Former US President Bill Clinton has said that he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when a bomb explosion had rocked a federal building in Oklahoma City, claiming 168 lives.
Clinton was the president at that time. "There's the same kind of economic and social upheaval now," said former US president in an interview. "Then, you had the rise of extremist voices on talk radio. Here, you have a billion Internet sites," he added.
Clinton noted although the hard-core, anti-government supporters are not in majority in the country, "they can communicate with each other much faster and much better than they did before. The main thing that bothered us since the time of Oklahoma City was that already, there was enough use of the Internet that if you knew how to find a Web site -- and not everybody even had a computer back then, but if you knew how to find it, you could learn, for example, how to make a bomb."
Clinton dubbed the Oklahoma bombing as the first terror attacks on the country and said, it was the "last in a series of very high-profile violent encounters" between anti-government radicals and government in the US during 1990s.
Clinton expressed confidence that Washington was better equipped to avert such an attack now. Replying to a query, whether the mood of the people against the government is more intense than in the 1990s, Clinton said, "Now, there are all of these groups, you know, saying things like the current political debate is just a prelude to civil war, all of that kind of stuff."
