Bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. And they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. Weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of some sawedoff shotguns to Law Enforcement. Now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the National Guard have surrounded the house. This is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in north idaho. We all have guns in our houses. We all have guns buried someplace. Northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from the problems of civilization and from civilization itself. Hes not a terrorist. Hes not endangering anybody. Everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving Christian Family man. Never before has Northern Idaho witnessed this kind of fire power from the federal government. What should have been a relatively routine arrest went very badly wrong. There was a shootout in which
weavers 14yearold son sammy and a dog and a u. S. Marshal all ended up dead. An fbi sharpshooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. Fbi agents are trained to shoot only to protect themselves or others. The Rules Of Engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. Decisions were made within the fbi which allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. It was completely unjustifiable. Put a bullet in my head hey, ill make it easy. Ill turn my back on you. Baby killer not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right. But they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities had just left him alone. Ruby ridge was not a story that was on the front page of national newspapers. Most people didnt know about it at all, but it absolutely did energize the radical right. The siege ended at 12 15 when randall weaver and his three
children walked off the mountain after 11 days. There is all this tremendous ferment that is arising precisely because of the end of the cold war. This mindset that the United States government is the enemy breeds almost a decade of violence. In langley, virginia today, right outside Cia Headquarters, a young man with a rifle opened fire on a number of people who were in their cars. No one would ever think that a situation like a shooting of cia personnel would happen on their front doorstep. The shooter escapes. Two cia employees were shot to death in virginia. A pakistani suspect is reported to be back in pakistan. They figure out his name, mir qazi. But they dont know where to peg him. Who is he working for . What organization . In the 1970s we were dealing with Terrorist Groups. In this case there was no group that could be identified. This was the actions of one single individual. We did not realize that terrorism seemed to be moving in a new direction. [ sirens ] a Mysterious Explosion Underground has spread fire and smoke and terror throughout the gigantic world trade towers today. At 18 minutes after noon, something terrible happened here in lower manhattan. Counterterrorism sources tell cnn they now suspect the explosion was caused by a car bomb. The bombing was designed to bring down the north tower and the north tower then falling into the south tower. It did not, of course, collapse the towers. But it did kill six people and injure over 1,000 more. I was very concerned. Anything like that, any accident, tragedy, anything of moment you feel it very personally. The thing thats most amazing
is that more people werent killed, especially having occurred at the house that it did and the place that it did. President clinton had just come into office. I was in new york as ambassador at the united nations. Theres no way to fully explain how all of a sudden the mood changed. Ill put the full resources of the federal government, every conceivable Law Enforcement information resource we can put to work on this we have. Im very concerned about it. Federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily on the possibility of the explosion being the work of foreign terrorists. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a signal of how the extremist war that had been limited largely to the middle east was coming to the american shores. Tonight, six days after the bombing at the World Trade Center, one suspect is in custody. More arrests are said to be coming. The investigators found the vin number of the ryder truck, and it turned out that one of the collaborators had returned there to ask for his 400 deposit back. Would convert semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic weapons, which were illegal. The atf decided it was time to go in. Take the shot. Get the hell off of here. Four federal agents died in the Sunday Morning Shootout there in texas. 16 others were wounded. Almost 100 heavily armed cult members remain inside this sprawling compound. Cult leader david koresh says the standoff will continue until god tells him to come out. Koresh proclaimed himself to be a prophet. The waco tribune began to publish a series of articles about what they called the sinful messiah, who loves music and who will drink a beer with you and who also happens to have sex with underage girls and who has a lot of weapons. It makes Nobodys Business whether we have a gun or not. Guns are the right of americans to have. Cult members continue fortifying their compound, an indication there is no plan to surrender anytime soon. The showdown moves into its 18th day. This is day 20 of the standoff. This was day 32. Negotiations between the cult and fbi agents have stalled. It was all waco all the time. Every newscast, every newspaper, every Radio Newscast is filled with this showdown. David koresh becomes a household name, and many people are inspired by him. He is taking it to the u. S. Government. He is not going to stand down. And people drive to waco to show their support. Things had reached a point partly because of the publicity that something had to give right away. An update on the 51day standoff. Early this morning Armored Vehicles entered cult leader David Koreshs compound and began punching large holes in the walls. A decision was made to inject cs gas, a kind of tear gas on steroids. All america along with all of Law Enforcement on the scene is waiting for people to come out. Suddenly, out of one of the
second floor windows, flames burst forth. And as you can see, it looks like at this point the entire compound is just engulfed. I have never in my life seen anything burn that way. It just went up in this massive fireball. There are no signs at this point of any people coming out of the building. The images are horrible. You had the federal government of the United States using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. Its not what we do in the United States. And yet in many ways the Clinton Administration felt that koresh had left them no alternative. The offender there was david koresh. And i do not think the United States government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves. And im sorry that they killed their children. It was proved later that the davidians lit that building on fire themselves. But there were literally millions of americans who
absolutely believed that the government had murdered those people. This whole situation started with violence. It was not justified, not provoked when the atf went in there. And it ended in violence that was not justified and not provoked. Waco was Proof Positive to many of these people that this was an aggressive, predatory federal government and now we have to fight back, like the minutemen in 1776, to bear arms to defend their own rights. This is the michigan militia, a selfproclaimed Fighting Force of ordinary citizens preparing to defend themselves against the federal government. You will be receiving live fire over your heads this morning. Theres also an armed militia here in indiana, and at least 20 other states. Wed always had a radical right. But in the 90s it really entered the mainstream. Gun shows became an extremely important venue, not just for selling guns, but theyre selling reallife nazi
literature along with Survivalist Handbooks and all that kind of thing. So youre prepared for a conflict with the federal government . Yes, we are prepared to defend our homes, our families, our children, our lives, our property, yes. Americans are largely ignorant of whats happening in the heartland with regard to this militia movement. And there is an extremist element of this which would not have been on anybodys radar. And thats what made them so dangerous. We do have a Special Report from nbc news. There has been a massive explosion at a Federal Building in Oklahoma City, oklahoma. We have no way to tell at the moment how many casualties there are. Though it was an explosion felt 30 miles away. Rescue workers are desperately trying to save any remaining lives. You can see the side of the building is all down. On april 19th when i got to Oklahoma City, the building was still on fire, and there were a whole lot of cars around the building that had also exploded. It was unbelievable. Amid the horror of the bombing its the dead and wounded children that have
stunned and angered the nation. The motive behind the madness is unknown at this hour. The governor of oklahoma says two things are known for sure. Those who did this knew what they were doing, and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. I am pleased to announce that one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesdays terrible attack in Oklahoma City has been arrested. Timothy mcveigh, age 27. The shock around the country was huge. This was an act of terrorism by one of our own citizens. A second man was charged today with blowing up the Federal Building. Terry nichols, who has been in custody since just after the bombing. Timothy mcveigh and Terry Nichols met in the army. Mcveigh had fought in the first persian gulf war. He left the military very disillusioned. The one thing that sustained him
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lone wolves. It really was the proverbial needle in a haystack. All authorities have to go on is a composite sketch of a white male believed to be in his 40s. He wasnt the only bomber we had investigated before. But his long solitary operation as a serial bomber was so unique. Unabomb hotline . So far thousands of tips phoned into the San FranciscoUnabomb Task Force have led nowhere. We began an entirely new look at this, an entirely new strategy. We brought in a crew of analysts from fbi headquarters. They worked 24 7, but sadly it happened again. [ siren ] a mail bomb explodes inside the California Forestry Association building. The killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing Package Bombs if the newspapers will publish his political theories. When we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly that we should publish this. We think someone out there will
actually recognize these words. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. So begins a surprising eightpage addition to the Washington Post this morning. Someone does recognize these crazed writings and turns him in to the authorities. The longest and most intense manhunt in history has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. The big concern was are there booby traps . Are there explosives on the property . So we had to be very careful. We were knocking on the door of the cabin. He started to close the door and say let me get my coat and come out. And as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in. And on the morning of april 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski was taken out of his cabin. Are you the unabomber . Are you the unabomber . Fbi agents today searched the home of a 53yearold former mathematics teacher named Theodore Kaczynski. The onsite investigation has yielded a cache of evidence. It was the most incredible moment. We knew that this long journey of 18 years was over. Mike wallace and i together on 60 minutes interviewed kaczynskis family, who had turned him in. I was feeling something that i didnt really expect to feel at all, which was a deep sense of unease, fear. Because of what you read . Because of what i read. Because it sounded like ted . Because it had sounded enough like him that i could not say to myself or to linda that this is not teds writing. What can you do . You cant risk more lives. Dave couldnt. None of us could. Apparently some lives were saved. For when the fbi arrested ted kaczynski, they say they found a live bomb wrapped under his bed, ready for mailing. The only thing missing was a name and address. Get your usa flags, Everybody Needs to have a flag. Three for one hats, tshirts. In july 1996, when the olympics were being hosted in atlanta, there was a tremendous concern about terrorist attacks. The security for the park was carefully coordinated. Its all taking place in the midst of secu