 11 September 2001 which saw thousands killed, the collapse of both Twin Towers and an all-out "war on terror" declared by the Western world.
. Rahman's organisation, the Islamic Group, is believed to have links to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, accused of carrying out the 11 September attacks.
Coverage of the three events :
The Okhlama Bombing :
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1980
"Jumping to Conclusions in Oklahoma City? " - American Journalism review http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0419.html - The okhlama bombing
"Clinton remembers victims of Oklahoma City bombing President leaves wreath at site of Murrah building"
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/oklahoma-city-bombing/featured/3
