The Oklahoma City bombing memorial will remove all references to that blast as the "worst" terror act on US soil, in the wake of this week's attacks in New York and Washington, officials said yesterday.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial consists of a museum chronicling the April 1995 blast that killed 168 people and a park-like memorial square on the former site of the federal office building targeted by the anti-government truck bomb driven by Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh was executed in June.
"Our materials stating that the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack on American soil will be revised, " the memorial said on its Web site www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org.
Hundreds of people have been confirmed dead and almost 5,000 reported missing in Tuesday's attacks, which toppled the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and tore a hole in the Pentagon.
Mourners at a service for the latest victims, held at the Oklahoma memorial, said it was staggering that the bloodshed of six years ago could be overshadowed. "We just can't imagine it, a 100-fold of what happened here," said Richard Williams, former assistant building manager of the Federal Building, who was injured in that blast.