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...bombing occurred on the second anniversary of the FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, leading some to conclude that supporters of David Koresh's organization might be responsible...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that the two men thought to have rented the truck used in the bombing used a fake South Dakota drivers' license with a birthdate of April 19 -- the same day as theBranch Davidian disaster in Waco, Tx., as well as the Oklahoma City explosion. The name on the license was Robert D. Kling of 428 Maple Drive, Omaha, Neb., Barnes reports. There is no Robert D. Kling and there is no such address. However, two men named Robert Kling, one in Iowa, the other in Omaha, told TIME that the FBI had contacted them this...
...theWorld Trade Center attack two years ago. The explosion occurred shortly after 9 a.m. and could be felt as far as 30 miles away. Debris was spread over a wide area of downtown. The explosion came on the second anniversary of the end of thefederal siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, though it is not yet known whether that fact is relevant. The Murrah building houses the offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and there has been speculation that the bombing might be in retaliation for what happened at Waco. Other speculation pegs...
...suspicions of most Japanese are true, and the cult is responsible for the subway atrocity, it would embody something much more sinister than even the Branch Davidian group led by David Koresh, who ultimately posed his most deadly danger to his own followers. The subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity, as if Koresh had somehow become melded with the Tylenol killer. It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them. Or put another way, garden-variety madness...
...signs of foul play, at least some of the deaths may have been suicides, part of one more episode in cult pathology to put beside the weird tragedies at Jonestown, Guyana, and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A victim was found with a letter to her family explaining that she had come to Switzerland to die. Jean-Francois Mayer, a Swiss authority on cults, made public three letters he said were posted to him by cult members before the fire. "We are leaving this earth," read one, "to rediscover, lucidly and freely, a dimension of truth and absoluteness...