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Still, there was also a willingness to try to heal thorns in the flesh. Arizona Senator John McCain proposed that the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings into the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, a shared emblem of pain among antigovernment zealots. That disaster, said McCain, "fanned the flames of distrust." Indeed, the general perception that the federal action was justified may come in for serious revisionism. In an article in the May issue of the religious journal First Things, Dean Kelley, a respected legal scholar, reviews the records of the siege and questions the need...
...paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators have told Time that McVeigh possesses some $10,000 in cash and bank accounts. The money, along with the precision and power of the explosion...
Dozens of FBI agents and local police swarmed into a motel in Carthage, Mo., at dawn today, arresting two men sought as witnesses inthe Oklahoma City bombing. Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks were found when their white 1981 Thunderbird with Arizona plates, registered to Land, was spotted in the motel lot last night. Authorities believe the men were associates ofbombing suspect Timothy McVeighand witnesses to the explosion. FBI officials say both men are cooperating with the investigation, and neither is John Doe No. 2.The Oklahoma Explosion Page
Meanwhile, federal investigators are now focusing their attention on Kingman, Arizona, where McVeigh lived in a trailer park for five months last year with a pregnant girlfriend. During that period, officials say, a small bomb exploded in a residential area, damaging the windows of some houses but causing no injuries. Government agents are examining soil samples and fragments from the area for clues that may link the Arizona explosion to McVeigh. According to the New York Times, authorities were alerted to the Arizona connection when they tracked the paperwork on his 9-mm Glock handgun. McVeigh had filed a complaint...
...Herington, Kan. home of Terry Nichols, the DallasMorning Newsreported today. FBI agents are also searching a lake near Herington where a witness saw a Ryder truck days before the bombing. Authorities believe the ingredients needed to make the bomb could have been assembled at the lake. Arizona state police announced the FBI is looking for a 1982 white Thunderbird, Arizona plate JWK923, driven by Gary Allen Land, who may have been a witness to the bombing. Also today, the FBI released athird sketch of John Doe 2, with the added information that the man the FBI is seeking is "very...