1 00:00:05,875 --> 00:00:07,625 - There are people in this country 2 00:00:07,708 --> 00:00:10,000 who are furious at the federal government. 3 00:00:10,083 --> 00:00:12,042 - They have a right to believe whatever they want. 4 00:00:12,125 --> 00:00:14,792 They do not have the right to kill innocent Americans. 5 00:00:14,875 --> 00:00:16,125 [explosion] 6 00:00:16,208 --> 00:00:17,458 - There has been a massive explosion 7 00:00:17,542 --> 00:00:19,375 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 8 00:00:19,458 --> 00:00:21,667 - Police are descending upon Columbine High right now. 9 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:24,333 - We shouldn't lose vigilance, because the terrorist often 10 00:00:24,417 --> 00:00:26,167 takes the path of least resistance and strikes 11 00:00:26,250 --> 00:00:28,292 when and where we least expect them to. 12 00:00:28,375 --> 00:00:30,083 - What are you future plans? 13 00:00:30,167 --> 00:00:31,583 [translator] - You'll see them 14 00:00:31,667 --> 00:00:35,125 and hear about them in the media... 15 00:00:35,208 --> 00:00:36,583 God willing. 16 00:00:36,667 --> 00:00:39,625 [dramatic music] 17 00:00:39,708 --> 00:00:46,833 ♪ ♪ 18 00:01:31,417 --> 00:01:33,125 - Terry Anderson is free. 19 00:01:33,208 --> 00:01:35,542 He was the last of the American hostages held 20 00:01:35,625 --> 00:01:39,500 by pro-Iranian terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. 21 00:01:39,583 --> 00:01:41,542 - In the beginning of the '90s, terrorism 22 00:01:41,625 --> 00:01:43,708 was thought to be done. 23 00:01:43,792 --> 00:01:45,583 People who were likely to use terrorism 24 00:01:45,667 --> 00:01:50,000 to achieve political objectives were dead, in jail, 25 00:01:50,083 --> 00:01:51,792 or part of a new peace process. 26 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:54,250 - A Syrian delegation is in Washington today, 27 00:01:54,333 --> 00:01:57,417 ready to meet with Israel to talk about Middle East peace. 28 00:01:57,500 --> 00:01:59,958 - We thought the '90s would be a time of peace. 29 00:02:00,042 --> 00:02:02,667 Not only was the Cold War over, we had won. 30 00:02:02,750 --> 00:02:04,625 - We have before us the opportunity 31 00:02:04,708 --> 00:02:06,917 to forge a new world order, 32 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,542 a world where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations. 33 00:02:11,625 --> 00:02:13,500 - The world was changing, 34 00:02:13,583 --> 00:02:16,917 and it was an exciting time for those who really viewed America 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,875 as the nation that would embrace globalization. 36 00:02:19,958 --> 00:02:21,333 But there were many people 37 00:02:21,417 --> 00:02:23,917 who didn't like that changing America. 38 00:02:26,042 --> 00:02:29,292 - In Naples, Idaho, about 40 miles from the Canadian border, 39 00:02:29,375 --> 00:02:32,500 federal marshals are surrounding a cabin where a fugitive 40 00:02:32,583 --> 00:02:34,708 white supremacist named Randy Weaver 41 00:02:34,792 --> 00:02:36,583 is holed up with his family. 42 00:02:36,667 --> 00:02:40,125 - Randy Weaver was a survivalist who lived out in the mountains 43 00:02:40,208 --> 00:02:42,542 with his family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 44 00:02:42,625 --> 00:02:44,333 Weaver was of interest 45 00:02:44,417 --> 00:02:47,042 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms 46 00:02:47,125 --> 00:02:50,250 because he had links to the Aryan Nations, 47 00:02:50,333 --> 00:02:53,042 and they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends 48 00:02:53,125 --> 00:02:55,625 in the movement, and he refused. 49 00:02:55,708 --> 00:02:59,000 - Weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge 50 00:02:59,083 --> 00:03:01,625 that involves the selling of some sawed-off shotguns 51 00:03:01,708 --> 00:03:03,292 to law enforcement. 52 00:03:03,375 --> 00:03:05,333 - Now a force of 200 police, federal agents, 53 00:03:05,417 --> 00:03:07,875 and the National Guard have surrounded the house. 54 00:03:07,958 --> 00:03:10,333 - This is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody 55 00:03:10,417 --> 00:03:12,208 who lives up here in North Idaho. 56 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:14,083 We all have guns in our houses, 57 00:03:14,167 --> 00:03:16,042 we all have guns buried someplace. 58 00:03:16,125 --> 00:03:18,083 - Northern Idaho has become home for a lot of people, 59 00:03:18,167 --> 00:03:19,750 like Randy Weaver, 60 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:22,625 who want to be away from the problems of civilization, 61 00:03:22,708 --> 00:03:25,000 and from civilization itself. 62 00:03:25,083 --> 00:03:26,208 - He's not a terrorist. 63 00:03:26,292 --> 00:03:27,958 He's not endangering anybody. 64 00:03:28,042 --> 00:03:29,875 Everybody that knows him personally has talked about him 65 00:03:29,958 --> 00:03:32,625 as a good, loving, Christian family man. 66 00:03:32,708 --> 00:03:35,792 - Never before has North Idaho witnessed this kind of firepower 67 00:03:35,875 --> 00:03:37,583 from the federal government. 68 00:03:37,667 --> 00:03:39,625 - What should have been a relatively routine arrest 69 00:03:39,708 --> 00:03:41,500 went very badly wrong. 70 00:03:41,583 --> 00:03:45,042 There was a shootout in which Weaver's 14-year-old son, Sammy, 71 00:03:45,125 --> 00:03:48,208 and a dog and a US Marshall all ended up dead. 72 00:03:48,292 --> 00:03:51,042 An FBI sharpshooter shot his wife dead 73 00:03:51,125 --> 00:03:53,917 while she was carrying the baby in her arms. 74 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,875 - FBI agents are trained to shoot 75 00:03:55,958 --> 00:03:58,917 only to protect themselves or others. 76 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,167 The rules of engagement for Ruby Ridge were rewritten. 77 00:04:03,250 --> 00:04:07,750 - Decisions were made within the FBI which allowed the snipers 78 00:04:07,833 --> 00:04:10,500 to shoot at anyone who was armed. 79 00:04:10,583 --> 00:04:12,792 It was completely unjustifiable. 80 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:14,417 - Put a bullet in my head! 81 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:17,250 Hell, I'll make it easier, I'll turn my back on ya! 82 00:04:17,333 --> 00:04:19,875 - You baby killers! 83 00:04:19,958 --> 00:04:22,042 - Not everyone who lives around here says Randy Weaver 84 00:04:22,125 --> 00:04:24,208 is in the right, but they say 85 00:04:24,292 --> 00:04:26,000 none of this would have happened 86 00:04:26,083 --> 00:04:28,500 if federal authorities had just left him alone. 87 00:04:28,583 --> 00:04:30,792 - Ruby Ridge was not a story that was on the front page 88 00:04:30,875 --> 00:04:32,417 of the national newspapers-- 89 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:34,458 most people didn't know about it at all-- 90 00:04:34,542 --> 00:04:37,042 but it absolutely did energize the radical right. 91 00:04:37,125 --> 00:04:40,042 - The siege ended at 12:15 when Randall Weaver 92 00:04:40,125 --> 00:04:44,042 and his three children walked off the mountain after 11 days. 93 00:04:44,125 --> 00:04:46,583 - There's all this tremendous ferment that's arising 94 00:04:46,667 --> 00:04:49,250 precisely because of the end of the Cold War. 95 00:04:49,333 --> 00:04:52,125 This mindset that the United States government 96 00:04:52,208 --> 00:04:56,000 is the enemy breeds almost a decade of violence. 97 00:04:56,083 --> 00:04:58,417 [helicopter whirring] 98 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:01,125 - In Langley, Virginia, today, right outside CIA headquarters, 99 00:05:01,208 --> 00:05:03,208 a young man with a rifle opened fire on a number of people 100 00:05:03,292 --> 00:05:05,125 who were in their cars. 101 00:05:05,208 --> 00:05:08,542 - No one would ever think that a situation like a shooting 102 00:05:08,625 --> 00:05:13,917 of CIA personnel would happen on their front doorstep. 103 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,708 The shooter escapes. 104 00:05:15,792 --> 00:05:18,625 - Two CIA employees were shot to death in Virginia. 105 00:05:18,708 --> 00:05:22,333 A Pakistani suspect is reported to be back in Pakistan. 106 00:05:22,417 --> 00:05:25,292 - They figure out his name-- Mir Kansi-- 107 00:05:25,375 --> 00:05:27,250 but they don't know where to peg him. 108 00:05:27,333 --> 00:05:30,042 Who's he working for? What organization? 109 00:05:30,125 --> 00:05:34,833 - In the 1970s we were dealing with terrorist groups. 110 00:05:34,917 --> 00:05:38,333 In this case there was no group that could be identified, 111 00:05:38,417 --> 00:05:43,292 this was the actions of one single individual. 112 00:05:43,375 --> 00:05:48,250 We did not realize that terrorism seemed to be moving 113 00:05:48,333 --> 00:05:51,792 in a new direction. 114 00:05:51,875 --> 00:05:53,292 [sirens wailing] 115 00:05:53,375 --> 00:05:55,917 [people shouting] 116 00:05:59,375 --> 00:06:01,500 - A mysterious explosion underground has spread fire 117 00:06:01,583 --> 00:06:03,208 and smoke and terror 118 00:06:03,292 --> 00:06:05,708 throughout the gigantic World Trade Center towers today. 119 00:06:05,792 --> 00:06:07,542 - At 18 minutes after noon, 120 00:06:07,625 --> 00:06:09,792 something terrible happened here in lower Manhattan. 121 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:11,667 - Counter-terrorism forces tell CNN 122 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:13,625 that they now suspect the explosion 123 00:06:13,708 --> 00:06:15,792 was caused by a car bomb. 124 00:06:15,875 --> 00:06:20,375 - The bombing was designed to bring down the North Tower, 125 00:06:20,458 --> 00:06:23,625 and the North Tower then falling into the South Tower. 126 00:06:23,708 --> 00:06:26,625 - It did not, of course, collapse the towers, 127 00:06:26,708 --> 00:06:32,042 but it did kill six people and injure over a thousand more. 128 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:34,917 - I was very concerned. 129 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,250 Anything like that, any accident, tragedy, 130 00:06:37,333 --> 00:06:38,875 anything of the moment, 131 00:06:38,958 --> 00:06:41,500 you feel it very personally. 132 00:06:41,583 --> 00:06:45,583 The thing that's most amazing is that more people weren't killed, 133 00:06:45,667 --> 00:06:48,250 especially having occurred at the hour that it did 134 00:06:48,333 --> 00:06:50,583 and in the place that it did. 135 00:06:50,667 --> 00:06:52,708 - President Clinton had just come into office. 136 00:06:52,792 --> 00:06:56,250 I was in New York as Ambassador at the United Nations. 137 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:57,792 There's no way to fully explain 138 00:06:57,875 --> 00:07:00,583 how all of a sudden the mood changed. 139 00:07:00,667 --> 00:07:03,792 - I will put the full resources of the federal government, 140 00:07:03,875 --> 00:07:06,958 every conceivable law enforcement information resource 141 00:07:07,042 --> 00:07:09,333 we can put to work on this we have. 142 00:07:09,417 --> 00:07:11,167 I'm very concerned about it. 143 00:07:11,250 --> 00:07:13,875 - Federal officials are beginning to focus more heavily 144 00:07:13,958 --> 00:07:16,750 on the possibility of the explosion being the work 145 00:07:16,833 --> 00:07:18,750 of foreign terrorists. 146 00:07:18,833 --> 00:07:22,792 - The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a signal of how 147 00:07:22,875 --> 00:07:25,167 the extremist war that had been limited largely 148 00:07:25,250 --> 00:07:28,500 to the Middle East was finally coming to American shores. 149 00:07:28,583 --> 00:07:30,292 - Tonight, six days after the bombing 150 00:07:30,375 --> 00:07:33,125 at the World Trade Center, one suspect is in custody, 151 00:07:33,208 --> 00:07:35,292 more arrests are said to be coming. 152 00:07:35,375 --> 00:07:39,375 - The investigators found the VIN number of the Ryder truck, 153 00:07:39,458 --> 00:07:41,750 and it turned out that one of the collaborators 154 00:07:41,833 --> 00:07:46,250 had returned there to ask for his $400 deposit back. 155 00:07:46,333 --> 00:07:48,333 - Authorities have told ABC News that the man 156 00:07:48,417 --> 00:07:51,125 has links to a radical Muslim group. 157 00:07:51,208 --> 00:07:53,417 - They managed to capture most of the accomplices, 158 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:58,000 but the mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, fled. 159 00:07:58,083 --> 00:08:01,083 - Ramzi Yousef is smart and he's radicalized. 160 00:08:01,167 --> 00:08:03,458 His uncle is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 161 00:08:03,542 --> 00:08:04,958 a man who would later become a leader 162 00:08:05,042 --> 00:08:07,083 in an organization called Al-Qaeda. 163 00:08:07,167 --> 00:08:08,958 - I have an office in that building. 164 00:08:09,042 --> 00:08:11,167 I will lead my people back into that office. 165 00:08:11,250 --> 00:08:14,042 That will be our message to whoever did this. 166 00:08:14,125 --> 00:08:17,292 Whatever you were trying to achieve, you failed. 167 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:19,875 - For the FBI, the lesson was that these guys, 168 00:08:19,958 --> 00:08:22,500 while dangerous, were not at the same 169 00:08:22,583 --> 00:08:25,750 level as the terrorists of the late '80s. 170 00:08:25,833 --> 00:08:27,417 They were wannabes. 171 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:29,583 That, of course, would be a complete misunderstanding. 172 00:08:29,667 --> 00:08:31,292 - For the first time since the bombing, 173 00:08:31,375 --> 00:08:33,583 Tower Two will reopen for business, 174 00:08:33,667 --> 00:08:35,375 two weeks ahead of schedule. 175 00:08:35,458 --> 00:08:38,083 And that, says New York's Mayor, is a testament to a city 176 00:08:38,167 --> 00:08:41,375 that conquered the use of fear as a weapon. 177 00:08:41,458 --> 00:08:43,417 The only ones who should be fearful now, he says, 178 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:45,958 are the terrorists themselves. 179 00:08:52,458 --> 00:08:54,417 [dramatic music] 180 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,333 - Good morning, everybody, we begin this time around 181 00:08:56,417 --> 00:08:58,667 outside of Waco, Texas, where dozens of federal agents 182 00:08:58,750 --> 00:09:01,833 are surrounding the headquarters of a religious cult. 183 00:09:01,917 --> 00:09:05,792 - February 28th I got a call saying, "Get down to Waco. 184 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:08,042 There's been some kind of shootout." 185 00:09:08,125 --> 00:09:10,792 [men shouting, gunshots] 186 00:09:13,292 --> 00:09:17,250 This religious group, the Branch Davidians, had this compound. 187 00:09:17,333 --> 00:09:19,250 They had been buying parts that would convert 188 00:09:19,333 --> 00:09:23,042 semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons, 189 00:09:23,125 --> 00:09:24,792 which were illegal. 190 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:27,458 The ATF decided that it was time to go in. 191 00:09:27,542 --> 00:09:29,167 [gunshots] 192 00:09:29,250 --> 00:09:30,875 - We got people shot-- get the hell out of here! 193 00:09:30,958 --> 00:09:32,458 - Four federal agents died 194 00:09:32,542 --> 00:09:34,542 in the Sunday morning shootout there in Texas, 195 00:09:34,625 --> 00:09:36,667 16 others were wounded. 196 00:09:36,750 --> 00:09:38,917 - Almost 100 heavily-armed cult members 197 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,250 remain inside the sprawling compound. 198 00:09:41,333 --> 00:09:44,750 Cult leader David Koresh says the standoff will continue 199 00:09:44,833 --> 00:09:47,125 until God tells him to come out. 200 00:09:47,208 --> 00:09:50,958 - Koresh proclaimed himself to be a prophet. 201 00:09:51,042 --> 00:09:53,917 "The Waco Tribune" began to publish a series of articles 202 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,333 about what they called the sinful messiah 203 00:09:56,417 --> 00:09:59,167 who loves music and will drink a beer with you 204 00:09:59,250 --> 00:10:03,417 and who also happens to have sex with underage girls 205 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:05,458 and who has a lot of weapons. 206 00:10:05,542 --> 00:10:08,708 - It makes nobody's business whether we have a gun or not. 207 00:10:08,792 --> 00:10:11,875 Guns are the right of Americans to have. 208 00:10:11,958 --> 00:10:14,417 - Cult members continue fortifying their compound, 209 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:18,458 an indication there's no plan to surrender anytime soon. 210 00:10:18,542 --> 00:10:20,792 - The showdown moves into its 18th day... 211 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:22,375 - This is day 20 of the standoff. 212 00:10:22,458 --> 00:10:24,292 - This was day 32. 213 00:10:24,375 --> 00:10:28,042 - Negotiations between the cult and FBI agents have stalled. 214 00:10:28,125 --> 00:10:30,625 - It was all Waco, all the time. 215 00:10:30,708 --> 00:10:33,917 Every newscast, every newspaper, every radio newscast 216 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,250 is filled with this showdown. 217 00:10:37,333 --> 00:10:39,667 - David Koresh becomes a household name, 218 00:10:39,750 --> 00:10:42,000 and many people are inspired by him. 219 00:10:42,083 --> 00:10:43,917 He's taking it to the US government, 220 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,625 he's not gonna stand down, 221 00:10:45,708 --> 00:10:49,375 and people drive to Waco to show their support. 222 00:10:49,458 --> 00:10:51,167 - Things had reached a point 223 00:10:51,250 --> 00:10:54,000 partly because of the publicity 224 00:10:54,083 --> 00:10:56,083 that something had to give right away. 225 00:10:56,167 --> 00:10:58,250 An update on the 51-day standoff. 226 00:10:58,333 --> 00:11:00,000 Early this morning, armored vehicles 227 00:11:00,083 --> 00:11:02,292 entered cult leader David Koresh's compound 228 00:11:02,375 --> 00:11:05,917 and began punching large holes in the walls. 229 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,708 - A decision was made to inject CS gas, 230 00:11:08,792 --> 00:11:11,292 a kind of tear gas on steroids. 231 00:11:11,375 --> 00:11:14,708 All of America, along with all of law enforcement on the scene, 232 00:11:14,792 --> 00:11:16,917 is waiting for the people to come out. 233 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,417 - Suddenly, out of one of the second floor windows, 234 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:22,250 flames burst forth, and as you can see, 235 00:11:22,333 --> 00:11:25,500 it looks like at this point like the entire compound 236 00:11:25,583 --> 00:11:27,542 is just engulfed. 237 00:11:27,625 --> 00:11:32,958 I have never, in my life, seen anything burn that way. 238 00:11:33,042 --> 00:11:37,458 It just went up in this massive fireball. 239 00:11:37,542 --> 00:11:40,292 There are no signs at this point of any people 240 00:11:40,375 --> 00:11:41,875 coming out of the building. 241 00:11:41,958 --> 00:11:44,042 - The images are horrible. 242 00:11:44,125 --> 00:11:46,042 You have the federal government of the United States 243 00:11:46,125 --> 00:11:51,042 using a tank to deal with a compound that has children. 244 00:11:51,125 --> 00:11:53,250 It's not what we do in the United States, and yet, 245 00:11:53,333 --> 00:11:55,375 in many ways, the Clinton administration felt 246 00:11:55,458 --> 00:11:58,667 that Koresh had left them no alternative. 247 00:11:58,750 --> 00:12:03,083 - The offender there was David Koresh, and I do not think 248 00:12:03,167 --> 00:12:06,042 the United States government is responsible for the fact 249 00:12:06,125 --> 00:12:08,625 that a bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves, 250 00:12:08,708 --> 00:12:10,750 and I'm sorry that they killed their children. 251 00:12:10,833 --> 00:12:12,750 - It was proved later 252 00:12:12,833 --> 00:12:15,917 that the Davidians lit that building on fire themselves. 253 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,250 But there were literally millions of Americans 254 00:12:19,333 --> 00:12:21,208 who absolutely believed 255 00:12:21,292 --> 00:12:23,875 that the government had murdered those people. 256 00:12:23,958 --> 00:12:26,750 - This whole situation started with violence-- 257 00:12:26,833 --> 00:12:28,250 it was not justified, not provoked 258 00:12:28,333 --> 00:12:29,875 when the ATF went in there, 259 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:31,708 and it ended in violence 260 00:12:31,792 --> 00:12:34,167 that was not justified and not provoked. 261 00:12:34,250 --> 00:12:36,917 - Waco was proof positive to many of these people 262 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,333 that this was an aggressive, predatory federal government, 263 00:12:40,417 --> 00:12:44,542 and now we have to fight back, like the Minutemen in 1776, 264 00:12:44,625 --> 00:12:48,292 to bear arms, to defend their own rights. 265 00:12:48,375 --> 00:12:49,458 [gunshots] 266 00:12:49,542 --> 00:12:51,208 - This is the Michigan Militia, 267 00:12:51,292 --> 00:12:53,792 a self-proclaimed fighting force of ordinary citizens 268 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:56,583 preparing to defend themselves against the federal government. 269 00:12:56,667 --> 00:12:57,958 - You will be receiving live fire 270 00:12:58,042 --> 00:12:59,500 over your heads this morning. 271 00:12:59,583 --> 00:13:01,750 - There is also an armed militia here in Indiana, 272 00:13:01,833 --> 00:13:03,625 and at least 20 other states. 273 00:13:03,708 --> 00:13:05,458 - We had always had a radical right, 274 00:13:05,542 --> 00:13:08,458 but in the '90s, it really entered the mainstream. 275 00:13:08,542 --> 00:13:12,250 Gun shows became an extremely important venue 276 00:13:12,333 --> 00:13:15,042 not just for selling guns, but they're selling 277 00:13:15,125 --> 00:13:18,708 real-life Nazi literature along with survivalist handbooks 278 00:13:18,792 --> 00:13:20,250 and all that kind of thing. 279 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:21,417 - So you're prepared for a conflict 280 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,083 with the federal government. 281 00:13:23,167 --> 00:13:26,917 - Yes, we are prepared to defend our homes, our families, 282 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,792 our children, our lives, our property, yes. 283 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:32,917 - Americans are largely ignorant of what's happening 284 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,875 in the heartland with regard to this militia movement, 285 00:13:35,958 --> 00:13:37,708 and there's this extremist element of this 286 00:13:37,792 --> 00:13:40,083 which would not have been on anybody's radar, 287 00:13:40,167 --> 00:13:43,125 and that's what made them so dangerous. 288 00:13:43,208 --> 00:13:44,708 - We do have a special report from NBC News. 289 00:13:44,792 --> 00:13:46,458 There has been a massive explosion 290 00:13:46,542 --> 00:13:49,792 at a Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 291 00:13:49,875 --> 00:13:51,167 - We have no way to tell at the moment 292 00:13:51,250 --> 00:13:52,750 how many causalities there are, 293 00:13:52,833 --> 00:13:56,708 though it was explosion felt 30 miles away. 294 00:13:56,792 --> 00:13:58,750 [people shouting] 295 00:13:58,833 --> 00:14:00,250 - Rescue workers are desperately trying to save 296 00:14:00,333 --> 00:14:02,083 any remaining lives. 297 00:14:02,167 --> 00:14:05,417 You can see the facade of the building is all down. 298 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:08,333 - On April 19th, when I got to Oklahoma City, 299 00:14:08,417 --> 00:14:10,125 the building was still on fire 300 00:14:10,208 --> 00:14:12,083 and there were a whole lot of cars around the building 301 00:14:12,167 --> 00:14:14,000 that had also exploded. 302 00:14:14,083 --> 00:14:15,500 It was unbelievable. 303 00:14:15,583 --> 00:14:17,167 - Amid the horror of the bombing, 304 00:14:17,250 --> 00:14:18,875 it's the dead and wounded children 305 00:14:18,958 --> 00:14:22,667 that have stunned and angered the nation. 306 00:14:22,750 --> 00:14:26,042 - The motive behind the madness is unknown at this hour. 307 00:14:26,125 --> 00:14:29,250 The governor of Oklahoma says two things are known for sure-- 308 00:14:29,333 --> 00:14:31,417 those who did this knew what they were doing, 309 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:36,542 and whoever did it, the governor said, is some kind of animal. 310 00:14:36,625 --> 00:14:39,583 - I am pleased to announce that one of the individuals 311 00:14:39,667 --> 00:14:42,875 believed to be responsible for Wednesday's terrible attack 312 00:14:42,958 --> 00:14:46,708 in Oklahoma City has been arrested. 313 00:14:46,792 --> 00:14:49,250 Timothy McVeigh, age 27. 314 00:14:49,333 --> 00:14:51,042 [shouting] 315 00:14:51,125 --> 00:14:54,583 - The shock around the country was huge. 316 00:14:54,667 --> 00:14:56,833 This was an act of terrorism 317 00:14:56,917 --> 00:14:59,500 by one of our own citizens. 318 00:14:59,583 --> 00:15:01,167 - A second man was charged today with blowing up 319 00:15:01,250 --> 00:15:02,667 the Federal Building-- 320 00:15:02,750 --> 00:15:04,250 Terry Nichols, who has been in custody 321 00:15:04,333 --> 00:15:06,708 since just after the bombing. 322 00:15:06,792 --> 00:15:10,500 - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols met in the army. 323 00:15:10,583 --> 00:15:13,417 McVeigh had fought in the first Persian Gulf War. 324 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,083 - He left the military very disillusioned. 325 00:15:16,167 --> 00:15:19,125 The one thing that sustained him was his reading about 326 00:15:19,208 --> 00:15:22,458 the radical far right and in meeting like-minded people. 327 00:15:22,542 --> 00:15:25,333 - Timothy McVeigh's alleged plot to blow up the Federal Building 328 00:15:25,417 --> 00:15:27,292 took shape over the course of a secret 329 00:15:27,375 --> 00:15:30,042 year-long odyssey across America. 330 00:15:30,125 --> 00:15:32,542 - McVeigh visited militia groups throughout the country. 331 00:15:32,625 --> 00:15:36,500 He went to the Waco compound when it was under siege. 332 00:15:36,583 --> 00:15:41,750 On April 19th, two years to the date after the Waco incident, 333 00:15:41,833 --> 00:15:44,125 Oklahoma City was bombed. 334 00:15:44,208 --> 00:15:46,750 - Mr. President, there are tens--maybe more-- 335 00:15:46,833 --> 00:15:49,417 tens of thousands of men and women 336 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:52,125 dressing up on weekends in military garb, 337 00:15:52,208 --> 00:15:57,417 going off for training because they're upset about Waco, 338 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,458 despite what you say. 339 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:02,208 We're talking about thousands and thousands of people 340 00:16:02,292 --> 00:16:06,208 in this country who are furious at the federal government. 341 00:16:06,292 --> 00:16:09,167 - Well, they have a right to believe whatever they want, 342 00:16:09,250 --> 00:16:11,083 they have a right to say whatever they want, 343 00:16:11,167 --> 00:16:12,792 they have a right to keep and bear arms, 344 00:16:12,875 --> 00:16:14,042 they have a right to put on uniforms 345 00:16:14,125 --> 00:16:15,833 and go out on the weekends. 346 00:16:15,917 --> 00:16:18,708 They do not have the right to kill innocent Americans. 347 00:16:18,792 --> 00:16:21,208 They do not have the right to violate the law. 348 00:16:21,292 --> 00:16:24,250 - It's not like you can go to war against domestic terrorism-- 349 00:16:24,333 --> 00:16:25,583 they're ours. 350 00:16:25,667 --> 00:16:27,458 This was our problem. 351 00:16:27,542 --> 00:16:29,542 - We still don't know how much hate is growing now 352 00:16:29,625 --> 00:16:32,958 near other scrub farmhouses, in other trailer parks. 353 00:16:33,042 --> 00:16:34,917 That is, how many others there are 354 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,917 just like him. 355 00:16:44,292 --> 00:16:46,500 [dramatic music] 356 00:16:46,583 --> 00:16:48,042 - Good evening. 357 00:16:48,125 --> 00:16:49,792 It is a terrifying and long-running mystery. 358 00:16:49,875 --> 00:16:52,542 Somewhere in this country tonight there's a mad bomber 359 00:16:52,625 --> 00:16:54,708 who has been sending deadly bombs to people 360 00:16:54,792 --> 00:16:56,500 for 16 years now. 361 00:16:56,583 --> 00:17:00,792 The FBI started investigating this bomber in 1978. 362 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:03,750 - A New Jersey advertising executive opened a piece of mail 363 00:17:03,833 --> 00:17:07,458 in his home this weekend and it exploded, killing him. 364 00:17:07,542 --> 00:17:09,083 - It was a horrifying scene. 365 00:17:09,167 --> 00:17:11,167 I remember there was a cast iron skillet 366 00:17:11,250 --> 00:17:15,000 with nails embedded in it from the force of the blast. 367 00:17:15,083 --> 00:17:20,208 - This cold blooded murder is the latest deadly development 368 00:17:20,292 --> 00:17:24,500 in a series of bombings code-named "Unabom." 369 00:17:24,583 --> 00:17:27,750 - "Unabom" stands for "University Airline Bomber," 370 00:17:27,833 --> 00:17:30,875 that's because six universities, one commercial airliner, 371 00:17:30,958 --> 00:17:34,458 and one airline executive have been among the victims. 372 00:17:34,542 --> 00:17:37,458 - The FBI says it cannot find a pattern and admits 373 00:17:37,542 --> 00:17:40,583 the long investigation has been frustrating. 374 00:17:40,667 --> 00:17:44,458 - The '90s bring on a whole new challenge for law enforcement-- 375 00:17:44,542 --> 00:17:46,500 lone wolves. 376 00:17:46,583 --> 00:17:49,792 It really was the proverbial needle in a haystack. 377 00:17:49,875 --> 00:17:52,375 - All authorities have to go on is a composite sketch 378 00:17:52,458 --> 00:17:54,875 of a white male believed to be in his 40s. 379 00:17:54,958 --> 00:17:58,042 - He wasn't the only bomber we had investigated before, 380 00:17:58,125 --> 00:18:01,333 but his long, solitary operation 381 00:18:01,417 --> 00:18:04,458 as a serial bomber was so unique. 382 00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:06,167 - Unabom hotline. 383 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:08,083 - So far thousands of tips phoned into 384 00:18:08,167 --> 00:18:11,208 the San Francisco Unabom Task Force have led nowhere. 385 00:18:11,292 --> 00:18:13,583 - We began an entirely new look at this, 386 00:18:13,667 --> 00:18:15,292 an entirely new strategy. 387 00:18:15,375 --> 00:18:18,458 We brought in a crew of analysts from FBI headquarters, 388 00:18:18,542 --> 00:18:22,833 they worked 24-7, but sadly, it happened again. 389 00:18:22,917 --> 00:18:24,667 [siren wailing] 390 00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:26,500 - A mail bomb explodes 391 00:18:26,583 --> 00:18:29,583 inside the California Forestry Association building. 392 00:18:29,667 --> 00:18:32,875 - The killer known as the Unabomber says he will stop 393 00:18:32,958 --> 00:18:35,375 mailing package bombs if the newspapers 394 00:18:35,458 --> 00:18:37,500 will publish his political theories. 395 00:18:37,583 --> 00:18:39,417 - When we received the manifesto, 396 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:42,833 we felt very strongly that we should publish this. 397 00:18:42,917 --> 00:18:47,125 We think someone out there will actually recognize these words. 398 00:18:47,208 --> 00:18:50,042 - "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences 399 00:18:50,125 --> 00:18:52,292 have been a disaster for the human race," 400 00:18:52,375 --> 00:18:54,958 so begins a surprising eight-page addition 401 00:18:55,042 --> 00:18:57,375 to "The Washington Post" this morning. 402 00:18:57,458 --> 00:19:00,000 - If someone does recognize these crazed writings 403 00:19:00,083 --> 00:19:02,625 and turns him in to the authorities... 404 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:05,375 - The longest and most intense manhunt in US history 405 00:19:05,458 --> 00:19:09,708 has zeroed in on a prime suspect just outside Lincoln, Montana. 406 00:19:09,792 --> 00:19:12,292 - The big concern was, are there booby traps, 407 00:19:12,375 --> 00:19:14,583 are there explosives on the property? 408 00:19:14,667 --> 00:19:17,000 So we had to be very careful. 409 00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:19,375 We were knocking on the door of the cabin. 410 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:21,417 He started to close the door and say, 411 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,250 "Let me get my coat and come out," 412 00:19:23,333 --> 00:19:26,375 and as he did that, one of the agents pushed the door in, 413 00:19:26,458 --> 00:19:29,208 and on the morning of April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski 414 00:19:29,292 --> 00:19:31,000 was taken out of his cabin. 415 00:19:31,083 --> 00:19:33,667 - Sir, are you the Unabomber? - Are you the Unabomber? 416 00:19:33,750 --> 00:19:36,917 - FBI agents today searched the home of a 53-year-old 417 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,333 former mathematics teacher named Theodore Kaczynski. 418 00:19:40,417 --> 00:19:44,375 - The on-site investigation has yielded a cache of evidence. 419 00:19:44,458 --> 00:19:46,250 - It was the most incredible moment. 420 00:19:46,333 --> 00:19:50,417 We knew that this long journey of 18 years was over. 421 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,875 - Mike Wallace and I, together on "60 Minutes," 422 00:19:52,958 --> 00:19:55,542 interviewed Kaczynski's family, 423 00:19:55,625 --> 00:19:57,000 who had turned him in. 424 00:19:57,083 --> 00:19:58,458 - I was feeling something 425 00:19:58,542 --> 00:20:00,375 I really didn't expect to feel at all, 426 00:20:00,458 --> 00:20:03,875 which was a deep sense of unease, um, fear. 427 00:20:03,958 --> 00:20:06,125 - Because of what you read. - Because of what I read. 428 00:20:06,208 --> 00:20:08,042 - Because it sounded like Ted. 429 00:20:08,125 --> 00:20:10,833 - Because it had sounded enough like him that I could not say 430 00:20:10,917 --> 00:20:15,583 to myself or to Linda that this is not Ted's writing. 431 00:20:15,667 --> 00:20:17,833 - What can you do? 432 00:20:17,917 --> 00:20:21,167 You can't risk more lives. 433 00:20:21,250 --> 00:20:23,250 Dave couldn't. 434 00:20:23,333 --> 00:20:24,833 None of us could. 435 00:20:24,917 --> 00:20:26,708 - Apparently, some lives were saved, 436 00:20:26,792 --> 00:20:30,042 for when the FBI arrested Ted Kaczynski, they say 437 00:20:30,125 --> 00:20:33,458 they found a live bomb wrapped under his bed, 438 00:20:33,542 --> 00:20:35,042 ready for mailing. 439 00:20:35,125 --> 00:20:38,958 The only thing missing was a name and address. 440 00:20:39,042 --> 00:20:42,208 - Get your USA flags-- everybody needs to have a flag. 441 00:20:42,292 --> 00:20:44,750 - Get your lemon chills! Three for one! 442 00:20:44,833 --> 00:20:47,250 - Hats, pins, t-shirts! 443 00:20:47,333 --> 00:20:49,417 Welcome to Atlanta! 444 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:51,708 - In July of 1996, when the Olympics 445 00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:53,625 were being hosted in Atlanta, 446 00:20:53,708 --> 00:20:56,583 there was a tremendous concern about terrorist attacks. 447 00:20:56,667 --> 00:20:59,250 The security for the park was very carefully coordinated. 448 00:20:59,333 --> 00:21:01,208 - It's all taking place in the midst of security 449 00:21:01,292 --> 00:21:03,417 that an American of an earlier generation 450 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,083 could not have imagined. 451 00:21:05,167 --> 00:21:06,792 - The extra police, the extra surveillance, 452 00:21:06,875 --> 00:21:08,375 people searching their bags, 453 00:21:08,458 --> 00:21:10,000 they're willing to put up with that. 454 00:21:10,083 --> 00:21:11,458 - Nobody here is complaining about that, 455 00:21:11,542 --> 00:21:13,292 and that's the point. 456 00:21:13,375 --> 00:21:15,042 - There was one place that officials decided people 457 00:21:15,125 --> 00:21:16,583 should be able to go 458 00:21:16,667 --> 00:21:18,208 and not have to worry about check points, 459 00:21:18,292 --> 00:21:20,750 and that was Centennial Olympic Park. 460 00:21:20,833 --> 00:21:23,083 - 1:25 this morning thousands of revelers 461 00:21:23,167 --> 00:21:26,875 at an open-air rock concert in Centennial Park. 462 00:21:26,958 --> 00:21:30,125 [explosion] 463 00:21:30,208 --> 00:21:33,417 [people shouting] 464 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,167 - All of a sudden I felt a big boom, a blast. 465 00:21:36,250 --> 00:21:38,667 Heat came and then it knocked me off the wall 466 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:40,167 and blew my pants off here. 467 00:21:40,250 --> 00:21:41,708 - Move up the street! [whistle blowing] 468 00:21:41,792 --> 00:21:43,750 Everybody needs to move up the street! 469 00:21:43,833 --> 00:21:46,292 - Authorities said the device appeared to be a pipe bomb 470 00:21:46,375 --> 00:21:48,167 loaded with nails and screws, 471 00:21:48,250 --> 00:21:50,167 designed to penetrate human flesh. 472 00:21:50,250 --> 00:21:53,167 - More than 100 people have been injured, two are dead. 473 00:21:53,250 --> 00:21:56,708 - Before this device explodes, security guard, Richard Jewell, 474 00:21:56,792 --> 00:22:00,250 notices this backpack, alerts a law enforcement officer, 475 00:22:00,333 --> 00:22:02,250 and they begin to evacuate the area. 476 00:22:02,333 --> 00:22:04,125 If not for his quick thinking, 477 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:06,875 there probably would have been many more casualties. 478 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:09,042 - Jewell was hailed as a hero after the incident, 479 00:22:09,125 --> 00:22:12,000 praised even by President Clinton for his swift action. 480 00:22:12,083 --> 00:22:15,167 - The only thing I wish we could've done was, uh, 481 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:17,542 got everybody out of the area. 482 00:22:17,625 --> 00:22:20,500 - FBI has a suspect. Read all about it. 483 00:22:20,583 --> 00:22:24,250 - Almost immediately, Richard Jewell was suspected. 484 00:22:24,333 --> 00:22:28,500 They thought he actually set the bomb so he could be the hero. 485 00:22:28,583 --> 00:22:29,792 - Did you do it? 486 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:31,333 - No, sir, I didn't do this. 487 00:22:31,417 --> 00:22:33,042 - The FBI agents arrived 488 00:22:33,125 --> 00:22:35,083 at Jewell's apartment early this morning, 489 00:22:35,167 --> 00:22:36,792 armed with a search warrant. 490 00:22:36,875 --> 00:22:39,625 Agents brought in a dog and an evidence truck. 491 00:22:39,708 --> 00:22:44,375 - In the hurly-burly of trying to understand what had happened, 492 00:22:44,458 --> 00:22:48,250 Richard Jewell became the face of the Olympic Park bombing 493 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:50,417 until it was made clear that he wasn't, 494 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,583 but by then a lot of damage had been done. 495 00:22:52,667 --> 00:22:54,583 - Despite their interest, they had not found 496 00:22:54,667 --> 00:22:57,875 any physical evidence linking him to the crime scene. 497 00:22:57,958 --> 00:23:02,125 - In their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, 498 00:23:02,208 --> 00:23:07,333 the FBI and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. 499 00:23:07,417 --> 00:23:10,167 - Jewell was fed to the world's media wolves, 500 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:13,792 and the wolves obligingly fed on him for days. 501 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:16,375 It was as if he was offered up to us in the hopes 502 00:23:16,458 --> 00:23:20,625 that the blood we draw would somehow help solve the crime. 503 00:23:20,708 --> 00:23:22,750 - If Richard Jewell is no longer a suspect, 504 00:23:22,833 --> 00:23:24,792 who planted the pipe bomb? 505 00:23:24,875 --> 00:23:26,958 To be continued. 506 00:23:32,750 --> 00:23:35,125 [dramatic music] 507 00:23:35,208 --> 00:23:37,167 [helicopter whirring] - Once again, a bomb blast 508 00:23:37,250 --> 00:23:38,792 in Atlanta. 509 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:40,833 - The explosion, at about 9:30 this morning, 510 00:23:40,917 --> 00:23:44,417 blew out windows at the North Atlanta Family Planning Clinic. 511 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:46,958 - Following the Olympic bombing in July 1996, 512 00:23:47,042 --> 00:23:48,625 it's quiet for a while. 513 00:23:48,708 --> 00:23:51,375 By 1997, the same bomber strikes again. 514 00:23:51,458 --> 00:23:52,625 - It only lasted for a few seconds, 515 00:23:52,708 --> 00:23:54,375 so you're basically shocked, 516 00:23:54,458 --> 00:23:56,333 you really didn't know what was going on at the time. 517 00:23:56,417 --> 00:23:58,250 - Where were you in the building and where was the explosion? 518 00:23:58,333 --> 00:24:00,750 [explosion, reporter shouts] Oh, my God! 519 00:24:00,833 --> 00:24:02,958 - This second explosion, about an hour later, 520 00:24:03,042 --> 00:24:04,750 injured a television photographer, 521 00:24:04,833 --> 00:24:07,917 an ATF agent, and at least four others. 522 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,833 - Get back, get back! 523 00:24:09,917 --> 00:24:12,958 - When the police and the EMTs arrived 524 00:24:13,042 --> 00:24:15,583 there was a second bomb-- the intention, of course, 525 00:24:15,667 --> 00:24:18,542 being to murder as many law enforcement people as possible. 526 00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:20,958 - Second and third bombs are classic techniques 527 00:24:21,042 --> 00:24:24,625 used by the Irish Republican Army and Middle East terrorists. 528 00:24:24,708 --> 00:24:27,208 But this, apparently, is the first time it has been used 529 00:24:27,292 --> 00:24:29,708 as a tactic in the United States. 530 00:24:29,792 --> 00:24:31,708 - Another explosion-- 531 00:24:31,792 --> 00:24:34,875 the third major bombing in this city since last summer. 532 00:24:34,958 --> 00:24:36,833 - Over time there's more bombings that are similar 533 00:24:36,917 --> 00:24:39,333 to the Atlanta bombing-- same material, 534 00:24:39,417 --> 00:24:41,125 same detonation devices-- 535 00:24:41,208 --> 00:24:43,750 abortion clinics, a lesbian nightclub. 536 00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:45,417 - Federal agents went public today, 537 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,542 asking for help in locating this man, 538 00:24:47,625 --> 00:24:51,208 31-year-old Eric R. Rudolph of Marble, North Carolina. 539 00:24:51,292 --> 00:24:52,875 Not much is known about Rudolph. 540 00:24:52,958 --> 00:24:55,292 Investigators describe him as an outdoors type 541 00:24:55,375 --> 00:24:57,292 with no fixed job or address. 542 00:24:57,375 --> 00:25:01,708 - Eric Rudolph is identified as an anti-abortion terrorist 543 00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:05,167 who bombed the Olympics because he wanted a stage 544 00:25:05,250 --> 00:25:08,167 to show his anti-abortion sentiment. 545 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:10,750 Eric Rudolph goes on the run. 546 00:25:10,833 --> 00:25:13,625 ♪ ♪ 547 00:25:13,708 --> 00:25:15,708 - As we started looking for him, 548 00:25:15,792 --> 00:25:18,958 we became more and more convinced his comfort level 549 00:25:19,042 --> 00:25:21,250 is in the place he was born and raised, 550 00:25:21,333 --> 00:25:23,833 in the woods and mountains of North Carolina. 551 00:25:23,917 --> 00:25:25,958 - This truck was found yesterday. 552 00:25:26,042 --> 00:25:28,000 We believe that between Thursday and yesterday 553 00:25:28,083 --> 00:25:30,417 this truck was being driven by Eric Robert Rudolph. 554 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:32,208 - I remember, during the hunt, 555 00:25:32,292 --> 00:25:34,292 one of the military advisors said you could hide 556 00:25:34,375 --> 00:25:35,625 a whole regiment in these mountains 557 00:25:35,708 --> 00:25:37,042 and we would never find them. 558 00:25:37,125 --> 00:25:38,917 - Agents are now systematically 559 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,458 picking their way through the hundreds of caves 560 00:25:40,542 --> 00:25:42,292 that dot the area. 561 00:25:42,375 --> 00:25:45,167 Agents report encountering spiders the size of a hand 562 00:25:45,250 --> 00:25:48,125 and rattlesnakes as fat as a man's arm. 563 00:25:48,208 --> 00:25:50,375 - American law enforcement discovers 564 00:25:50,458 --> 00:25:52,958 that you can be on the FBI's Most Wanted list 565 00:25:53,042 --> 00:25:56,292 and actually hide in this country. 566 00:25:56,375 --> 00:25:59,292 This guy disappears for five years. 567 00:25:59,375 --> 00:26:02,083 - Do you think that he's getting a big kick 568 00:26:02,167 --> 00:26:04,000 out of outsmarting the Feds? 569 00:26:04,083 --> 00:26:05,542 - Well, sure, I think he is, 570 00:26:05,625 --> 00:26:08,375 I think it's part of his hide-and-seek game. 571 00:26:08,458 --> 00:26:09,542 - And he thinks he's winning. 572 00:26:09,625 --> 00:26:10,958 - He is winning. 573 00:26:11,042 --> 00:26:12,667 - In the end, he got caught 574 00:26:12,750 --> 00:26:14,375 in a sort of pathetic, little moment 575 00:26:14,458 --> 00:26:16,417 where he's rummaging around in a dumpster 576 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,167 looking for something to eat, and some local, 577 00:26:19,250 --> 00:26:21,917 rookie cop arrests him. 578 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,417 - There was a kind of unbelievable 579 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,583 quality to all of this. 580 00:26:27,667 --> 00:26:33,042 Eric Rudolph was part of this internal terrorist moment. 581 00:26:33,125 --> 00:26:37,125 It was like a worm that was eating away inside of us. 582 00:26:37,208 --> 00:26:39,167 [newscast music] 583 00:26:39,250 --> 00:26:40,917 - Welcome back, everybody, we want to bring you up to date 584 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,417 on a breaking story out of suburban Denver. 585 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,875 Apparently there's been a school shooting at a high school 586 00:26:45,958 --> 00:26:49,083 in the town of Littleton. 587 00:26:49,167 --> 00:26:53,000 - The '90s bring us the first mass school shootings. 588 00:26:53,083 --> 00:26:54,583 There's something especially disturbing 589 00:26:54,667 --> 00:26:57,667 about premeditated murder by young people. 590 00:26:57,750 --> 00:26:59,542 - Police and law enforcement 591 00:26:59,625 --> 00:27:02,625 are descending upon Columbine High right now. 592 00:27:02,708 --> 00:27:04,708 - They do believe that at least two people are inside 593 00:27:04,792 --> 00:27:08,792 with multiple automatic weapons and perhaps some pipe bombs, 594 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:11,042 we've heard, unconfirmed, again, from police. 595 00:27:11,125 --> 00:27:13,042 - It hit local TV very quickly. 596 00:27:13,125 --> 00:27:16,458 I happened to see this on television and got in my car. 597 00:27:16,542 --> 00:27:20,917 I saw a ring of choppers, like vultures circling, 598 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,792 and I knew instantly this was so much worse than I had imagined. 599 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:27,625 - Masked gunmen in trench coats start shooting 600 00:27:27,708 --> 00:27:29,375 into the school's cafeteria. 601 00:27:29,458 --> 00:27:32,625 Kids scatter, shots ring off lockers and walls. 602 00:27:32,708 --> 00:27:34,208 Students are hit. 603 00:27:34,292 --> 00:27:36,167 - And they're just, like, spraying across? 604 00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:38,542 - They just start shooting at anybody, walking, talking, 605 00:27:38,625 --> 00:27:41,167 it didn't matter-- boom, they shot, they didn't care. 606 00:27:41,250 --> 00:27:42,500 - You have blood on your hand. 607 00:27:42,583 --> 00:27:45,125 - Everyone around me got shot, 608 00:27:45,208 --> 00:27:48,792 and I begged him for ten minutes not to shoot me. 609 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:52,125 - It was horrific, it was beyond unthinkable. 610 00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:55,042 And yet, we were watching it as it happened. 611 00:27:55,125 --> 00:27:58,250 - You can see in the upper part of your screen a student, 612 00:27:58,333 --> 00:28:02,000 a badly bloodied student, hanging out a window. 613 00:28:06,417 --> 00:28:10,458 - The emotion was incredible. 614 00:28:10,542 --> 00:28:14,167 It's hard for a parent to see the parents who came. 615 00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:16,708 ♪ ♪ 616 00:28:16,792 --> 00:28:20,375 - They went through the school, shooting classmates, 617 00:28:20,458 --> 00:28:22,000 shooting teachers. 618 00:28:22,083 --> 00:28:24,625 Thirteen people died and 21 were injured. 619 00:28:24,708 --> 00:28:27,792 The police had arrived, they didn't want to be arrested, 620 00:28:27,875 --> 00:28:29,250 so they took their own lives. 621 00:28:29,333 --> 00:28:31,125 - Tomorrow morning's "Denver Post" 622 00:28:31,208 --> 00:28:34,792 identifies the two suspects as 18-year-old Eric Harris 623 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:36,958 and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold. 624 00:28:37,042 --> 00:28:40,667 Both reportedly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. 625 00:28:40,750 --> 00:28:43,250 - Local authorities searched the homes of the two boys 626 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:45,708 and say they found the makings for pipe bombs 627 00:28:45,792 --> 00:28:48,208 and other explosive devices. 628 00:28:48,292 --> 00:28:51,458 - The gruesome but all too familiar dénouement begins. 629 00:28:51,542 --> 00:28:53,333 The search for a motivation, 630 00:28:53,417 --> 00:28:55,000 the calls for tighter gun control, 631 00:28:55,083 --> 00:28:57,292 the counseling sessions at school, 632 00:28:57,375 --> 00:29:00,208 and the endless, endless grief. 633 00:29:00,292 --> 00:29:03,000 - There had been school shootings before, 634 00:29:03,083 --> 00:29:04,875 but never one quite like this. 635 00:29:04,958 --> 00:29:10,625 It put those school shootings in a whole new and darker category. 636 00:29:10,708 --> 00:29:14,917 It also raised a flood of questions of, 637 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,167 what is happening to our youth? 638 00:29:17,250 --> 00:29:20,458 - I believe some of these kids are drifting deeper and deeper 639 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:25,333 and deeper into rock music, violence, and that subculture. 640 00:29:25,417 --> 00:29:27,917 - The biggest question is why did they do it? 641 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,625 They were completely different people, 642 00:29:29,708 --> 00:29:32,458 opposite personalities, and opposite motives. 643 00:29:32,542 --> 00:29:37,708 Dylan was suicidally depressed, he really wanted to die. 644 00:29:37,792 --> 00:29:40,083 Eric Harris was the ringleader, 645 00:29:40,167 --> 00:29:42,917 he wanted to show how powerful he was. 646 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,875 - On his internet page, Harris wrote, 647 00:29:44,958 --> 00:29:47,750 "Pipe bombs are some of the easiest and deadliest ways 648 00:29:47,833 --> 00:29:50,583 to kill a group of people." 649 00:29:50,667 --> 00:29:53,167 - Columbine wasn't really intended as a school shooting. 650 00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:55,583 It was primarily intended as a bombing. 651 00:29:55,667 --> 00:29:58,042 - They were inspired by the Oklahoma City bombing. 652 00:29:58,125 --> 00:30:01,125 They hoped that they would kill as many as 500 people. 653 00:30:01,208 --> 00:30:03,875 In the end a lot of their homemade bombs did not detonate. 654 00:30:03,958 --> 00:30:06,083 [school bell ringing] 655 00:30:06,167 --> 00:30:08,750 - School bells have an ominous ring to them. 656 00:30:08,833 --> 00:30:11,792 Is it about to happen in our schools? 657 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:15,292 - What Columbine did, in sort of the arc of terrorism, 658 00:30:15,375 --> 00:30:17,833 was open a terrible Pandora's Box, 659 00:30:17,917 --> 00:30:21,042 because terrorism was always used for political ends, 660 00:30:21,125 --> 00:30:23,458 and what Eric and Dylan decided was like, 661 00:30:23,542 --> 00:30:26,083 why don't we just do this terrorist stuff 662 00:30:26,167 --> 00:30:28,042 for our own aggrandizement? 663 00:30:28,125 --> 00:30:31,125 And they did, and that created a whole new template 664 00:30:31,208 --> 00:30:33,750 of these spectacle murders. 665 00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:36,542 We're giving them the platform to do this. 666 00:30:36,625 --> 00:30:38,750 We provide the coverage. 667 00:30:38,833 --> 00:30:42,500 They do the act and then we make them the stars. 668 00:30:48,667 --> 00:30:51,167 [dramatic music] 669 00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:52,750 - The White House has now confirmed 670 00:30:52,833 --> 00:30:55,958 that Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind 671 00:30:56,042 --> 00:30:57,917 of the bombing of the World Trade Center, 672 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,125 has been arrested in Pakistan. 673 00:31:00,208 --> 00:31:02,583 - About 11 hours of deliberation before the seven men 674 00:31:02,667 --> 00:31:05,583 and five women unanimously sentenced McVeigh 675 00:31:05,667 --> 00:31:07,667 to death by lethal injection. 676 00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:10,000 - The FBI says the man wanted in a fatal shooting 677 00:31:10,083 --> 00:31:13,125 outside CIA headquarters has been turned over to the US. 678 00:31:13,208 --> 00:31:14,833 - The Unabomber now knows his sentence, 679 00:31:14,917 --> 00:31:16,792 and it is life in prison. 680 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:19,625 - Over the course of the 1990s a lot of terrorism threats 681 00:31:19,708 --> 00:31:21,708 were dealt with as law enforcement cases. 682 00:31:21,792 --> 00:31:25,708 The Department of Justice and the FBI would find their guy 683 00:31:25,792 --> 00:31:27,625 and they would prosecute him. 684 00:31:27,708 --> 00:31:30,375 It isn't that that wasn't essential, that strategy. 685 00:31:30,458 --> 00:31:33,417 It just meant that we weren't perceiving the threat 686 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,250 as something bigger. 687 00:31:35,333 --> 00:31:38,042 - This is the new face of terror, Osama Bin Laden, 688 00:31:38,125 --> 00:31:41,333 the 39-year-old renegade son of a Saudi billionaire, 689 00:31:41,417 --> 00:31:45,042 an Islamic fundamentalist, elusive, mysterious. 690 00:31:45,125 --> 00:31:46,958 - Bin Laden's academic training was in economics 691 00:31:47,042 --> 00:31:48,875 and public administration, 692 00:31:48,958 --> 00:31:52,917 so he brought the sensibilities of a businessman to terrorism 693 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,833 when he creates Al-Qaeda. 694 00:31:54,917 --> 00:31:56,417 - Call it Terror, Inc. 695 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:58,542 Private jets, Swiss bank accounts-- 696 00:31:58,625 --> 00:32:00,667 he gives orders via the internet. 697 00:32:00,750 --> 00:32:03,958 - When it comes to issues like motive, money, network, 698 00:32:04,042 --> 00:32:06,125 he's one of the few in the world 699 00:32:06,208 --> 00:32:09,458 who has all the various components. 700 00:32:09,542 --> 00:32:11,708 Bin Laden, who had been a de facto ally 701 00:32:11,792 --> 00:32:14,250 of the United States during the Soviet invasion 702 00:32:14,333 --> 00:32:16,667 of Afghanistan in the 1980s, 703 00:32:16,750 --> 00:32:18,542 turned on the United States. 704 00:32:18,625 --> 00:32:21,333 - He was angry at the lingering American presence 705 00:32:21,417 --> 00:32:23,042 in Saudi Arabia. 706 00:32:23,125 --> 00:32:25,833 I mean, the war with Saddam Hussein was over. 707 00:32:25,917 --> 00:32:27,708 It was seen as this great insult, 708 00:32:27,792 --> 00:32:32,083 to have non-Muslims in the country defending it. 709 00:32:32,167 --> 00:32:34,667 - I first heard the name Osama Bin Laden in a story 710 00:32:34,750 --> 00:32:35,917 in "The New York Times". 711 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,333 I went to my bosses at CNN, 712 00:32:37,417 --> 00:32:39,208 saying let's try and meet this guy 713 00:32:39,292 --> 00:32:40,917 and find out what his deal is. 714 00:32:41,042 --> 00:32:43,500 - Amidst these remote mountains of Afghanistan 715 00:32:43,583 --> 00:32:45,833 are the various hiding places 716 00:32:45,917 --> 00:32:48,167 of one of the world's most wanted men-- 717 00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:49,625 Osama Bin Laden. 718 00:32:49,708 --> 00:32:51,458 - Peter Arnett, the correspondent, 719 00:32:51,542 --> 00:32:53,458 and Peter Jouvenal, the cameraman, and myself, 720 00:32:53,542 --> 00:32:56,292 we travelled with Bin Laden's associates 721 00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:58,500 into the mountains of Afghanistan, 722 00:32:58,583 --> 00:33:00,458 which at that time was controlled by the Taliban. 723 00:33:00,542 --> 00:33:03,625 - A year ago Bin Laden took refuge here in Afghanistan. 724 00:33:03,708 --> 00:33:05,833 Afghanistan is perhaps the only country in the world 725 00:33:05,917 --> 00:33:07,375 that will accept him. 726 00:33:07,458 --> 00:33:10,083 For his first television interview, 727 00:33:10,167 --> 00:33:12,333 he figured he'd have a world audience. 728 00:33:12,417 --> 00:33:14,458 Mr. Bin Laden, you have declared a Jihad 729 00:33:14,542 --> 00:33:16,708 against the United States. 730 00:33:16,792 --> 00:33:18,000 Can you tell us why? 731 00:33:18,083 --> 00:33:19,792 [translator] - The arrogance 732 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:21,750 of the United States regime has reached the point 733 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:25,958 that they occupied Arabia, the holiest place of the Muslims, 734 00:33:26,042 --> 00:33:29,750 who are more than a billion people in the world today. 735 00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:33,833 - What are your future plans? 736 00:33:33,917 --> 00:33:35,333 [translator] - You'll see them 737 00:33:35,417 --> 00:33:39,125 and hear about them in the media... 738 00:33:39,208 --> 00:33:41,500 God willing. 739 00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:44,375 [people shouting, sirens wailing] 740 00:33:47,208 --> 00:33:50,250 - On the eighth anniversary of the US deployment 741 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:53,917 in Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden's forces 742 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,292 bombed two American embassies in Africa. 743 00:33:58,375 --> 00:34:01,083 - It was mid-morning in Nairobi when a powerful bomb 744 00:34:01,167 --> 00:34:03,833 exploded outside the US embassy. 745 00:34:03,917 --> 00:34:05,750 The building behind the embassy 746 00:34:05,833 --> 00:34:08,792 crumbled into a tangle of concrete and steel, 747 00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,667 turning the sidewalk red with blood. 748 00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:16,208 A passing bus, its windows blown out, people onboard incinerated. 749 00:34:16,292 --> 00:34:17,792 - Almost simultaneously, 750 00:34:17,875 --> 00:34:21,000 415 miles away, another deadly blast. 751 00:34:21,083 --> 00:34:22,792 The target? The US embassy 752 00:34:22,875 --> 00:34:25,083 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 753 00:34:25,167 --> 00:34:29,500 - Simultaneous attacks become the hallmark of Al-Qaeda 754 00:34:29,583 --> 00:34:32,250 demonstrating its power. 755 00:34:32,333 --> 00:34:34,417 - The death toll now stands at 210. 756 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,000 5,000 people were injured. 757 00:34:37,083 --> 00:34:39,250 - This attack is very sophisticated, 758 00:34:39,333 --> 00:34:41,375 it is very coordinated. 759 00:34:41,458 --> 00:34:45,000 This is an enemy that we were not prepared for. 760 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,583 - Overseas tonight Secretary of State Madeline Albright 761 00:34:47,667 --> 00:34:49,875 spent the day in East Africa. 762 00:34:49,958 --> 00:34:52,500 - I went to Kenya, I also went to Tanzania 763 00:34:52,583 --> 00:34:54,125 to see what had happened, 764 00:34:54,208 --> 00:34:56,833 basically still trying to collect the facts. 765 00:34:56,917 --> 00:35:00,708 We began to be able to trace that to Osama Bin Laden. 766 00:35:00,792 --> 00:35:04,667 We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage 767 00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:09,625 by people who do not like what we stand for. 768 00:35:09,708 --> 00:35:12,250 - Bin Laden's group is suddenly a real player. 769 00:35:12,333 --> 00:35:13,667 And the Clinton administration 770 00:35:13,750 --> 00:35:15,625 decides to do something about it. 771 00:35:15,708 --> 00:35:17,875 - American military forces struck a series of targets 772 00:35:17,958 --> 00:35:20,417 overseas in Sudan and Afghanistan. 773 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,167 [missiles whooshing] 774 00:35:23,250 --> 00:35:24,667 - The unmanned Tomahawk missile 775 00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:26,417 was the Pentagon's weapon of choice 776 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,042 for the surprise aerial attacks 777 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:29,833 aimed at sending a pointed message 778 00:35:29,917 --> 00:35:33,417 to accused terrorist kingpin, Osama Bin Laden. 779 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,208 - America has battled terrorism for many years. 780 00:35:36,292 --> 00:35:38,292 We have quietly disrupted terrorist groups 781 00:35:38,375 --> 00:35:40,000 and foiled their plots. 782 00:35:40,083 --> 00:35:42,458 But there have been, and will be times, 783 00:35:42,542 --> 00:35:45,958 when our very national security is challenged, 784 00:35:46,042 --> 00:35:48,917 and when we must take extraordinary steps 785 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,958 to protect the safety of our citizens. 786 00:35:53,042 --> 00:35:55,333 - Within minutes of today's attacks in Afghanistan 787 00:35:55,417 --> 00:35:58,000 and Sudan, some in Washington were openly questioning 788 00:35:58,083 --> 00:35:59,667 the timing of it. 789 00:35:59,750 --> 00:36:02,000 - It was the "wag the dog" question about the movie 790 00:36:02,083 --> 00:36:04,875 where a president fakes a war to distract the country 791 00:36:04,958 --> 00:36:07,542 from news of his sexual dalliances. 792 00:36:07,625 --> 00:36:10,500 - There are quite a few people who believe that Clinton 793 00:36:10,583 --> 00:36:14,625 is trying to distract Americans with a shiny object 794 00:36:14,708 --> 00:36:18,292 from what really matters, which is his impeachment trouble. 795 00:36:18,375 --> 00:36:20,292 For the remainder of his time in office, 796 00:36:20,375 --> 00:36:22,542 he wouldn't authorize attacks unless the information 797 00:36:22,625 --> 00:36:26,833 was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. 798 00:36:26,917 --> 00:36:29,792 - We came within yards, 799 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:33,333 literally, of taking out Osama Bin Laden himself. 800 00:36:33,417 --> 00:36:35,167 - And he got away, obviously. 801 00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:38,583 - Well, like, you know, happenstance, luck. 802 00:36:38,667 --> 00:36:40,792 - Bin Laden, at war with the United States 803 00:36:40,875 --> 00:36:42,792 every second of every day, 804 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:45,750 according to counter-terrorism officials who tell NBC News 805 00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:48,958 his terror network now operates in 50 countries, 806 00:36:49,042 --> 00:36:50,625 training camps in 20. 807 00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,542 - We had entered a different era. 808 00:36:52,625 --> 00:36:54,958 You'd have an enemy that is completely amorphous. 809 00:36:55,042 --> 00:36:57,875 They can be in Yemen, they can be in Saudi Arabia, 810 00:36:57,958 --> 00:37:00,833 they can be in Paris, in London, they can be everywhere. 811 00:37:07,333 --> 00:37:09,542 [dramatic music] 812 00:37:09,625 --> 00:37:12,667 - What's the fear of Bin Laden today? 813 00:37:12,750 --> 00:37:15,208 - If, in fact, he is trying to mount another attack, 814 00:37:15,292 --> 00:37:18,583 and all the intelligence senior analysts have said publicly 815 00:37:18,667 --> 00:37:21,375 before Congress and on television, 816 00:37:21,458 --> 00:37:23,083 that they believe he is, 817 00:37:23,167 --> 00:37:26,208 then you end up moving towards American symbols, 818 00:37:26,292 --> 00:37:28,708 corporate symbols, or tourism, 819 00:37:28,792 --> 00:37:30,125 or America stateside. 820 00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:32,208 - By the end of the decade, 821 00:37:32,292 --> 00:37:35,167 the American and other foreign intelligence agencies 822 00:37:35,250 --> 00:37:37,042 were very much on guard. 823 00:37:37,125 --> 00:37:41,125 The chatter on intercepts was that the turn of a century or, 824 00:37:41,208 --> 00:37:43,125 in this case, a millennium, 825 00:37:43,208 --> 00:37:45,750 this would be a great opportunity to be memorable. 826 00:37:45,833 --> 00:37:47,333 - Tonight, a man in custody, 827 00:37:47,417 --> 00:37:49,042 a man who came across the Canadian border 828 00:37:49,125 --> 00:37:52,417 headed for Seattle with a truckload of explosives 829 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:54,375 and timing devices. 830 00:37:54,458 --> 00:37:57,000 - Authorities say the suspect arrives at Port Angeles, 831 00:37:57,083 --> 00:38:00,292 Washington, aboard the car ferry from Victoria, British Columbia, 832 00:38:00,375 --> 00:38:02,958 but he's nervous, acting suspiciously. 833 00:38:03,042 --> 00:38:06,500 - It was a border guard in Washington state, 834 00:38:06,583 --> 00:38:08,500 she stopped the man who was the driver 835 00:38:08,583 --> 00:38:11,292 and asked if she could look into his truck. 836 00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:13,208 - Authorities fear he was part of a plot 837 00:38:13,292 --> 00:38:15,167 to launch a New Year Eve's attack, 838 00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:17,750 and that he was not acting alone. 839 00:38:17,833 --> 00:38:20,708 There may be a connection to Saudi-born terrorist, 840 00:38:20,792 --> 00:38:22,208 Osama Bin Laden. 841 00:38:22,292 --> 00:38:24,583 But as one US official worries tonight, 842 00:38:24,667 --> 00:38:27,667 there's still a lot we don't know. 843 00:38:27,750 --> 00:38:30,708 - Ahmed Ressam in some respects was a new kind of terrorist. 844 00:38:30,792 --> 00:38:32,958 In the past, Al-Qaeda operatives had been given 845 00:38:33,042 --> 00:38:36,625 very specific orders and direct targeting instructions. 846 00:38:36,708 --> 00:38:39,708 Ressam, though, is given $12,000 in seed money. 847 00:38:39,792 --> 00:38:41,625 He's told to raise the rest of your funds, 848 00:38:41,708 --> 00:38:44,708 recruit your own cell and bomb whatever you want. 849 00:38:44,792 --> 00:38:46,667 - Two quart jars of nitroglycerine 850 00:38:46,750 --> 00:38:49,292 and three garbage bags filled with the chemical urea 851 00:38:49,375 --> 00:38:51,083 were found in the trunk. 852 00:38:51,167 --> 00:38:53,250 - The explosive ingredients are the same used 853 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:56,333 in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. 854 00:38:56,417 --> 00:39:00,125 - His mission is to blow up one of the terminals at LAX, 855 00:39:00,208 --> 00:39:02,292 Los Angeles airport, and he gets stopped. 856 00:39:02,375 --> 00:39:05,083 - Even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, 857 00:39:05,167 --> 00:39:08,458 the threat may not yet be over. 858 00:39:08,542 --> 00:39:12,625 - We ended the decade with the clear perception now 859 00:39:12,708 --> 00:39:18,292 that we were engaged with a terrorist organization 860 00:39:18,375 --> 00:39:20,625 that had declared war on us 861 00:39:20,708 --> 00:39:24,208 and was determined to carry out more attacks. 862 00:39:24,292 --> 00:39:27,625 His interest is in achieving a large body count, 863 00:39:27,708 --> 00:39:30,125 that is the reality of today's terrorism. 864 00:39:30,208 --> 00:39:32,042 - Fears of sabotage have also prompted 865 00:39:32,125 --> 00:39:34,667 tighter security at airports, border crossings, 866 00:39:34,750 --> 00:39:36,917 utilities and tunnels in many states. 867 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,333 - ABC News released results today from a poll that asked, 868 00:39:40,417 --> 00:39:42,667 how concerned are you about the possibility 869 00:39:42,750 --> 00:39:44,750 of a domestic terrorist attack? 870 00:39:44,833 --> 00:39:47,458 73% said they weren't worried. 871 00:39:47,542 --> 00:39:50,042 - The challenge is sustaining counter-terrorism 872 00:39:50,125 --> 00:39:51,708 as a policy priority. 873 00:39:51,792 --> 00:39:55,083 We shouldn't lose vigilance after January one-- 874 00:39:55,167 --> 00:39:57,667 we need to sustain these efforts because the terrorist 875 00:39:57,750 --> 00:40:00,292 often takes the path of least resistance and strikes 876 00:40:00,375 --> 00:40:02,042 when and where we least expect them to. 877 00:40:02,125 --> 00:40:03,833 - The government and security people 878 00:40:03,917 --> 00:40:07,083 all over the country have to be lucky every day. 879 00:40:07,167 --> 00:40:10,208 Terrorists have to be lucky only once. 880 00:40:10,292 --> 00:40:12,000 [explosions] 881 00:40:12,083 --> 00:40:14,042 - If you look back at the '90s in their totality, 882 00:40:14,125 --> 00:40:17,000 there was a lot of violence going on in the United States 883 00:40:17,083 --> 00:40:18,917 on American soil. 884 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,708 - Seeing the 1990s whole, if you will, 885 00:40:21,792 --> 00:40:25,583 and looking at major pivot points-- 886 00:40:25,667 --> 00:40:29,708 Columbine, the shooting in schools in Colorado, 887 00:40:29,792 --> 00:40:34,958 the bombing in Oklahoma City, the Davidian compound in Waco-- 888 00:40:35,042 --> 00:40:36,375 they were indicative of something 889 00:40:36,458 --> 00:40:39,875 deep within the country. 890 00:40:39,958 --> 00:40:43,083 Something dark was moving in our society. 891 00:40:43,167 --> 00:40:44,875 - As the year 2000 approaches, 892 00:40:44,958 --> 00:40:46,875 groups that track the nation's militias say 893 00:40:46,958 --> 00:40:49,958 hatred of the government and fear of martial law are growing. 894 00:40:50,042 --> 00:40:52,750 - It's hard to think of any decade that comes close 895 00:40:52,833 --> 00:40:55,375 to the 1990s in terms of the number 896 00:40:55,458 --> 00:40:58,250 and the enormity of attacks 897 00:40:58,333 --> 00:41:03,042 directed and designed to get back at the US government. 898 00:41:03,125 --> 00:41:05,500 - These very powerful subterranean forces 899 00:41:05,583 --> 00:41:07,208 were marshalling their strength 900 00:41:07,292 --> 00:41:10,000 to really plunge us into a new era of violence 901 00:41:10,083 --> 00:41:11,542 in the new millennium. 902 00:41:11,625 --> 00:41:13,208 - It was bad enough 903 00:41:13,292 --> 00:41:15,417 when all this horror happened somewhere else. 904 00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:17,708 But now that the world's become a global village, 905 00:41:17,792 --> 00:41:20,083 there is no somewhere else anymore. 906 00:41:20,167 --> 00:41:23,542 Look out, America, terrorism's come home. 907 00:41:23,625 --> 00:41:26,417 ♪ ♪ 908 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:30,000 - I think we are in for a long time, you know-- 909 00:41:30,083 --> 00:41:32,125 - Of things like this? - Of things like this. 910 00:41:32,208 --> 00:41:35,833 This is the new, the war, the battles of the end 911 00:41:35,917 --> 00:41:38,000 of this century and the beginning of the next one. 912 00:41:38,083 --> 00:41:40,250 And this country, when we put our mind to it, 913 00:41:40,333 --> 00:41:42,750 whether it was the first World War or the second World War 914 00:41:42,833 --> 00:41:46,125 or the Cold War, we have an enemy, and the enemy 915 00:41:46,208 --> 00:41:49,250 are the terrorists who do not believe in what we do, 916 00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:50,875 open societies and freedom. 917 00:41:50,958 --> 00:41:53,375 They are out to kill plain, innocent people, 918 00:41:53,458 --> 00:41:55,542 and we have to understand... - It is a war. 919 00:41:55,625 --> 00:41:57,667 - That this is a sustained effort. 920 00:41:57,750 --> 00:42:04,833 ♪ ♪