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...money, along with the precision and power of the explosion, are leading the feds to believe that McVeigh and his missing accomplice -- still known only as John Doe No. 2 -- were far from lone bombers. Instead the feds suspect the men were members of some sort of organized extremist group that provided them with financial and tactical support. McVeigh, say federal law-enforcement officials, could not have masterminded the plot alone. "He's not smart enough to have thought it would come out the way it did," one investigator told TIME...
...have started fighting for voters, creating such a political hullabaloo that it is difficult to sort things out. As a result, sometimes those who are not the right people get into the State Duma. Therefore, we decided to cut off both the left and the right wings of the extremist movement and create two centrist blocs, because as you understand, one centrist bloc would be too big. This would be a model of the bipartisan system you have had for the past 200 years, resulting in a civilized state based on civilized principles. It will be a powerful force that...
There were tragedies in early April that affected innocent civilians. On April 9, joint extremist Irgun and Lechi forces captured the village of Deir Yassin and killed over 250 Arabs, mostly women and children. Already at the time, without waiting for 50 years, without American pressure and with no need for letterhead faxes, the official Zionist bodies expressed their execration of this act, which in their view went beyond the intrinsic savagery of war. Indeed, due to the singularly aberrant nature of the event, whenever the Arabs henceforward had something against the Jews, the banner `Deir Yassin' was raised...
Like other political movements before it, the radical right in America today has its extremist component, which plainly was a force in the 1994 elections. For instance, George Nethercutt, the giant-slayer Congressman who knocked off former House Speaker Tom Foley in Washington State, drew strength from radio shows where callers talked about sightings of black helicopters and U.N. plans to set up a secret compound in the state. In neighboring Idaho, Helen Chenoweth upended an environmentalist Democratic incumbent in part by saying that the only endangered species was the "white Anglo-Saxon male...
...this is common stuff in many parts of the country. It is several giant steps from this movement to the extremist-fringe thinking that seems to have bred the Oklahoma City bombing. That frame of mind appeals to a hard-bitten and alienated segment of society that has found a voice lately in millennial movements like the Christian Patriots and the state "militias," largely in the Middle West and West. The militias may be--as they strongly claim to be-composed largely of yeoman states'--righters energized over the threat to the Second Amendment. But they have also fostered viciously...