OKLAHOMA CITY — A 23-year-old man who was "out for blood" when attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank in a plot similar to the deadly 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building is expected to be formally charged Monday, authorities said. Federal officials said Jerry Drake Varnell of
Oklahoma Man Arrested In Attempted Domestic Terrorism Attack
The would-be bomber prepared a Facebook statement to be posted after the explosion which reads in part that the attack was “retaliation against the freedoms that have been taken away from the American people.”