Word: militiaization
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...Laden remains holed up in Afghanistan under the protection of its ruling Taliban militia, which praised him Wednesday as a hero of Afghanistan's fight against the Soviet invasion and reiterated that it has no intention of handing him over for trial. And some of the Taliban's recent outrages against Buddhists - blowing up their statues, forcing them to wear yellow patches on their clothing - served as a reminder that bin Laden's hosts are singularly impervious to foreign pressure...
...sure, Israel's northern towns have been left unmolested despite the withdrawal, although Hizballah has continued to attack Israeli forces in the Shebaa Farms district, which the Lebanese militia claims as part of Lebanon but the United Nations recognizes as part of the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Hizballah also claims it is fighting on to press for the release of Lebanese and Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. But the fact that Syria is the de facto military power in Lebanon and sets the rules within which Lebanese groups operate, Hizballah's continued campaign has been widely interpreted...
...have been to convince the jury that someone else planted the bomb or that McVeigh was simply a pawn in a vast conspiracy. His lawyers claimed that Carol Howe, a onetime informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was prepared to testify that she had heard militia leaders discuss blowing up buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and that she knew several men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah Federal Building. The government claimed that despite spending eight months as a paid informant, Howe had gathered no evidence of a conspiracy in the works...
...courts, through which disaffected citizens' groups had attempted to bypass federal authority over property and tax issues. At the same time the FBI was authorized to hire 500 new agents to combat domestic terrorism, and a number of Oklahoma City copycat plans were defused. In the past two years militia leaders have been jailed for plans to bomb power lines in Florida, federal buildings in Michigan and the Army base at Fort Hood in Texas...
Butch Razey, a cherry farmer in Washington State who commands the 419th Yakima County Militia, blames the slump on a lack of "Y2Ks or anything like that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John...