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This wasn't the first time we've morally transgressed on a news story. Weren't you kind of hoping the ATF-Koresh standoff would go on forever? And--at least when he was the sunglassed gangster in the hoodie and not the Manson-like recluse--the Unabomber? And Desmond Pfeiffer? Maybe I'm alone on that...
...search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with a gun, they finally let people leave, filing back out into the sunshine, past the ambulances and fire trucks and microphones, while the FBI, Secret Service, ATF and D.C. police arrived to join in the search for evidence and answers...
MURPHY, North Carolina: They?re calling off some of the bloodhounds in the woods up in the Smoky Mountains, as the FBI and ATF scale down their search for Alabama abortion-clinic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph. The reason is that in its fourth week, the nature of the manhunt is changing: ?As much as they like to talk about how vast and dense those woods are, chances are that if Rudolph were hiding in a cave or behind some trees they would have found him by now,? says TIME correspondent Greg Fulton...
...that while there is a "psychological connection," it is still too early to draw any firm parallels. The bombs used in the two Atlanta attacks were pipe bombs packed with nails, and their resemblance could possibly indicate a single perpetrator. There is still no word from the FBI or ATF on the type of device used in Birmingham...
However, the major flaw of Waco: The Rules of Engagement is its failure to extend its blame past the ATF. The film concentrates on the ATF to the almost complete exclusion of any other influences. There are few glimpses or references to Attorney General Janet Reno, and even fewer to President Clinton. What role, positive or negative, did these figures have in the conflict? The film fails to provide an adequate answer...