Charleston, Virginia (Alternity)

Charleston, Virginia is the fifth largest city in the US state of Virginia and the largest in western Virginia, with a population of 51,000 (metro pop. 300,000). It is notable as the site of the 1986 bombings that killed 91 and injured hundreds when multiple truck and car bombs detonated in downtown Charleston. The fanatical anti-government militia leader Michael Raines, who was finally apprehended in the conclusion of an FBI undercover investigation on June 5, 1997, has been convicted as leader of the plots that resulted in the '86 Charleston and '95 Oklahoma City bombings.