"Moving closer to the hard core of the Organisation, Turner is recruited to blow up the FBI national headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is to be done with a truck-bomb loaded with 44 100lb bags of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, sensitised with oil, triggered by 400lbs of dynamite. (In his Playboy 'confession', McVeigh recalled that his Ryder truck was loaded with 80 50lb bags of ammonium nitrate and 55 one-gallon barrels of nitromethane racing fuel, triggered by dynamite stolen from a quarry.) Turner parks his truck in the building’s basement and the subsequent explosion kills 700 people. Turner is momentarily disturbed by the civilian casualties, but decides that "there is no way we can destroy the System without hurting many thousands of innocent people ... if we don't cut this cancer out of our living flesh our whole race will die.""
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John Sutherland "Higher Man", London Review of Books, 19:10 (May 22, 1997)
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The Turner Diaries
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 short novel by Andrew Macdonald (pseudonym of William Luther Pierce, leader of the white supremacist National Alliance). The book depicts a violent revolution in the United States leading to the overthrow of the federal government, a nuclear war, and ultimately a genocide (via the systematic extermination of non-Europeans in the USA) committed by a revolutionary movement known as the Organization. The book was implicated in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, perpetuated
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