THE WEEK: OCTOBER 8-14

OCTOBER 8-14

NATION

SABOTAGE

Amtrak's Sunset Limited was en route from Miami to Los Angeles with 268 people aboard when it derailed in the middle of the night on a remote stretch of track in Arizona. The casualties: one crew member dead, a hundred people injured. Evidence quickly led investigators to pronounce the crash no accident: two rails were found to have been deliberately uncoupled; and a message was found at the crash site from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo--a previously unknown group--that assailed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the agencies' roles in the...

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