Word: atf
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Though much is still not known about the men behind the deed, what is clear is that the very institutions they despise--the FBI, the ATF--were able to mobilize their forces with astonishing efficiency. The investigation depended, certainly, on serendipity, but it also proceeded with teamwork and precision When news of the blast came, disbelief turned rapidly into a blur of activity. Pentagon aides rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals...
...Terry Nichols making an exploding bottle bomb at his residence in 1992, using brake fluid, gasoline and diesel fuel." The affidavit also says Daniel Stomber, a nearby resident, heard James Nichols say that "judges and President Clinton should be killed, and that he blamed the FBI and the ATF for killing theBranch Davidians in Waco." None of the charges bear directly on Wednesday's bombing. After police released a revised sketch of the second suspect, known as "John Doe 2," the manager of the Great Western Motel in Junction City, Kan., said today that the man had been there...
According to Mark Logan, the assistant special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the ATF bureau, the bomber may work in a "somewhat eccentric" way at his job, though authorities can't say what that job is. Many suspect he may have some connection to a university. The package that killed Mosser had a fictitious return address typed on it -- "H.C. Wickel, Department of Economics, San Francisco State University" -- that has so far yielded nothing...
...called "unabomber" and are relying completely on help from the public, a source tells TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson. Since the mailbomb killing Sunday of a Madison Ave. executive in North Caldwell, N.J., investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Postal Service have received about 500 calls with tips on the bomber, an ATF source told Jackson. "It takes time tracking them down, but they are still appealing to the public to call in with tips," says Jackson. "They have no clues." Two they have: the San Francisco postmark...
...proving any defendant had fired any of the fatal shots, prosecutors charged them with conspiracy to murder, in addition to murder. Conspiracy would require the jury to decide they had been involved in an agreement or a plan to ambush the agents. Calling more than 120 witnesses, including ATF agents, Texas Rangers and gun dealers, prosecutors tried to prove the 10 men and one woman on trial -- three of whom were away from the compound on the day of the shooting -- knew in advance of the impending ATF raid and were bent on killing federal officers...