Federal authorities investigating the deadly sabotage derailment of an Amtrak train in Arizona said today that they had no suspects or motive, but that a note found at the scene began with a poem about the women who died in the fire that ended the siege of the Branch Davidian sect's compound near Waco, Tex.
As Federal investigators scoured the remote desert site where several passenger cars of Amtrak's Sunset Limited tumbled off a Southern Pacific trestle early Monday, killing a crewman and injuring dozens of people, specialists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington began studying the note for clues.
The investigation has been assigned to the F.B.I.'s national security division, which handles terrorism cases, rather than the criminal division. Officials said that was because the investigation had the potential to become a terrorism case, and not because the F.B.I. had already determined a motive for the attack or that terrorists were involved.
At a news conference near the crash site in the Arizona desert, United States Attorney Janet Napolitano would not predict how long the investigation might take or where it might lead. "We are going to pursue every bit of evidence, every lead, very thoughtfully, without any preconception about what may be correct and what may not be correct," she said. "It may take a day, it may take a week, it may take a month."
