terry anderson is free. he was the last of the american hostages held by pro-iranian terrorists in beirut, lebanon. in the beginning of the 90s terrorism was thought to be done. people likely to use terrorism to achieve political objectives were dead, in jail or part of the peace process. a syrian delegation is in washington today, ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. we thought the 90s would be a time of peace. not only was the cold war over, we had won. we have before us the opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. the world was changing, and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed america as the nation that would embrace globalization. but there were many people who didn t like that changing america. in maples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding a cabin, where a fugitive white supremacist named randy weaver is holed
Bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. And they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. Weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of some sawedoff shotguns to Law Enforcement. Now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the National Guard have surrounded the house. This is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in north idaho. We all have guns in our houses. We all have guns buried someplace. Northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from the problems of civilization and from civilization itself. Hes not a terrorist. Hes not endangering anybody. Everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving Christian Family man. Never before has Northern Idaho witnessed this kind of fire power from the federal government. What should have been a relatively routine arrest went very badly wro
it really was the proverbial needle in a haystack. all authorities have to go on is a composite sketch of a white male believed to be in his 40s. he wasn t the only bomber we had investigated before. but his lone solitary operation as a serial bomber was so unique. unibomb hotline? so far thousands of tips phoned into the san francisco unibomb task force have led nowhere. we began an entirely new look at this, an entirely new strategy. we brought in a crew of analysts from fbi headquarters. they worked 24/7, but sadly it happened again. [ siren ] a mail bomb explodes inside the california forestry association building. the killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspapers will publish his political theories. when we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly that we should publish this. we think someone out there will actually recognize these words.
custody. more arrests are said to be coming. the investigators found the vin number of the ryder truck, and it turned out that one of the collaborators had returned there to ask for his $400 deposit back. authorities have told abc news that the man has links to a radical muslim group. they managed to capture most of the accomplices but the mastermind, ramzi yousef, fled. ramzi yousef is smart and he is radicalized. his uncle is khalid sheikh mohammed. i have an office in that building. i will lead my people back into that office that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you were trying to achieve, you failed. for the fbi, the lesson was that these guys, while dangerous, were not at the same level as the terrorists of the late 80s. they were wanna-be s. that of course would be a complete misunderstanding.
and as you can see, it looks like at this point the entire compound is just engulfed. i have never in my life seen anything burn that way. it just went up in this massive fireball. there are no signs at this point of any people coming out of the building. the images are horrible. you had the federal government of the united states using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. it s not what we do in the united states. and yet in many ways the clinton administration felt that koresh had left them no alternative. the offender there was david koresh. and i do not think the united states government is responsible for the fact that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves. and i m sorry that they killed their children. it was proved later that the