-Caveat Lector- McVeigh reveals details of Oklahoma blast By Ellen Wulfhorst Tuesday April 3, 04:01 AM http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010403/80/bhonc.html NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh says he always expected to be caught, convicted and executed for the deadly 1995 blast, which he claims sent a powerful anti-government message like a "shot heard around the world," according to a new book. Awaiting his scheduled May 16 execution, McVeigh says he looks forward to his death as a relief but regrets never having a family and once asked if his sperm could be sent from prison to impregnate a woman, according to "American Terrorist" (HarperCollins) by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck. He later reconsidered, deciding the life of his child "would be hell." Of his death, McVeigh said in the book: "I'll be glad to leave this ... world. Truth is, I determined mostly through my travels that this world just doesn't hold anything for me. "I knew I wanted this before it happened," he added. "I knew my objective was a state- assisted suicide." At his execution, McVeigh said he plans to quote from "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, which reads, in part: "I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul." The two authors of "American Terrorist," both of whom work at the Buffalo News in western New York, held days of interviews and exchanged hundreds of letters with McVeigh, who was raised outside Buffalo in Pendleton, New York. McVeigh was convicted in 1997 of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City and sentenced to death. Saying he had expected to be caught, McVeigh said he purposely left anti-government literature in his car. MCVEIGH EXPECTED TO BE EXECUTED He told a prison psychiatrist: "I expect to be convicted for the bombing, and I expect to receive the death penalty." The bomb, which he describes in detail assembling in the back of a rented truck, killed 168 people, including 19 children. In quotes released last week from the book, McVeigh said he considered the children's deaths "collateral damage" but regretted they may have soured the public response to his act. Markedly stoic during his federal trial in Denver, McVeigh revealed he was frequently furious during the proceedings. "There were times when I felt like jumping to my feet and screaming, 'Knock it off! Everyone here knows I'm guilty! Let's get on with it!'" he said. McVeigh said he was angered by his defence team, led by attorney Stephen Jones, whom he felt was disorganised and publicity-seeking and who would not let him mount his "necessity defence" -- that he bombed the Murrah building because America was in imminent danger at the hands of its government. McVeigh also said he grew angry when prosecutor Joseph Hartzler called him a coward. Sparking his anger, according to McVeigh and to prosecutors, was the 1993 government siege and raid in Waco, Texas, that led to the deaths of Branch Davidian cult members. "NO BIG CONSPIRACY" "To these people in Oklahoma who have lost a loved one, I'm sorry but it happens every day," he said. "You're not the first mother to lose a kid, or the first grandparent to lose a grandson or granddaughter. It happens every day, somewhere in the world. I'm not going to go into that courtroom, curl into a foetal ball, and cry just because the victims want me to do that." McVeigh did reserve sympathy for Terry Nichols, convicted for helping plan the bombing, and Michael Fortier, who admitted knowing about the bombing and reached a plea deal with the government in exchange for testifying against McVeigh. "There was no big conspiracy. It was mostly me. The few friends who helped me were acting under duress, and none of them had any control over when I was going to blow up the Murrah building," McVeigh said. He said Nichols helped him buy ingredients and assemble the bomb only after McVeigh threatened him and his family. Filling in gaps prior to the bombing, McVeigh said he slept in the truck the night before, parked near a roadside motel in northern Oklahoma. He said he originally planned to blow up the building at 11 a.m. but moved the explosion two hours earlier because he did not want to risk staying by the motel any longer. Had he not been caught, McVeigh considered a campaign of murdering individual government officials, the book said. In prison, he became acquainted with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, and the book contains a letter in which Kaczynski said he liked McVeigh but found the Murrah bombing "unnecessarily inhumane." "A more effective protest could have been made with far less harm to innocent people," Kaczynski wrote. 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