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...deadly standoff that occurred between his family and the FBI at his remote Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin in 1992. The encounter, which began when federal agents came to arrest Weaver on firearms charges, resulted in the shooting death of Weaver's wife, his son and a federal marshal--and accusations that the FBI used excessive force to end the siege and then tried to cover it up. In their testimony, federal law-enforcement officials defended their initial decision to bring firearms charges against Weaver. The Justice Department is investigating the case, and five FBI officials have been suspended...
...dispute over who killed 14-year-old Samuel Weaver intensified today when Larry Cooper, a federal marshal involved in the gunfight at Ruby Ridge, testified that he thought it was Randy Weaver himself who fired the fatal shot that killed his son. TIME's Elaine Shannon believes Cooper's testimony raises important questions about Randy Weaver's possible complicity in the shootout, which also left another U.S. marshal dead. Says Shannon: "Weaver wants us to believe that he fired his gun in the air to call his son back home after the marshals began firing." Samuel Weaver was killed...
...paranoid fantasy, with the difference that it was stamped in real flesh and blood. In the 11-day standoff, Weaver's wife was shot dead as she held their 10-month-old daughter in her arms. A day earlier his 14-year-old son and a U.S. marshal had been killed...
...Randy Weaver case. In January 1991, ATF agents arrested Weaver for having sold two sawed-off shotguns to an ATF informant. Weaver was released on his own recognizance. When he failed to appear in court, a fugitive warrant was issued, and the case was passed to the U.S. Marshals Service, which caught up with Weaver in August 1992. A gunfight followed in which a deputy U.S. marshal and Weaver's 14-year-old son were killed. The FBI took over, and one of its snipers killed Weaver's wife. Contrary to public perception, however, ATF played no direct role...
Mounted on a United Nations armored combat vehicle blocking the entrance to Sarajevo's Marshal Tito Barracks, a 12.7-cal. machine gun points in the direction of Bosnian Serb forces just 220 yds. away. The gun is menacing but can almost never be used, and it serves less as a weapon than as a symbol of the paradox faced by the peacekeepers in Bosnia: they are soldiers forbidden to function as soldiers. "You are not allowed to act like a fighting force and return fire," says Guillaume Grouzelle, a French chief corporal whose job it is to guard the barracks...