Word: waco
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...bombing related to the conflagration at David Koresh's compound in Waco, Texas, which had happened exactly two years before? Are the bombers extremists? Or are they white supremacists? These questions have occupied most of the discussion of this tragedy, but they are not really relevant...
...today by Attorney General Janet Reno to Deputy Director of the FBI, the agency's second highest position. Less than a month ago, he received a written reprimand for his mishandling of the fatal 1992 raid on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver. Potts was also in charge ofthe Waco siege...
...timing of the explosion seemed like nothing more than an eerie coincidence. But soon evidence of a connection surfaced. In an FBI affidavit taken after Timothy McVeigh's arrest, a former co-worker claimed that the bombing suspect had been unusually aggrieved by the government's conduct in Waco...
...Waco still burns feverishly for the 50 or so remaining members of the Branch Davidian sect, their relatives and their far-right supporters who feel a passionate allegiance to a group they believe was unjustly ambushed by an oppressive government. Pam Hawkins, a Branch Davidian sympathizer and founder of the Mount Carmel Independent Investigation Advocates, said that her first reaction to the news of the Oklahoma bombing was that it might have been a "planned disruption" of the Waco commemoration. "I have learned," she said grimly, "not to give the government the benefit of the doubt...
Clive Doyle is a survivor of the blaze who lost his daughter to the flames and suffered extensive burns himself. "Waco," he says, "is a wake-up call for people in the sense that they saw their government at work against citizens, perhaps for the first time." Doyle has done much to keep the memory of Waco alive. He is the informal leader of the 10 or so sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial...