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25. Welcome to America

LOS ANGELES TIMES
APRIL 19, 1995

By RICHARD A. SERRANO
April 13, 1997 12 AM PT
Richard A. Serrano, a Times staff writer based in Washington, has been covering the Oklahoma City bombing story since they day of the explosion

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The front facade of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building had been ripped off, the top stories crashing down nine flights to the ground. Everyone was suddenly aware that there was a children’s day-care center on the second floor. “This isn’t supposed to happen in the heartland,” said a trembling Hansen. -- The total killed in the tick of a clock at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, was 168 people, including a nurse, Rebecca Anderson, who, trying to save others, was struck in the head by a piece of falling concrete.

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Across the country, Americans assumed the blast was the work of foreign terrorists. A Jordanian American from Oklahoma City, en route to visit relatives that day in the Middle East, was stopped, searched and detained. Arab immigrants living in Oklahoma and Texas were rounded up for questioning, and some were deported. The nation’s newspapers decried foreign despots and warned that a world of car bombings, hijackings and international terrorism had finally descended upon America’s shores.

Before the week was out, though, the FBI released composite sketches and all-points-bulletins for two white American males.

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