Word: militia
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...expertise and power to pull off such a precision bombing? Who has the resources and power to cover it up, and who, in fact, is covering it up? We all know the answers to that and it has nothing to do with the militia. This is the Reichstag all over again...
...think the federal government has become so large and powerful that itposes a threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens, but only 27 percent believe that citizens have the right to arm themselves and organize to oppose the government, according to a TIME/CNN poll released today. Aboutcitizen militia groupsthemselves, 80 percent of Americans see them as "dangerous," 63 percent as "a threat to our way of life" and 55 percent say they are "crazy." At the same time, about a quarter of those polled appear to hold views that are at least somewhat in line with these groups...
...Oklahoma City, court-appointed attorneys for McVeigh filed papers asking to withdraw from the case. (One of them, John Coyle, said his family had received threats and belatedly offered that he had friends hurt in the blast.) The Pentagon, meanwhile, reported that McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols -- a"Militia of Michigan"member now being held as a material witness -- entered the Army on the same day in 1988 and went on to serve in the same infantry unit at Fort Riley, Kan. At the Alfred P. Murrah Building,80 people were confirmed dead today, 13 of them children...
Meanwhile, the FBI is seeking two suspects in Michigan, brothers Terry Lynn Nichols and James Douglas Nichols. CNN reported they and McVeigh are thought to be members of the Michigan Militia, a paramilitary group that held meetings in Junction City, Kan., the town where the truck used in the bombing was rented. The FBI reportedly raided the town of Decker, Michigan in connection with the bombing this afternoon...
...Ngozi, where armed men killed 12 Rwandan Hutu and wounded 22 last Monday. That attack, presumably carried out by Tutsi militiamen, followed a week of ethnic cleansing in the capital, Bujumbura: bands of Tutsi swept through mixed neighborhoods, driving out members of the other tribal group, fighting with Hutu militia, shooting stragglers, burning houses and shops. Families were shot in the street and left to die; mothers came home to murdered children...