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...from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and then for running a media-relations operation full of premature statements, retractions and conflicting information that, fairly or not, has made the many-headed investigation look about as organized as the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." But what about the SWAT team on the scene? Were they bold enough? Fast enough? Ten days into the aftermath, parents, politicians and the police themselves are all asking the same question: Could the fatality list have been shorter...
...Sanders pictures of his family as he lay dying wanted to carry the teacher out on a makeshift stretcher; police said no, and by the time paramedics reached him hours later, Sanders was beyond help. Criticism has centered on the first half hour of the rampage, and whether the SWAT team did enough to stop the carnage and contain the teenage killers. Doubters have included a fellow Colorado police officer, Randy Patrick, who three days after the shootings called the SWAT response "pathetic...
...officers at ground zero say hindsight doesn't do them justice. "People who weren't there don't understand," Deputy Paul Smoker, the second officer on the scene, told the Denver Rocky Mountain News. "It was unbelievable craziness." Part of the problem may be that the SWAT team was facing the emerging new paradigm of American crime: the school massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren't bank robbers or hostage-takers; they wanted nothing except to kill, often and quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could...
...NATO's 50th anniversary, bomb squads, SWAT teams, police units and personnel are shutting down more than two dozen blocks of Washington D.C. in 1,440 minutes...
...been here before, and it's never pretty. The pictures on TV -- SWAT teams running into the schools, hysterical students running out -- have been repeated six times in the past 18 months. And now a seventh, the bloodiest of all: Littleton, Colo., just southwest of Denver, where three young men dressed in fatigues stormed into Columbine High School. As many as 25 students may now be dead, as well as two of the suspects, and at least 18 people are injured. A number of students were held in the building for hours. Some used their cell phones to tell their...