Word: skamania
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With the arrests, Ashcroft proclaimed that the government has "neutralized a suspected terrorist cell." It remains to be seen whether that is true or whether local vigilance has gone overboard. Just a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks last year, a deputy sheriff in Skamania County, Wash., responded to a complaint about gunshots at a rural gravel pit. Six men in Muslim caps were testing out an arsenal of weaponry, including an assault rifle and semiautomatic pistols. The deputy took their names. A month later, when one was arrested for carrying illegal weapons, the officer recognized him and called...
Behavior that once might have been called paranoid was praised by authorities. Says Skamania County sheriff Chuck Bryan: "We live in a much different country now." --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Polly Forster and Nathan Thornburgh/Portland
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