Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapt Senate panel listened sympathetically to white separatist Randy Weaver's account of the 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...
...wept during televised hearings as he told a Senate subcommittee today how federal law enforcement officers spied on him and his family, then shot his son, his wife and a friend during an 11-day standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Republican lawmakers, in particular, have seized on the white separatist's cause now that five top FBI officials have been suspended while they are investigated on charges of a once-unthinkable coverup. "These hearings are trying to find out three things," reports senior writer Richard Lacayo. "First, what really happened on that mountain. Second, and centrally, who approved the revised...
...Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, Singh's election in 1992 was a blow to separatist Sikhs...
RANDY WEAVER 1992 shoot-out with feds nets $3.1 million payday for widowed white separatist...
...family of white separatist Randy Weaver was awarded a $3.1 million settlement by the Justice Department. Three years ago, Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son were killed by U.S. agents in a bloody standoff at his Ruby Ridge cabin in northern Idaho. Weaver-who is something of a hero to the militia movement-was accused of killing an agent in the shootout...