The laptop computer he had been carrying was confiscated for forensic analysis, but Siddique was allowed to return home before being arrested in the dawnraid on his home just five days later.
When both the justices and the fired marshals defied him by holing up in the courthouse in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee capital, in June 1997, Mr Byrd's handpicked guards made a pre-dawn raid to evict them.