Bill Morlin

1. After a night of surveillance at the Four Most 4x4 garage, FBI agents search the building rented by Robert Berry, a suspect in the Spokane Valley bombings and robberies. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 2. The FBI's Kenneth Piernick, left, and Robert Bryant head the agency's anti-terrorism fight. They have an additional 500 agents at their disposal. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 3. "There's nothing under there but a bald spot," says an Oregon militia member as he is searched by an FBI agent near the freemen compound at Jordan, Mont. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 4. Patrick Hynes, the ATF's assistant director, keeps tabs on domestic terrorism from the agency's office in Washington, D.C. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

1. Left: Flamethrowers and heated rhetoric find a receptive audience at the semiannual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot near Louisville, Ky., where militia recruiters mingle with folks who just like automatic weapons. Photos by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2.Dannie Sebastian, left, a corporal in the Kentucky Rifleman Militia, hands out recruiting brochures at the machine-gun shoot. 3. Left: A teenager fires a .50-caliber machine gun at the annual Kentucky gathering. 4. Below: Kent Lomont of Salmon, Idaho, cools off his barrel.

1. Peter Langan 2. Above: Commander Pedro, who authorities say is Peter Langan, dismisses troops after receiving a Halloween bucket filled with cash from a "mission." Photo from Aryan Republican Army video 3. Left: Langan, with dyed hair, was arrested after a shootout with police in Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Columbus Dispatch

1. Carl Whalen, left, and Bill Stultz ponder their next move after the Arizona Supreme Court rejected their challenge of a lower court's jurisdiction on charges they filed fraudulent liens against public officials. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. Herbert Crawford

Willie Ray Lampley, in federal prison in Springville, Ill., believes the New World Order will implement its plan for world domination by April. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

1. Police destroy a contanimated trailer used in a drug lab operatin near Burns., Ore. Photo by Harney County Sheriff's Department 2. Anti-government activist Edwin Dale McCLain awaits trial on drug charges in Yakima. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

1. The Aryan Nations compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho, where this teenager, Laura, attended the Aryan youth gathering in April. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 2. David Barley, pastor of America's Promise Ministries in Sandpoint, introduces the speaker at lecture on Gulf War Syndrome.

1. "Today, we are preparing to take over the U.S.A. Tomorrow, the world," says the leader of the Aryan Republican Army, a racist group charged in 19 bank robberies. Read their story on page H3. Photo from Aryan Republican Army video 2. An ATF agent examines the Planned Parenthood clinic bombed in July. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 3. Walter Thody, a self-described Phineas priest, claims his group performed at least one assassination in addition to the bank robberies for which he is serving time in federal prison. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 4. Above: Militia member dashes through the woods with cover from his partner in North Idaho training exercise. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 5. Left: Kentucky Riflemen Militia members guard secret meeting of militias at a VFW post in Shepherdsville, Ky. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 6. Authorities believe the men arrested for bombings and bank robberies in the Spokane Valley have militia ties. U.S. Bank photo 7. Charles Barbee, a Christian Identity follower from Sandpoint, was ready for guerrilla war against the federal government. Now, he is in jail, indicted for three Spokane Valley bombings and two bank robberies. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

1. "We're just wanting to raise our children in a God-fearing way," says Daniel Libner, who lives with his wife, Dorcas, and their year-old daughter, Tabitha, in Elohim City. Photos by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. A group of girls marches through a religious ceremony at Elohim City, a Christian Identity compound in a remote part of eastern Oklahoma. 3. The Rev. Robert Millar presides over the enclave of Christian Identity followers. 4. The Rev. Robert Millar retrieved the body of Richard Wayne Snell, a white supremacist executed the same day as the Oklahoma bombing. 5. A mailbox outside of Elohim City.

The city of Spokane has lost another legal battle in its 10-year-old fight with a large Gypsy family that claims civil rights violations in police searches. A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Spokane police officers aren't entitled to use a qualified immunity defense in a $40 million civil rights lawsuit. Such a defense would eliminate damages from individual officers involved in 1986 police searches at the Spokane homes of Gypsy leaders Grover and James Marks.

Court documents unsealed Friday offer new insights into the case against three North Idaho men accused of domestic terrorism in Spokane Valley bombings and bank robberies. The documents reveal these allegations: The suspects frequently talked about killing police officers and bank security guards.

Federal prosecutors will seek the "maximum sentence allowable by law" for three accused domestic terrorists from North Idaho. Charles H. Barbee, Verne Jay Merrell and Robert S. Berry, all of Sandpoint, face life imprisonment without possibility of parole if convicted.

A neo-Nazi skinhead from Spokane is under arrest in South Dakota and will be questioned about an execution-style triple murder in Arkansas. At least two other suspects, one with ties to the Northwest, are being sought for questioning about the murders of Arkansas gun dealer William Mueller, his wife and her daughter, law enforcement sources say.

FBI agents seized parts of a new 4-wheel-drive pickup in a Sandpoint auto shop owned by a suspect in the Spokane Valley bank robberies and bombings. The dismantled 1996 GMC Sierra, worth $29,000, and a second new vehicle worth $38,600 were stolen Sept. 20 from a Pocatello, Idaho, dealership, authorities say. The theft of the vehicles in southern Idaho was part of a conspiracy to commit various acts of domestic terrorism, Justice Department officials say. Those responsible are self-described Phineas priests, whose Christian Identity religious beliefs justify certain acts that others would consider crimes.

Three North Idaho men now are formally charged in a 12-count federal indictment accusing them of two Spokane Valley bank robberies and three bombings. An indictment was returned Thursday in Spokane by a grand jury that spent 2-1/2 days listening to federal agents outline evidence against the trio. Verne Jay Merrell, Charles H. Barbee and Robert S. Berry are scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 18.

A federal judge granted a 30-day delay Friday before a case against three accused domestic terrorists will be reviewed by a grand jury in Spokane. Attorneys representing imprisoned suspects Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Verne Jay Merrell say the delay violates the rights of the "constitutional fundamentalists."

Along Highway 2 north of Spokane, Dinah Demers and Madonna Luers of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife examine a deer that was believed to have been fed on by a wolf-hybrid. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Acknowledging for the first time that they're investigating domestic terrorism, federal prosecutors want a two-month delay in seeking indictments against three men accused of the Spokane Valley bombings and bank robberies. The FBI and its scientific laboratory are swamped with not only the complexity of the Spokane case, but other high-profile investigations related to terrorism, prosecutors say.

Experts say this predator spotted in Pend Oreille County is either a wolf or a wolf-hybrid. Photo by Bill Morlin/The Spokesman-Review

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FBI agents have located but not arrested a North Idaho man whose rural cabin was searched in the investigation of the Spokane Valley bombings and bank robberies. Rick Glaese was questioned for five hours Monday by two FBI agents at a restaurant in Priest River, Idaho, the 42-year-old self-employed businessman said.

FBI agents investigating the Spokane Valley bombings and bank robberies are looking for a man who lives in a tiny shack near Sandpoint where bombs were found.

1. "Slaying people's not always wrong if it's justified by God's law," says bombing suspect Charles Barbee, photographed at a rifle range near Sandpoint in 1995. File/The Spokesman-Review 2. Berry

A federal judge may be on the verge of dismissing $160 million in civil suits filed after a deadly 1994 shooting rampage at Fairchild Air Force Base. The federal government is seeking dismissal of 12 lawsuits against the Air Force in U.S. District Court in Spokane.