Inside the PLOT

摘要

The bombing had apparently been in the works for months. Last December Tim McVeigh and his army buddy Mike Fortier cased the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Witnesses, Newsweek has learned, have told federal investigators that the two men visited each floor of the nine-story building, posing as job-seekers in the offices of the federal agencies—the IRS, the Small Business Administration, the ATF—located there. They would have had a hard time not noticing the America's Kids day-care center on the second floor, festooned as it was with Christmas decorations pasted together by toddlers.