is holed up with his family. >> randy weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains with hisily at ruby ridge, idaho. weaver was of interest to the 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 sawed-off 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 house s. we all have guns buried some place. >> northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from civilization itself. >> he is not a terrorist. he is not endangering anybody. everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving christian family man. >> never before has northern idaho seen this kind of firepower from the government. >> there is a shoot-out in which weaver'

. >> northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from the problems of civilization and civilization itself. >> he's not a terrorist. he's not endangering anybody. he's a good loving christian family man. >> never before has north idaho witnessed this kind of fire power from the federal government. >> what should have been a relatively routinely arrest went very badly wrong. there was a shootout in which weaver's 14-year-old son, a dog and a fire marshal all ended up dead. the sharpshooter shot his wife dead while she was carrying the baby in her arms. >> fbi are trained only to shoot only to protect themselves. the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. >> decisions were made within the fbi which allowed the snipers to shoot at any one who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. >> put a bullet in head. 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 been happened if federal authorities had just left him alone. >> he was not a story that was o

. >> not everyone who lives around here says randy weaver is in the right.hey 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 organ