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CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: Seven people with connections to a West Virginia militia group were arrested Friday and accused of plotting to blow up a new FBI fingerprinting records complex. Most of the seven are members of the West Virginia-based Mountaineer Militia. The group had targeted an almost-completed $200 million dollar FBI facility in Clarksburg that is designed to speed up fingerprint checks and provide automated criminal record-keeping for background checks.The plot was led by Floyd Raymond Looker, the commander of the Mountaineer Militia who has accused federal agents of orchestrating the Oklahoma City bombing as an excuse...
...Thirty years down the line, we'll have identified a hundred or so genes that predispose to many common diseases," predicts Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the molecular-biology department at the University of Washington. "So we'll be able to do a genetic fingerprint showing your potential future health history, and we'll have preventive measures that can circumvent whatever limitations your genes impose on you." Looking even further ahead, Haseltine anticipates the use of genes "to regenerate, replace and repair what's broken...
Jewell has no job now except for waiting, as the FBI examines articles seized from his home, especially his tools, which may offer evidence of a bomb's assembly. "Tools make peculiar marks," says an agent. "You can match them like a fingerprint." Voiceprints are much less exact, so it cannot be determined with scientific accuracy that Jewell's voice does or does not match the 911 caller's. The FBI is also said to be questioning some of Jewell's friends. Still, a week of sleuthing had unearthed no immediately incriminating evidence...
...obstruct justice by keeping them from investigators? Starr's investigators are trying to answer these questions. Aide Carolyn Huber, who found the records in January, was questioned a few months ago by a Little Rock grand jury; Mrs. Clinton testified under subpoena in Washington last winter. Starr's official fingerprint analysis of the documents hasn't yet been released, but if her prints turn up, so what? They were, after all, her documents...
While the FBI worked to analyze a partial fingerprint on a fragment of the bomb, the Cambridge police department searched for a suspect but never found...