years, and i think we've really contributed something to the country. and maybe history will record it that way. thank you all very, very much. >> there are pim in this country who are furious at the federal government. >> they have a right to believe whatever they want. they do not have the right to kill innocent americans. >> there has been a massive explosion in oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> police are ascending upon columbine high right now. >> terrorists oft take the path of least resistance and strike when and where we least expect them to. >> what are your future plans? >> you will see them haern about them in the media. god willing. ♪ ♪ ♪

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 delegate is in washington today ready 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 tu opportunity to forth a new world order. a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. >> it was a time where they really viewed america as the place that embraced globally gags. but there were many people who didn't like that changing america.but there were many peo didn't like that changing america. >> in naples, idaho about 40 miles from the canadian border federal marshals are surrounding

a cabin where a white supremist is holding up with his family. >> he was of interest to the bureau of alcohol and tobacco and firearms because he had link tuesday the arian nations. they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement and he refused. >> he's summoned to court for a weapons charge. >> 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 idaho. we all have guns in our houses. we all have guns buried somewhere. >> northern idaho has become a home for people like weaver. >> he's not a terrorist. he's not endangering anybody. everybody that knows him personally has talked about him as a good family christian man. >> no one has witnessed it kind of firepower from the federal government. >> what should have been a relatively routine arrest went badly wrong. there was a shootout in which

weaver's 14-year-old son and a dog and a marshal all ended up dead. shot his wife dead while she was carrying her baby in her arms. >> fbi agents are trained to shoot only to defend themselves or others. the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. >> decisions were made within the fbi which allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. >> put a bullet in my head. hey, i'll make it easy. i'll turn my back on you. >> not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right. but they say none of this would have happened if federal authorities would have left him alone. >> ruby ridge was not a story that was on the front page of national newspapers. most people didn't know about it at all, but it absolutely did energize the radical right. >> randy weaver and his three children walked off the mountain

after 11 days. >> there's all this tremendous firmament that's arising precisely because of the end of the cold war. this mind-set that the united states government is the enemy breeds almost the decade of violence. >> in langley, virginia today, right outside cia headquarters a man open fired on a number of people who were in their cars. >> no one would think a situation like the shooting of cia personnel would happen on their front doorstep. the shooter escapes. >> two cia employees were shot to death in virginia. a pakistani suspect is thought to be back in pakistan. >> they figure out his name. but they don't know how to peg him. who's he working for? what organization? >> in the 1970s, we were dealing with terrorist groups. in this case there was no group that could be identified. this was the actions of one single individual. we did not realize that terrorism seemed to be moving in

a new direction. [ sirens ] >> an exosion underground has spread fire and smoke and terror throughout the gigantic world trade towers today. >> something terrible happened. >> counter terrorism sources tell cnn they now suspect the explosions caused by a car bomb. >> the bombing was designed to bring down the north tower and the north tower then falling into the south tower. >> that did not, of course, collapse the towers. but it did kill six people and injure over 1,000 more. >> i was very concerned. anything like that, any accident, tragedy, anything of moment you feel it very personally. >> the think most amazing is that more people weren't killed

especially occurring in the hours it did and the place it did. >> president clinton had just come into office. i was in new york as the ambassador of the united nations. there's no way to fully explain how all of a sudden the mood changed. >> i'll use the full resources of the federal government, every law enforcement to put to work on this, we have. i'm very concerned about it. >> federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily on the possibility of the explosion being the work of foreign terrorists. >> the 1993 world trade center bombing was a signal of how the extremists were that had been limited largely to the middle east was coming to american shores. >> six days after the bombing of the world trade center, one suspect in custody and more arrests said to be coming. >> the investigators found the vin number of the truck, and it turned out that one of the collaborators returned to ask for his $400 deposit back.

>> authorities told abc news that man was linked to a muslim group. >> they next capture most of the accomplices. but the mastermind fled. >> ramzi yousef is smart and radicalized. his uncle is khalid sheikh mohammed. a man who would later become a leader in an organization called al qaeda. >> i will lead the people back into the office. that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you were trying to achieve, you fail. >> for the fbi was it these guys while dangerous, were not at the same level as the terrorists of the late '80s. they were wannabes, that of course would be a complete misunderstanding. >> tower 2 will be open for business, two weeks ahead of schedule. that says new york's mayor a testament to a sitting fear that

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weapon, which were illegal. the atf decided it was time to go in. >> get the shot! >> get the hell off of here! >> four federal agents died in the sunday morning shootout there in texas. 16 others were wounded. >> almost 100 heavily armed cult members remain inside the sprawling compound. the cult leader, david koresh, says he will stay until it was over. >> the waco tribune began to publish a series of articles of what they call the sinful messiah who loves music and will drink beer with you and who also has sex with underage girls and has a lot of weapons. >> it is nobody's business whether we have a gun or not. guns are the right of americans to have. >> cult members continue fortifying their compound, an indication there's no plan to surrender anytime soon. >> the showdown moves into its >> this is day 20 of the

standoff. >> this is day 32. >> negotiations beeen the cult and fbi agents have stalled. >> it was all waco all the time. every new cast, every newspaper, every radio new cast is filled with this showdown. >> david koresh becomes a household name. and many people are inspired by him. he's taking to the u.s. government. he's not standing down. and people drive to waco to show their support. >> things had reached a point partly because of the publicity. >> an update on the 51-day standoff, earlier this morning armored vehicles entered the compound and began punching large holes in the walls. >> the decision was made to inject tear gas, a sort of tear gas on steroids. all of america and law enforcement on-the-scene is waiting for the people to come out. >> suddenly out of one of the second floor windows, flames burst forth.

and at this point it looks like the entire compound is engulfed. >> i'd never in my life seen anything burned 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 the korash had left them no alternative. >> the oi offender there is david koresh. >> i do not think the government of the united st is responsible that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves. and i'm sorry they killed their children. >> there were millions of americans who absolutely believed the government had

murdered those people. >> this whole situation started with violence. it was not justified or provoked from the atf there. it ended in violence that was not justified and not provoked. >> waco was proof this was an aggressive predatory federal government and now we have to fight back. like the minute men in 1776 to bear arms to defend their own rights. >> this is the michigan militia, a self-proclaimed fighting force of ordinary citizens preparing to defend themselves against the federal government. >> you will be receiving live fire over your heads this morning. >> there's also an armed militia here in indiana and at least 20 other states. >> in the '90s it really entered the mainstream. gun shows became an extremely important venue. not just for selling guns, but they're selling real life nazi literature along with survivalist handbooks and those kinds of thing.

>> so you're prepared to fight the federal government? >> yes, we're prepared to defend our home, our rights, our property, yes. >> americans are largely ignorant with what is happening in the heartland with this militia movement. >> there this extremist element of this which would not have been on anybody's radar and that'shat made them so dangerous. >> we do have a special report from nbc news. there's been a massive explosion at a federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> we have no way to tell at the moment how many casualties there are though it was an explosion felt 30 miles away. >> rescue workers desperately trying to save any lives. you can see the side of the building is all down. >> on april 19th, the building was still on fire and a whole lot of cars around the building that had also exploded. it was unbelievable. >> amid the horror of the bombing, it's the dead and wounded children that stunned and angered the nation.

>> the motive behind it is unknown at this hour. the governor says two things is known for sure. those who did this, knew what they were doing and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. >> i am pleased to announce one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday's terrible attack in oklahoma city has been arrested. timothy mcveigh age 27. >> the shock around the country was huge. this was an act of terrorism by one of our own citizens. >> a second man was charged today with blowing up the federal building. terry nichols who's been in custody since after the bombing. >> timothy mcveigh and terry nichols met in the army. mcveigh fought in the first persian gulf war. >> he left very disillusioned. the one thing that sustained him was his reading about the radical far-right. and meeting like-minded people.

>> timothy mcveigh's alleged plot to blow up the federal building took place over a secret year-long odyssey across america. >> mcveigh visited groups across the country. he went to the waco compound when it was under siege. on april 19th, two years to the date after the waco incident, oklahoma city was bombed. >> mr. president, there are tens, maybe more -- tens of thousands of men and women dressing up on weekends in military garb going off for training because they're upset about waco. despite what you say, we're talking about thousands and thousands of people in this country who are furious at the federal government. >> well, they have a right to believe whatever they want. they have a right to say whatever they want. they have a right to keep and bear arms. they have the right to put on uniforms and go out on the weekends. they do not have a right to kill innocent americans. they do not have a right to

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good evening. it is a terrifying and long running mysty. somewhere in this country tonight there's a mad bomber who has been sending deadly bombs to people for 16 years now. the fbi started investigating this bomber in 1978. >> a new jersey advertising executive opened his piece of mail this weekend and it exploded, killing him. >> it was a horrifying scene. i remember there was a cast iron skillet with nails embedded in it from the force of the blast. >> this cold-blooded murder is the latest deadly development in a series of bombings code named unibomb. >> it stands for university airline bomber. that's because six universities, one commercial airliner and one airline executive have been among the victims. >> the fbi says it cannot find a pattern and admits the long investigation has been frustrating. >> the '90s bring on a whole new challenge for law enforcement, lone-wolves.

it really was the proverbial needle in a haystack. >> all authorities have to go on is a composite sketch after white mail 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. >> so far thousands of tips phoned in 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 happens again. >> a mailbox exploded inside e forestry building. >> the killer known as the unibomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspapers will publish his political manifesto.

>> when we received the manifesto, we felt very strongly we should publish this. we think someone out there will actually recognize these words. >> the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. so begins a surprising eight-page addition to the washington post this morning. >> someone does recognize this writing and turns him into the authorities. >> the most intense manhunt in history zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. >> the big concern was are there booby traps, explosives on the property, so we had to be very careful. we were knocking on the door of the cabin. as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in. and on the morning of april 3rd, kaczynski was taken out of his cabin. >> fbi searched the home of a math instructor named theodore kazinski.

>> the on-site investigation has yielded a cache of evidence. >> we knew this long journey of 18 years was over. >> mike wallace and i together on 60 minutes interviewed the man who turned him in. >> i felt something that i dpt expect to feel at all. a deep sense of unease. fear. >> because of what you read? >> because of what i read. >> because it sounded like ted? >> because it sounded enough like him that i couldn't say -- that this is ted's writing. >> what can you do? you can't risk more lives. they couldn't. none of us could. >> apparently some lives were saved. but when the fbi arrested ted kaczynski, they said they found a live bomb wrapped under his bed ready for mailing. the only thing missing was a name and address. >> get your usa flags, everybody needs to have a flag.

>> hats, t-shirts. >> in july, 1996 when the olympics were being hosted in atlanta there was a tremendous concern about terrorist attacks. the security for the park was carefully coordinated. >> it's all taking place in the midst of security that america in an earlier generation could not have imagined. >> extra police, extra surveillance. people searching their bags. they are willing to put up with that? >> no one here is explaining about that, thaents the point. >> there was one place officials decided people should have to go and not worry about check points and that was centennial park. >> 1:25 this morning thousands of rebelers at an open-air concert in centennial park. >> all of a sudden i felt a big boom, blast, heat came and it knocked me off. >> it blew my pants off here. >> authorities said the device

appeared to be a pipe bomb with nails and screws designed to penetrate human flesh. >> more than 100 people have been injured. two are dead. >> before this device explodes, a security guard noticees a backpack, notifies a law enforcement officer and they begin to evacuate the area. if not for his quick thinking, there might have been many more injuries. >> praised by president clinton for his swift action. >> the only thing i wish we could have done is got everybody out of the area. >> fbi has a suspect. read all about it. >> almost immediately richard jewell was suspected. they thought he actually set the bomb so he could be the hero. >> did you do it? >> no, sir, i didn't do it. >> the fbi agents arrived at his apartment early this morning armed with search warrant. agent brought in a dog and evidence truck. >> in the hurly-burly of trying to understand what had happened, richard jewell became the face of the olympic park bombing

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once again a bomb blast in atlanta. an explosion about 9:30 this morning blew out windows at the north atlanta family planning clinic. >> following the olympic bombing in 1996, it's quiet for a while. in 1997 the same bomber strikes again. >> it only lasted a few seconds. >> you're basically shocked. you really didn't know what was going on at the time. >> where were you in the building, and where was the explosion. oh, my god.

>> this second explosion injured a photographer, an atf agent, and at least 14 others. >> there was a second bomb, the intention of course being to murder as many law enforcement people as possible. >> second and third bombs are classic techniques used by the irish republican army and middle east terrorists. but this is the first time it's been used as a tactic in the united states. >> another explosion. the third major bombing in this city since last summer. >> over time there's more bombings that are similar to the atlanta bombing. same material. same detonation devices. abortion clinics, lesbian nightclub. >> federal agents are asking for your help in locating this man. 31-year-old eric rudolph of north carolina. >> not much is known about rudolph. investigators describe him as a huntsman type with no fixed job or address. >> eric rudolph is described an

anti-abortion terrorist. who bombed the olympics because he wanted a stage to show his anti-abortion sentiment. eric rudolph goes on the run. >> as we started looking for him, we became more and more convinced his comfort level is in the place he was born and raised in the woods and mountains of north carolina. >> this truck was found yesterday. we believe between thursday and yesterday this truck was being driven by eric rudolph. >> i remember during the hunt one of the military advisors says you could hide a whole regiment in the mountains and we would never find him. >> agents are now systematically picking their way through. >> american law enforcement discovers that you can be on the fbi's most wanted list and actually hide in this country. this guy disappears for five years. >> do you think that he's getting a big kick out of out

smarting the feds? >> well, sure. i think he is. i think it's part of his hide-and-seek game. >> and he thinks he's winning. >> he is winning. >> in the end he got caught in this pathetic moment where he's rummaging around in a dumpster looking for something to eat and this rookie cop arrests him. >> there was this sort of unbelievable quality to all of this. eric rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment. it's like a worm that was eating away inside of us. >> welcome back, everybody. we want to bring you up-to-date of a breaking story out of denver. apparently there's been a school shooting at a high school in the town of littleton. >> the '90s bring us the first mass school shootings. there's something disturbing about premeditated murder by young people. >> police and law enforcement are descending upon the school

columbine high, right now. >> they believe at least two people inside with automatic weapons and pipe bombs. again, unconfirmed by police. >> it hit tv very quickly. i happened to see this on television and got in my car. i saw a rung of choppers. like vultures circling. i knew instantly this was so much worse than i'd imagined. >> mass gunmen in trench coats start shooting into the cafeteria. kids scatter. students are hit. >> they're just like spraying across -- >> they just start shooting. anybody walking, talking, whatever, boom you were shot. they didn't care. >> there's blood on you. >> everybody around me got shot. and i begged them for 10 minutes not to shoot me. >> it was horrific, beyond unthinkable. and yet we were watching it as it happen. >> you can see in the upper part of your screen, a student, a

badly bloody student hanging out a window. >> hanging out the second floor saying, i'm bleeding to death. >> the emotion was incredible. it's hard for a parent to see the parents who came. >> they went through the school shooting classmates, shooting teachers. 13 people died and 28 were injured. the police had arrived. they didn't want to be arrested. so they took their own lives. >> tomorrow morning denver post identifies the suspects as 18-year-old harris and 17-year-old dylan klebold. >> local authorities searched the homes of the two boys and say they found the makings of a pipe bomb and other explosive devices.

>> the search for a motivation, the calls for tighter gun control, the counseling sessions at school, and the endless, endless grief. >> there'd been school shootings before, but none quite like this. it put the school shooting in a whole new and darker category. it also raised a flood of questions of well, what is happening to our youth? >> i believe some of these kids are drifting deeper and deeper and deeper into rock music, violence and that subculture. >> the biggest question is why did they do it. they were completely different people, opposite personalities and opposite motives. dylan was suicidally depressed. he really wanted to die. eric harris was the ringleader. he wanted to show how powerful he was. >> on his internet page harris wrote pipe bombs are some of the easiest and deadliest ways to kill a group of people. >> columbine wasn't intended as a school shooting. it was primarily intended as a bombing. >> they were inspired by the oklahoma city bombing.

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the white house has now confirmed that ramzi ahmed yousef has been arrested in pakistan. >> in about 11 hours, the jury sentenced mcveigh to death by lethal injection. >> man wanted outside the cia headquarters has been turned over to the u.s. >> the unibomber now knows his sentence, and how's life in prison. >> over the course of the 1990s, a lot of terrorism threats were dealt with as law enforcement cases. the department of justice and the fbi would find their guy and they would prosecute him. it isn't that that wasn't essential, that strategy. it's just we weren't perceiving the threat as something bigger. >> this is the new face of

terror, osama bin laden. the 39-year-old renegade son of a saudi billionaire. islamic fundamentalist. elusive, mysterious. >> bin laden's economic training was in public administration. so he brought the sensibilities of a businessman to terrorism when he creates al-qaeda. >> call it terror inc. private jets. swiss bank accounts. he gives orders via internet. >> when it comes to issues like motive, money, network he's one of the few in the world that has all the various components. >> bin laden who'd been a de facto, turned on the united states. >> he was angry at the lingering american presence in saudi arabia. and the war was over. it was seen as this great insult to have non-muslims in the country defending it. >> i first heard the name osama bin laden in "the new york times."

i went to my bosses at krp saying let's try and meet this guy and find out what his deal is. >> amidst these remote mountains of afghanistan are the various hiding places of one of the world's most wanted men, osama bin laden. >> the correspondent and peter and the cameraman, myself, we traveled with bin laden's associates into the mountain. >> a year ago they took refuge here in afghanistan. afghanistan is probably the only country in the world that will accept him. >> for his first television interview, he figured he'd have a world audience. >> you are declared a jihad against the united states. can you tell us why? >> the arrogance of the united states regime has reached the point they occupy arabia, the holiest place of muslims who are a billion people in the world today. >> what are your future plans? >> translator: you'll see them and hear about them in the media

god willing. >> on the eighth anniversary of the u.s. deployment in saudi arabia, osama bin laden's forces bomb two american embassies in africa. >> it was mid-morning in nairobi when a powerful bomb exploded outside the embassy. the building behind the embassy crumbled in concrete and steel, turning the sidewalk red with blood. a passing bus, windows blown out, people on board incinerated. >> almost simultaneously 415 mile away, another deadly blast. the target a u.s. embassy in dar es tanzania. >> simultaneous attacks become a hallmark of al qaeda demonstrating its power. >> the death toll stands at 210.

5,000 people were injured. >> this attack was very sophisticated, very coordinated. this was an enemy we were not prepared for. >> oversees today, secretary of state madeleine albright went to africa. >> and went to kenya and tanzania to see what happened. basically to collect the facts. we began to be able to trace that to osama bin laden. >> we will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for. >> bin laden's group is suddenly a real player. and the clinton administration decides to do something about him. >> american military struck a series of targets overseas in sudan and afghanistan. >> the unmanned tomahawk missile was the pentagon's weapon of choice for surprise aerial attacks aimed at sending a pointed message to accused terrorist kingpin, osama bin laden. >> america has battled terrorism for many years. we have quietly disrupted

terrorist groups and foiled their plots, but there will be times when our very national security is challenged. and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of of our citizens. >> within minutes of today's attacks np afghanistan and sudan, some in washington were questioning the time of it. >> it was the wag the dog tail in a movie about where the president strikes the war. >> there are quite a few people who believe that clinton is trying to distract americans with a shiny object from what really matters, which has his impeachment trouble for the remainder of his time in office. he wouldn't authorize attacks unless the information was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. >> we came within yards literally of taking out ostamina

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what's the fear of bin laden today? >> if in fact he is trying to mown another attack and all the intelligen intelligence members have said -- >> by the end of the decade american and foreign intelligence agencies were very much on guard. the chatter was that the turn of a industry, in this case a millennium, this will be a great opportunity to be memorable. >> there's not a man in custody, a man who came across the canadian border headed for

seattle with a truck load of explosives and times devices. >> authorities say the suspect arrived at port angeles. but he's nervous acting suspiciously. >> it was a border card in washington state. she stopped the man who was the driver and asked if she could look into his trunk. >> authorities fear he was part of a plot to launch a new year's eve attack and he was not acting alone. there may be a connection tobin la den. as one u.s. official worries tonight, there's still a lot we don't know. >> in some respects it was a new type of terrorist -- was given $12,000 in seed money. he's told to raise the rest of your funds, recruit your own cell and bomb whatever you want. >> two quarter jars of nitro

glis rent were found in the trunk. >> the notifiexplosives were th used in the new york building towers. >> even though authorities appeared to have gotten their man, the threat might not yet be over. >> we ended the decade with a clear perception now that we were engaged with a terrorist organization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out more attacks. >> his interest is in achieving the large body count, that is the reality of today easter richl. >> fier >> fears of sabotage -- >> abc news results today from a poll asked how concerned borrow you about the able of a dresfle attack.

73% said they weren't worried. >> we shouldn't lose village lance after january 1, we need to sustain these efforts because the terrorist often take it is paths in least resistance and striking where we least want them to. >> terrorist have to be lucky only once. >> if you look back at the '90s there was a lot of violence going on in the united states on american soil. >> seeing the 1990s and looking at major pivot points, columbine, the shooting in schools, in colorado, the bombing in oklahoma city, the devideo yan compound in waco, something deep within the country, something dark was moving in the society. >> as the year 2000 approaches, group attract the nations sujey tread of the government and fear of marshal law are growing.

>> it's hard to think of any decade that comes close to 1990s in terms of the number and enormity of attacks directed and designed to get back at the u.s. government. >> these very powerful subterranean forces were marshaling their strength to pledge us into a new era of violence into the new millennium. >> it had bad enough where this happens somewhere else but now that america has box a global village there is nowhere else. look out america, terrorism's come home. >> i think we are in for a long time. you know, things like this, this is the new -- the war, the battles of the end of this century and the beginning of the next one. this country, when we put our mind to us whether it was the first world war, second world war or the cold war, we have an enemy, and the enemy are the terrorists who do not believe in

what we do, open societies and freedom and who are out to kill innocent people. we have to understand that this is a sustained effort. is there a difference between parody and satire, obviously parody, man, i don't know. >> jerry my brother and jim a brams always have an answer for that. >> i don't know, i think -- >> i don't know. look its ultimate in the dictionary. >> parody is essentially a take off. >>