Word: kahle
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...spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon W. Kahl and two others murdered a pair of federal marshals who were trying to serve him with a warrant in North Dakota. Kahl was killed when his stores of ammunition exploded during a gun battle with police and FBI agents at a hideout in Arkansas...
...four state troopers, a dozen federal marshals and FBI agents, the sheriff and three deputies, headed four miles north of town and set up roadblocks. Then they drove a mile down a dirt road to an isolated house that resembled a bunker. There, the nationwide search for Gordon W. Kahl, 63, a retired farmer and militant tax protester, came to a fiery and bloody...
...Kahl had been wanted on murder charges since a shootout last February at Medina, N. Dak., in which two federal marshals were killed. The marshals had been trying to serve a warrant on Kahl for violating his parole on a 1977 conviction for failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes...
From the start, officials had kept a lookout on Arkansas; they knew that Kahl had spent much of last year living in the state under an assumed name. About a week ago, a man who looked like Kahl was spotted near Smithville riding in a car that belonged to the son of Leonard and Norma Ginter, who occupied the bunker-like house and were said to be sympathizers of the tax-protest movement. When Arkansas officials gathered enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, the raid was organized. As the heavily armed police officers positioned themelves around the house, Sheriff...
Finally, a fire truck was brought in to hose down the smoldering building, and the officers removed a body found slumped over a rifle on the living-room floor. Although the Ginters had assured the police that Kahl was the only other person in the house, officials planned to examine the fugitive's dental records before ruling that it was Kahl. The state medical examiner performed an autopsy and issued a "presumptive identification" based on the fact that the body bore evidence of shrapnel wounds, which Kahl had suffered in World...