Word: waco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing occurred on the second anniversary of the FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, leading some to conclude that supporters of David Koresh's organization might be responsible...
...attack two years ago. The explosion occurred shortly after 9 a.m. and could be felt as far as 30 miles away. Debris was spread over a wide area of downtown. The explosion came on the second anniversary of the end of thefederal siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, though it is not yet known whether that fact is relevant. The Murrah building houses the offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and there has been speculation that the bombing might be in retaliation for what happened at Waco. Other speculation pegs the bomb...
...report accuses the Chinese government of restricting religious beliefs, yet nobody has been arrested simply because he believes in a certain religion. After all, having watched the Waco fiasco that took so many innocent lives, couldn't one say that religions in America are perhaps a little too unconstrained...
Religious leader Shoko Asahara, who is being sought for questioning in connection with the subway attack, could strike one as such a figure. Of course, the Japanese are hardly the only people to produce mimics of God or apocalyptic cults. Think of Jonestown or Waco. But what is distinctive about postwar Japan is the number of people pretending to be God. The country is riddled with cults and so-called new religions...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...