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Armored Vehicles Moved Closer To Freemen Ranch

Associated Press

Federal agents moved three armored vehicles closer to the freemen ranch Sunday, within the FBI’s road blocks around the ranch where the anti-government group has been holed up for 70 days.

Reporters could get no closer than 2-1/2 miles from the entrance to the foreclosed wheat and cattle ranch, but there were no indications the FBI planned to enter the compound.

“We’ve moved them from one parking place to another,” said a government source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We haven’t given up” trying to end the standoff peacefully.