Word: atf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsible for two bombings at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa last week. "There is evidence, and it's evidence that could identify a suspect at some point," cautioned a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent scouring the firebombed clinic in Tulsa. Especially worrisome to the ATF and the FBI are the two bombs that went off outside a suburban Atlanta clinic last Thursday. They were powerful pipe bombs, explosive devices anybody with some expertise can easily assemble. Shannon notes: ?The Atlanta incident is particularly worrisome because of the timing of the second bomb, which was clearly intended...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: "Perhaps the fact that they look like joints interests the young people." Beedies cost from $2.50 to $3 per pack of 20. (A pack of unfiltered Camels can range from $1.25 to $3.15.) Why the expense for such tiny smokes? In 1994 the ATF reclassified beedies as cigarettes rather than cigars, thus imposing a tax rate about 10 times as high as was previously charged. Though they may have cult status in America, beedies have little cachet back in India, where more than 800 billion are smoked each year. They remain what they have...
...dressed up in Army fatigues and stuff," recalls Don Touvell Jr., a dental-office worker who was recruited by the Vipers but declined to join. "They did talk in front of me about how they felt about having their guns. [Nelson] carried on all the time that if the ATF came and tried to take his guns from his house, he would defend himself. But I thought it was all talk...
...officials were concerned it was more than talk, so the ATF reportedly recruited an employee of the Arizona state game and fish department as an infiltrator (his name is secret for fear of reprisal). Knowing the area and possessed of extensive firearms training, he could talk the talk. According to the Arizona Republic, his beard and tattoos completed the picture...
...could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare" and "race riots and martial law," the ATF moved...