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Article: Militia movement: prescription for disaster.(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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The militia movement came under intense national scrutiny after the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, when it was reported that two suspects, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, had attended militia meetings in Michigan. In addition, prosecutors charged that McVeigh was motivated out of anger at the Federal government for its handling of the Branch Davidian confrontation in Waco, Tex - an issue that has been one of the chief rallying cries of the militia movement.
There is evidence that the militia movement has continued to grow since the Oklahoma City bombing. The pattern is not uniform, but militia gains plainly appear to outweigh ...