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Article: Militias: initiating contact.
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
- Author:
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The growth of the organized militia movement represents one of the most significant social trends of the 1990s. This significance is due less to the actual size of the movement - by all measures, militia membership remains an almost imperceptible percentage of the population - than it is to the potential for death and destruction emanating from the most radical elements of the movement.
Few Americans knew of the militia movement or antigovernment extremists until the morning of April 19, 1995, when a bomb blast destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Although no apparent direct connection exists between members of any militia group ...