Word: snipering
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...Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who shot and killed Randy Weaver's wife during a1992 Ruby Ridge shootout, took the Fifth Amendment today behind closed doors at the Senate. "There will be a lot more Fifth Amendment-taking to come," reports Elaine Shannon at the hearings. "Very soon, we will see a parade of some of the most respected FBI officials in the country doing the exactly same thing." Five FBI officials, including former deputy director Larry Potts, are under suspension amid federal criminal investigations concerning Ruby Ridge. Horiuchi, the sharpshooter, is facing potential criminal charges in Idaho...
...Calabresi in Zagreb and reporter Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo. Calabresi, our chief Central European correspondent, just took over the post from James L. Graff, who has moved to the Chicago bureau after three years of dangerous assignments in Bosnia. At times during his tour of duty, Graff drove through sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure the risks you're undertaking are commensurate with the story you're getting. It's not a straightforward equation...
Minutes later, gunfire erupted. Officers would later deny that they had fired on students. Others would say they had seen a sniper in the dormitory. But in the end, there would be no universally accepted reasons for the deaths of Phillip L. Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of 12 other students...
During the shoot-out at the family's cabin on Ruby Ridge in Idaho, Weaver's wife was killed by a federal sniper's bullet as she stood in a doorway holding her baby daughter. Weaver was accused of murder in the death of a federal agent in the shoot-out but was convicted of only two counts related to his failure to appear in court on an earlier weapons charge, for which he served a 16-month sentence...
...would a person do it publicly, when maybe he could have done it clandestinely, with a high-powered rifle ...'' Nine days later, Dr. Gary Romalis was gravely wounded as he sat at his breakfast table in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rifle bullet had come through the window; the sniper was never caught. The question now is whether this attack-rather than Salvi's alleged rampage seven weeks later-represents the cutting edge of antiabortion extremism, and whether the reign of terror can be stopped before more people are injured or killed...