Monday's arrest of five men accused of aiming to bomb an Ohio bridge raises disturbing questions about the attraction to violence of some contemporary anarchists. But it also offers critical lessons to Americans about the nature of the domestic terrorist threat they face?a threat more diverse in its ideological origins than commonly appreciated.
The Obama administration is proposing rules to govern the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate, a potentially explosive substance that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and reportedly was a component in the July bomb attack on a government building in Oslo, Norway.
The threat of domestic terrorist attacks in the United States similar to last week's fatal bombing and assault in Norway is significant and growing, analysts said Monday.
A clean-cut young man buys tons of fertilizer, which he uses to create a huge bomb. He puts it into a box truck, brings it into the middle of the city, and then sets off a massive, and deadly, blast.
CNN's Diana Magnay talks to survivors of a shooting spree that left dozens dead at a political camp for youth in Norway.
Veteran director Barry Levinson has been tapped to direct a "political thriller" based on the 1995 bombing of a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma voters are considering an unusual question that will appear on their ballots this Tuesday: whether Islamic law can be used in considering cases in state court.
Fifteen years ago, a bomb ripped through a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the worst homegrown terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Friends and family members mourn the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings.
Former President Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve introduces the next generation of explosive detecting dogs being used by Amtrak.
A man walks through Washington's Union Station with a backpack and puts it down by a potted plant. No one notices him.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized Thursday after some veterans groups were offended by a department report about right-wing extremism.
The DHS issues an assessment about right-wing extremism that isn't pleasing everyone. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.
The Department of Homeland Security will never monitor ideology or political beliefs, the head of the agency said Wednesday, responding to criticism of a recent report on right-wing extremist groups.
Colombian officials are blaming the FARC guerrilla group for a car bombing late Sunday at a police station in Cali that killed two people and wounded at least 14.
Viewpoint: The court's recent ruling that lethal injection is legal will give a boost to one growing category of death-row inmates: those who volunteer to die
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the nation's worst act of domestic terrorism, was put to death by lethal injection at 8:14 a.m. ET Monday.
When we first saw him, the bombing suspect was gaunt and slender in handcuffs and orange jail skivvies, his hard eyes unlit by the faintest flicker of emotion. Tim McVeigh. The name didn't mean much then but the image did. He was a poker-faced killer in a crewcut, and all across America people were asking the same question: Who is this guy?
The below statements were taken by Court TV "American Terrorist," a book about Timothy McVeigh by Buffalo News reporters Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck:
Like soldiers in a foxhole, the residents of Supermax's Unit D developed the kind of bonds that come when your days are no longer your own.
On the eve of Timothy McVeigh's execution, Courttv.com's Andy Brooks and Catherine Quayle take a trip from McVeigh's childhood home in upstate New York to Terre Haute, Indiana, where the bomber is to be executed June 11, 2001. They talk to people along the way about the deeds and death of an American terrorist.
Journalist Lou Michel, author of "American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing" talked with Court TV in a 2001 online chat.
Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols is arguing that his trial should be separated from that of his codefendant, Timothy McVeigh. In this brief filed September 5, 1996, portions of which are blacked out per the court's order not to reveal evidence, Nichols contends that he and McVeigh have antagonistic defenses -- to prove their innocence, each one must blame the other -- so trying them together will aid the prosecution. Nichols also proffers a novel argument: The jury in this death penalty trial will not be able to distinguish his case from McVeigh's, thus violating their 8th Amendment right to individualized sentencing.
The British government is considering a system of passenger profiling that includes checks on travelers' ethnic or religious background, according to media reports. CNN is appealing for e-mails on the subject. The following are a selection of your replies, some of which have been edited for length and spelling:
The British government is considering a system of passenger profiling that includes checks on travelers' ethnic or religious background, according to media reports.
Michael Fortier, the prosecution's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, will be freed this week after serving less than 11 years behind bars, a move that drew mixed reaction from victims.
Watching Eric Rudolph be sentenced to life in prison this week for his terror bombings, I wondered whether he and his followers represent the future of domestic terrorism or the past.
Since first signing on the air June 1, 1980, CNN has reported on an ever-changing world, shaped by events of great tragedy and triumph. To mark the quarter-century anniversary, CNN looks at some of the moments and people that define history over the past 25 years.
Caught on tapeupdated: Tue May 03 2005 16:26:00
The hooded man rushed up to the doorway of Temple Bnai Israel, a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Seconds later, he threw the firebomb and ran off.
On April 19, 1995, Brian Espe was working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City when a deadly bomb ripped through the facility. Ten years later, the survivor still thinks about the people lost that day.
Lone wolvesupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 10:12:00
Wolves run in packs. They hunt that way. They live that way. The lone wolf is the exception. When it comes to the world of domestic terrorism that might not be the case.
Oklahoma taxpayers spent almost $4.2 million to provide a defense for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, paying for such things as books, seminars, lawn care, coffee sweetener and an alarm system.
Some of the jurors who voted to spare Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols the death penalty did so because they felt sorry for him, another juror who supported the death penalty told CNN Saturday.
Convicted of 161 counts of murder in the Oklahoma City bombing, Terry Nichols was spared the death penalty for a second time Friday.
Jurors Thursday ended a second day of deliberations without deciding whether Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols should be sentenced to death or life in prison for his role in the 1995 attack that killed 168 people.
Closing arguments in the life-or-death penalty phase of the Terry Nichols bombing trial were under way Tuesday with a prosecutor urging jurors to sentence Nichols to death.
A state jury found Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols guilty on 161 counts of first-degree murder Wednesday in a verdict that came nearly 10 years after what was then the deadliest attack on U.S. soil.
A lawyer for bombing conspirator Terry Nichols tried Wednesday to deflate testimony from Michael Fortier -- the third former Army buddy in the Oklahoma City bombing plot -- that suggested Nichols participated in planning the 1995 attack.
Timothy McVeigh identified Oklahoma City's federal building as the target of his bomb plot in December 1994 and said he planned to destroy it "to get people's attention," the prosecution's key witness against co-conspirator Terry Nichols testified Tuesday.
The FBI is looking into a report that documents related to the Oklahoma City bombing may have been destroyed and others may never have been turned over to the head of the FBI probe or to the defense, government sources told CNN on Saturday.
Money Magazine: The Big Fixupdated: Sun Dec 01 2002 00:01:00
Controversy erupted as soon as then SEC chairman Harvey Pitt began pushing for William Webster, former director of the FBI and CIA, to head the new accounting oversight board in late October. Many ...
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