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president and give him every chance to lead this country into greater heights. i am very grateful to all of you, it's been a wonderful four years and i think we've really contributed something to the country and maybe history will record it that way. thank you all very much very much. >> there are people in this country who are furious at the federal government. >> we have a right to believe what ever they want. they do not have a right to kill innocent americans. >> there have been a mass of explosion in oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> police are descended position height right now. >> the terrorist take the least resistance and strike when we less expect them to. you'll hear and see them about them media.
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hostages healed by pro iran yan terrorist in lebanon. >> in the beginning of the '90s, terrorists was thought to be done. people who likely use terrorism to achieve elective effective was in jail, dead. >> ready to meet with israel to talk about middle east peace. >> we thought the '90s would be an era of peace. >> we have an opportunity to forge a new world order, a world where the rule of law govern the conduct of nations. >> the world was changing and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed measuring as the nation that would immigration globalization. but there were many people that didn't like that changing america. >> in ohio, 40 miles from the canadian border, federal marshals are surrounding a camp.
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>> randy weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains with his family in ohio. he was of interest to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had lengths to the ariana nations. they tried to impress him to reform on his nation and he refused. >> weaver is reformed to court for a weapons charge that involved the sell of shotguns to law enforcement. >> the police and national guard has surrounded the house. >> this is nothing but a show of force to scare everybody who live up here in idaho. we all have guns in our houses. >> northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like weave who wants to be from civilization himself. >> he's not a terrorist. >> never before as north idaho witnessed this sort of fire
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power from the federal government. >> what should have been a relative arrest went wrong. there's a shoot out where weaver's 14-year-old son sammy, a dog and a marshal ended up dead. a shooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying a baby in her arms. >> the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. >> decisions were made within the fbi which allowed it had sniebers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. >> put a bullet many any head. hell, make it easier i'll turn my become on you. >> not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is if the right, but they say none of this would have happened if federal government would have left him alone. >> ruby ridge was not a story on the front page of the national newspapers. most people didn't know about it
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at all. >> the siege ended at 12:15 when randy weaver and his three children walked off the mountain after 11 day. >> this mind set that the united states government is the enemy breeds almost the decade of violence. >> in langley, virginia today right outside cia headquarter as young man with a rifle opened fire on a if you remember people who were in their cars. >> no one would think that a situation like a shooting of a cia personnel would happen. >> two cia employees were shot to death in virginia. a pakistan at least suspect is parted to be back in pakistan. >> they figure out his name, me mir. >> in the 1970s we were dealing
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with a terrorist group. there was no group that could have been identified this was one single vj. we did not realize that terrorism seem to be moving in a different direction. >> announcer: stories explosion underground has spread fire and smoke throughout the world trade toure towers today. >> cnn told they now suspect 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 killed six people and injured over a thousand more. >> i was consider concerned.
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anything like that, a tragic a moment you feel it very personally. >> it's amazing more people weren't killed especially having occurred at the hour and place that it did. >> the president had just come into office. i was in new york as ambassador of the united nations. there's no way to fully explain how all of a sudden the mood changed. >> full resources of the federal government, every skeevl law enforcement integration, the source will be put to work on this we have. i'm very concerned about it. >> federal officials beginning to focus heavily on the possibility of the explosion about work of foreign terrorist. >> the 1993 world trade center bombing was a signal of how the extremist were that had been limited largely to the middle east was finally coming to american shores. >> tonight after the bombing of the world trade center, one suspect in custody more saiding
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to coming. >> the inveterans administratst vin number of one of the trucks. >> authorities told cnn news that -- >> ronald youssouf is smart and radicalized. his uncle is a man who would later become a leader in al qaeda. >> i have an office in that brilding. i will lead my people back into their office. whatever you tried to achieve you failed. >> the fbi, the lesson of these guys while dangerous was not at the same level. that of course would be a completely disunderstanding. >> in the first time since the bombing, tower two will be opened for business, two weeks ahead of schedule.
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compound. they have been buying semi automatic weapons. >> four federal agents died in the shoot out there in texas. 16 overs wounded. >> almost heavily armed acult members in this compound. qureshi says this will continue to god told him to come out. >> >> qureshi proclaimed himself to be a prophet. and who has a lot of weapons. >> he makes nobody's business where we have guns or not. gu guns are rights of more than to have.
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>> there's no plan to surrender any time soon. >> this was day 32, negotiations between the cult and the fbi agents have stalled. >> it's all waco all the time. every newscast, every newspaper, every radio newscast is filled with this show down. >> david qureshi becomes a household name. he's taking it to the government and not stand down and people drive to waco to show this support. >> things have reached a point because of the pub publicity that something had to be done right away. >> in the stand off, vehicles entered questireshi's compounds began punching large holes in the walls. >> the decision was made to eject tear gas. all america with all of law enforcement on the scene is waiting for people to come out.
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>> suddenly out of one of the second floor windows flames butter forth and as you can see it looks like the entire compound is just engulfed. >> i've never in my life seen anything burn that way, it just went up in this massive fire ball. >> there are no signs at this point of any people coming out of the building. >> the images are horrible. you have the federal government of the united states using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. that's not what we do in the united states, and yet in many ways the clinton administration felt qureshi left them no alternative. >> the offender there was david k qureshi, and i do not think the united states government is responsible for the fact that f fan nattic decided to kill
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themselves. >> there were literally millions of americans who absolutely believed that the government had murdered those people. >> this whole situation towarded with violence, it's not justifiable on both. it ended in violence, it was not justified and pro voeked. >> waco was proved positive to many of these people this was an aggressive government and now we have to fight back like the machine man in 1776 to bare arms to defend their own rights. this >> this is michigan malitia of people preparing to defend themselves from the federal government. there's also an armed malitia here in indiana and plenty other states. >> in the president 90s it entered the pain streams. gun show became an extremely important venue, not for selling
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guns but real live nazi literature. >> so you're prepared for a conflict with the united states? >> yes, we are prepared to defend or homes, children, lives and property, yes. >> americans are ignorant with what's happening in the heart land with regard to this malitia movement and there's an extreme -- that would not have been on everybody's radar and that's what that he had them dangerous. >> there have been a massive explosion from a building if oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> there was an explosion felt 30 miles away. >> rescue workers trying to save any remaining lives. the side of the building is all down. >> on april 19th, when you got to oklahoma city that building was still on fire and there were a lot of cars around the building that had exploded. it was unbelievable. >> amid the horror of the
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bombing it's the dead and wounded children that have stunned and angered the nation. >> the motivate behind the madness is unknown at the hour. the governor of oklahoma says two things are 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. >> shock around the country, it 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 have been in custody since after the bombing. >> timothy mcveigh and terry nichols met in the army. mcveigh fought in the first persian gulf war.
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>> the one thing that sustained him about his reading borrow the far right and meeting like minded people. >> mcveigh's plan to blow up the -- >> mcveigh vised malitia groups through the the country. he wen to the waco compound when it was under siege. on april 19, two years to the date of 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 guard going off for training because they're up set 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 bare arms, they have a right to put on uniforms and go out on the weekends, they do not
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good evening it is a terrifying and long running mystery, somewhere in this country there is a mad bomber sending bombs to people. the investigators starting investigating this bomber in 1978. >> a new jersey man opened a piece of mail in the weekend and it exploded. >> it was a horrifying scene. >> this cold-blooded murder is the latest deadly development in a series of bombings, code named unabomb. >> unabomb stand for university airline bombers. that's because six urines, one commercial airliner and one airliner executive has been among the victims. >> the '90s bring on a new
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challenge for law enforcement, lone wolves. it really was the proverbial needle in a hay stack. >> all authorities have to go on is a composite sketch of a white male believed to be in his 40s. >> we wasn't the only bomber we had investigated but his long solitary operation of a serial bomber was so unique. >> so far thousands of tips phoned into the san francisco unabomb task force led nowhere. >> we began an entirely new look at this. we brought in a crew of analyst from fbi quarters, they worked 24/7, sadly it happened again. >> the killer known as the unabomber says he will stop mailing package bombs if the newspaper would publish his political theories. >> when we received that we felt
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stronger we should publish this. we think someone out there would recognize these words. >> the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. >> someone does recognize these crazed writings and turns him into the authorities. >> the longest and most intense manhunt in u.s. history has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside lincoln, montana. >> the big concern was are their traps, explosives on the property, so we had to be very careful. we were knocking on the door of the cab in. he started to close the door and say let me get my coat and come out and as he did that one of the agents took the door in and on the morning of april 3rd he was taken out of his cabin. >> fbi agents today search the home of a 53-year-old former math mathic teachers anytimed
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theodore. >> it was the most incredible moment. we knew this long journey of 18 years was over. >> mike wallace and i together on 60 minutes interviewed his family who had turned him in. >> i was feeling something i didn't expect to feel at all which was a deep sense of unease, fear -- >> because of what you read. >> because of what i read. because it sounded enough like him that i could not say to myself or linda that this is not ted's writing. >> what can you do? you can't risk more lives. dave couldn't, none of us could. >> apparently some lives were saved. from when the fbi arrested ted, they say 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.
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>> three for one. >> flags, t-shirts. >> in july of 1996 when the olympics were being hosted in atlanta, there was a concern about terrorist attacks. the security for the park was very carefully coordinated. >> it's all taking place where the early americans could not imagine. >> the extra police and extra surveillance. >> nobody here is complaining about that. >> there was one place officials decided people should be able to go and not have to worry about check points and that was centennial olympic park. >> 1:25 this morning thousands of rebels at an open rock concert at scentennial park. >> all of a sudden i felt a big boom, a blast, heat came and flocked me off the wall. blew my pants off.
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>> authorities said the device appeared to be a pipe bomb loaded with nails and screws designed to pen strait human flesh. >> more than 100 people injured, two are dead. >> before there device explodes, security richard jewels noticed his backpack, aall right officers and they began to evacuate the area. if not for his quick thinking there probably would have been many for casualties. >> jewel was raised after the accident. >> the only thing i wish we could have done was gotten everybody out of the area. >> almost immediately, richard jewel 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 jewel's argument armed with a search warrant. agents brought a dog and an evidence truck. >> in trying to understand what
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had happened, richard jewel became the face of the olympic park bombing until it was made clear that he wasn't. by then a lot of damage had been done. >> despite their interest they have not found any evidence linking him to the crime scene. in their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, the fbi and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. >> jewel was fed to the world's media wolves and the wolves fed on him for days. it was as if he was offered up to us in the hopes that the blood we draw would somehow help solve the crime. >> if richard jewel is no longer a suspect who planted the pipe bomb. to be continued. (vo) it would be great if human beings were great at being human. and if all of mankind were made up of kind women and kind men. it would be wonderful if common knowledge
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others. >> when the police and emt's arrived there was a second bomb with the intention of course to be 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 terrorist. 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 bombing that are similar to atlanta bombing. same materials, same detonation tactics, abortion clinics and gay night club. >> authorities asked for help locating this man, eric r. rudolph. investigators describe him as an outdoor type. >> he's identified as an anti-abortion terrorist who bombed the olympics because he wanted a stage to show his
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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 of north carolina. >> this truck was found yesterday. we believe that between thursday and yesterday this truck was being driven by eric robert rudolph. >> i remember during the hunt. one of the military advisors says you can hide anyone in this mountain and we wouldn't find it. >> agents reported spiders the size of a hand and rattlesnake as bad as a man's arm. >> you're going to be on the fbi's wanted list and actually hide in this country. this guy disappears for five years. >> do you think he's getting a big kick out of outsmarting the feds? >> sure.
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i think he is. it's part of his hide and seek game. >> and he thinks he's winning. >> he is winning. >> in the end he got caught where he's rummaging around in the dumpster looking for something eat and some local rookie cop arrested him. >> it was some kind of unbelievable quality to all of this. eric rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment, it was like a worm that was eating away inside of us. >> welcome back everybody we want to bring you up to date on a breaking story out of suburban denver. 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 especially disturbing about premeditated murder by young people. >> they do believe two people are inside with multiple
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automatic weapons. >> it hit local t.v. very quickly. >> i happened to see this on television and got in my car. i saw a ring of choppers like multi circling. this was so much worst. >> mass gunman start shooting into school cafeterias. kids shouting and student are hit. >> they started shooting, everybody who was walking and talking didn't matter they didn't care. >> everyone around me got shot. i begged him for ten minutes not to shoot me. >> it was horrific, it was beyond unthinkable and we were watching it as it happened. >> you can see in the part of your screen a badly bloody student hanging out a window.
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>> the emotions were incredible. it's hard for a pattern to see the parents -- >> they went through the school shooting classmates, shooting teachers, 13 people died, 21 injured. the police arrived, they didn't want to be arrested so they took their own lives. >> tomorrow morning denver post identified the two suspects that say 18-year-old derrin and 18-year-old dylan died of gunshot wounds. >> when the police searched the homes of two boys they found makings of bombs and explosive devices. >> a search for motivation, calls for tighter gun controls, the counseling sessions at school and the endless endless grieve. >> there have been school shootings before but not quite
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like this. this puts the shooting in a new darker category. it raised a flood of questions of 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 do they do it. dylan was suicidely depressed. he really wanted to die. eric harris was the ring leader. he wanted to show how powerful he was. >> on his internet page, eric wrote pipe bombs was the easiest way to kill people. >> they were inspired by the oklahoma city bombing. they hope they'd kill a lot of 5 million people. in the end their homemade bombs did not detonate.
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>> school bells have an ominus range. >> what this did in the ark of terrorism was open a terrible pandora's box because terrorism was also used for political as. and what eric and dylan decide i why don't we do this terrorist stuff for our own grant diazment and they did. that created a template of these spe spectacle murders. >> we give them the platform to do this. we prooifrded coverage, we make them the stars. ...where each drop was formulated to be smarter.... ...even smarter than that...
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the white house has now confirmed that youssouf, the alleged master mind of bombing of the trade center has been arrested in pakistan. >> about -- sentenced mcveigh to death by legal injection. >> the fbi says the man wanted in the fatal shooting has been turned over to the fbi. >> over the course of the 1990s a lot of terrorism threats were
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dealt with as law enforcement cases. the department of justice and the fbi would find their guy and prosecute him. >> it isn't that that wasn't essential that strategy. it meant we weren't perceiving the threat of something bigger. this is the new face of terror. oh stamina bin laden. >> his training was in economics and public administration. he brought the sensibility of a businessman to terrorism. >> call it terror inc.. a private jet swiss bank account. >> when it comes to issues like money, motivate, network, he's one of the few in the world who has all the various components. >> bin laden who been a defect or also lie of the united states turned on the united states. >> he was angry at the lingering american presence in saudi
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arabia. and the war we thought was over and it seemed as a great insult to have non-muslims in the country defending it. >> i've heard stories of bin laden in the story of "new york times." i wen to my bosses in cnn and said let's try to meet this guy and fine out what his deal is. >> these areas of afghanistan are the hiding place of the world's most wanted men. bin laden. >> my camera men and myself traveled with bin laden into -- >> a year ago bin laden took refuge here in afghanistan. it is the only country in the world that will accept him. >> for his first television interview he figured he'd have a world audience. >> mr. bin laden you've declared a gee yaud against the united states. can you tell us why? >> the arrogance of united
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states regime reached a point where they reached arabia. >> 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, bin laden bombed two agencies in north america. >> the building behind the embassy crumbled into a tangle of concrete and steel, turning the sidewalk red with blood. people on board incinerated. >> almost 450 miles away,
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another deadly blast. >> simultaneous attacks become the hallmark of al qaeda demonstrating its power. >> the death toll stands at 210, 5,000 people injured. >> this attack is sophisticated and coordinated. this was an enemy we were not prepared for. >> i went to kenya, i also wen to tanzania to see what had happening, basically still trying to collect the facts. we began to be able to trace that tobin la den. >> we will not be intimidated or pushed off the world's stage by people who do not like what we stand for. >> bin laden's group is suddenly a real player and the clinton administration decide to do something about it. >> military forces strike overseas in sudan and
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afghanistan. >> the tomahawk missile was the weapon of choice aimed to sent a message to accuse terrorist kingpin, bin laden. >> america has dismantled terrorists for many years. there have been and will be times when our very national security is challenged. and and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. >> within minutes of today's attacks in afghanistan and sudan, some in washington were openly questioning the timing of it. >> it was the wag the dog question about the movie where a president fakes a war to distract the country from news of his sexual dalliances. >> there are a quite a few people who believe that clinton is trying to distract americans with a shiny object from what really matters which is his impeachment trouble for the remainder of his time in office. he wouldn't authorize attacks unless the information was
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absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. >> we came within yards literally of taking out osama bin laden himself. >> and he got away, obviously. >> well, by you know, happenstance, luck. >> bin laden at war with the united states every second of every day. according to counterterrorism officials who tell nbc news his terror network now operates in 50 countries, training camps in 20. >> we had entered a different era. you have an enemy that is completely amorphous. they can be in yemen, they can be in saudi arabia, they can be in paris and london. they can be everywhere. (vo) it would be great if human beings were great at being human. and if all of mankind were made up of kind women and kind men. it would be wonderful if common knowledge was knowledge commonly known. and if the light from being enlightened
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what's the fear of bin laden today? >> if in fact he is trying to mount another attack and all the intelligence senior analysts have said publicly before congress and on television that they believe he is, then you end up moving towards american symbols, corporate symbols, or tourism. or america stateside. >> by the end of the decade, the american and other foreign intelligence agencies were very much on guard. the chatter on intercepts was that the turn of a century or in this case a millennium, this would be a great opportunity to
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be memorable. >> there's not a man in custody, a man who came across the canadian border headed for seattle with a trunk load of explosives and timing devices. >> authorities say the suspect arrives aboard a car ferry, but he's nervous, acting suspiciously. >> it was a border guarded 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 that he was not acting alone. there may be a connection to saudi born terrorist osama bin laden. >> but as one u.s. official worries tonight, there's still a lot we don't know the. >> he was a new kind of terrorist. in the past, al qaeda operatives have been given very specific orders and direct targeting instructions. ahmed ressam is 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 nitroglycerin and chemical jars
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filled with urea were found in the trunk. >> the ingredients were the same as the ingredients used in the bottoming of new york. >> he gets stopped. >> even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet can 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 a large body count. that is the reality of today's terrorism. >> fierce of sabotage have also prompted tighter security at airports, border crossings, utilities and tunnels in many states. >> abc news released results today from a poll that asked how concerned are you about the possibility of a domestic attack. 73% said they weren't worried. >> the challenge is sustaining
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counter-terrorism as a policy priority. we shouldn't lose vigilance after january 1. we need to sustain these efforts because the terrorists often takes the path of least resistance and strikes when and where we least expect them to. >> the government and security people all over the country have to be lucky pre day. terrorists have to be lucky only once. >> if you look back at the '90s in their totality, 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 davidian compound in waco were indicative of something deep within the country. something dark was moving in this society. >> as the year 2000 approaches, groups that track the nation's militias say hatred of the government and fear of martial
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law are growing. >> it's hard to think of any decade that cops close to the 1990s in terms of the number and the enormity of attacks directed and designed to get back at the u.s. government. >> these very powerful subterranean forces were marshalling their strength to really plunge us into a new era of violence in the new little millennium. >> it was bad enough when all this horror happened somewhere else, but now that the world has become a global village, there is not somewhere else anymore. look out, america. terrorism has come home. >> i think we are in for a long time. you know -- >> of things like this? >> of things like this. this is the new -- the war, the battles of the end of this century and the beginning of the next one. and this country, when we put our mind to it, whether it was the first world war or the second world war or the cold war, we have an enemy. and the enemy are the terrorists
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who do not believe in what we do, open societies and freedom. who are out to kill plain, innocent people and we have to understand this is a sustained effort. south korea stages a live fire drill to send its own message to north korea after kim jong-un detonates it to date. >> washington issues a stern warning to pyongyang. promising a massive military response to any threat against the u.s. or its allies. warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. we are live in atlanta. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm cyril
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