Word: militia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussion with Freemen representatives before breaking off talks Tuesday. "They broke their word to us," Duke said, referring to the Freemen's arguments as "legal gobbledy-gook." Duke's rejection of the Freemen lessens the chance that their confrontation with federal agents will have the same impact on the militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched...
...turned against him; but neither had it rallied to him as he established a new reputation as a tough leader. After bashing Lebanon with artillery, missile boats, F-16 jets and helicopter gunships, Israel had not achieved even one of its military objectives. Hizballah, the Iranian-backed militia that has been fighting Israel in Lebanon since 1982, was still sending Katyusha rockets into the Galilee. And despite extensive damage to Lebanon's infrastructure and the death of some 160 civilians, support for the guerrillas was growing in Lebanon. With general elections just four weeks away, Peres' polls have slipped slightly...
...first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing drew the nation's attention again to armed militia groups. Last Friday, a week after the anniversary, the specter of militiamen poised for violence returned. Federal agents raided a suspected bombmaking site in central Georgia, arresting two members of a right-wing paramilitary group on bomb-conspiracy charges. The agents seized enough material to make 40 pipe bombs. Robert Edward Starr III, 34, an electrician, and William James McCranie Jr., 30, a plumber, were said to be stockpiling the arsenal in preparation for an upcoming "war" against the government. Starr and McCranie...
...pipe bombs. The news caused a wave of anxiety at an Olympic media summit in progress in Atlanta at the time. Federal and state officials, however, rushed to deny any link to the Games, blaming the reports on erroneous leaks. Georgia Bureau of Investigations spokesman John Bankhead clarified the militia's main enemy: "They want to protect themselves from what they see as government attacks." Officials are hoping Atlanta will not see other scares in the weeks ahead. But schedules are fraught with worrisome coincidences: preliminary proceedings in the Oklahoma bombing trial begin soon and may be in full swing...
WASHINGTON: Justice Department officials arrested two Georgia men on charges of constructing pipe bombs but denied a CBS report that the suspects were plotting to set off explosives to disrupt the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. "This is a couple of militia types who built things that can be made into pipe bombs, but we have no information of any plan to use them for the Olympics," said one law enforcement official. "The Olympics only came up once during the investigation when at one of their meetings one member said if a bomb goes off at the Olympics they would...