What was the motivation behind Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichol's bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995?

McVeigh and Nichols were motivated by anti-government, anti-federalist beliefs and opposition to what they viewed as federal overreach. Their bombing of the Murrah Federal Building was intended to strike at the federal government, not to protest the First Gulf War or provoke a war with Afghanistan. The best answer is “to demonstrate opposition against an increasingly authoritarian federal government.”

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