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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: FBI Raids Boston | 9/13/2001 | See Source »

...chilling testimony. One minute, Saraswathy Govindasamy was chatting outside her front door with her eight-month pregnant niece and neighbor, Selvamalar Nadarajah. The next, her niece and four others had been shot dead by a police SWAT team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Policing the Police | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Columbine | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...then Brother Wade and Sister Gina watched the TV show America's Most Wanted and realized who the band of traveling Christians really were. Brother Wade alerted the police, and a SWAT team descended. Three of the escapees were captured at a nearby convenience store. Another surrendered peacefully at the RV. Two were captured two days later at a Holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Then There Were Six | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

Elvis is not leaving the building. Neither is Mrs. Elvis. Bob Dole was onto something when he once joked that it would take a SWAT team to get the Clintons out of the White House. After secretly checking out houses as storied as the Auchincloss mansion in Georgetown, the couple agreed last Friday to buy a six-bedroom, seven-bath, $2.8 million colonial on a third of an acre in an exclusive neighborhood. Secluded and quietly elegant, it has a spectacular garden in back, with a pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Well Is Her Best Revenge | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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