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03/01/1993 Famous Federal Killings that have gone unpunished:
--December 1984. Robert Mathews, founder of The Order, died Dec.
8 when his house was set on fire by FBI flares after a 35-hour
standoff in in a house on Whidbey Island near Seattle. He was
accused of shooting an FBI agent.
--June 1983. Gordon Kahl, head of the militant anti-tax group Posse
Comitatus, and a sheriff were killed June 3 when police ambused Kahl
on a highway near Smithville, Ark.
--January 1988. Thirteen-day standoff at farm in Marion, Utah,
ended Jan. 28. Three persons were convicted in the death of a
corrections official killed in the siege. Dispute arose from the
1979 death of clan leader John Singer, killed by a deputy trying to
serve him an arrest warrant.
--August 1992. Randy Weaver with his wife, three daughters and a
family friend for 11 days in his remote cabin, 110 miles northeast
of Spokane, Wash. The standoff began Aug. 21 when Weaver's teen-age
son and a federal agent were killed in a shootout. Weaver's wife was
killed by a federal sniper the next day. Weaver was a member of the
Christian Identity Movement, which combines biblical beliefs with
white-supremacist politics.
--February 1993. Vernon Howell (David Koresh) and members of his
religious followers who live on a compound in Waco, Texas, were
assaulted with concussion grenades and rifle fire as BATF agents
arrived, ostensibly to serve a search warrant for "illegal machine
guns" based upon an informant's tip. 4 Marshalls killed, 15
wounded.