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	Branch Davidian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are best known for the 1993 siege of their Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, by the BATF and the FBI, which resulted in the deaths of eighty-two of the church's members, including head figure David Koresh.
		The group established a settlement outside of Waco, Texas, on the property previously occupied by the Davidian group.
		In 1977, Benjamin Roden's wife Lois claimed to have a message of her own, one element of which was that the Holy Spirit is feminine in gender, causing much controversy in the group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Branch_Davidian (1822 words)

	Waco Siege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The FBI took command of the scene soon after the initial raid, placing FBI SAC of San Antonio Jeff Jamar in charge of the siege, and the tactical team was headed by Richard Rogers, whose actions at the Ruby Ridge incident had been criticized earlier.
		Timothy McVeigh cited the Waco siege as a primary motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing and was known to be a fan of both the Linda Thompson and Ron Cole videos.
		Waco: The Rules of Engagement was nominated for a 1997 Academy Award for best documentary and was followed by another film: Waco: A New Revelation [14].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waco_Siege (5104 words)

	From Waco to Belgrade: Wesley Clark and America's "Army of the Future"
		Waco: One of the first acts of post-raid Waco was cutting off the complex's phone system to anyone but the FBI and disabling its short wave radio system.
		Waco: No ambulance was on call during the initial raid in spite of the fact that over 100 armed agents were involved and the complex housed numerous women and children as well as men who were thought to be armed.
		Waco: Local television news media were informed of the Mt. Carmel raid the day before and by showing up at the scene (one news van got lost and reportedly asked neighbors where the raid was), removed the surprise element and completely undermined the raid.
	www.brasscheck.com /yugoslavia/clarkatwaco.html (3291 words)

	CESNUR - Updates on Waco: June 20, 2000
		WACO – The first witness in the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Branch Davidian survivors and family members testified today that she was unaware of any plans by sect members to ambush federal agents as they tried to serve a search warrant Feb. 28, 1993.
		The Oklahoma City bombing was in revenge for the Waco siege, according to the principal bomber.
		WACO, Texas, June 20 (Reuters) - The faces of 13 children who died in the fiery end of the Branch Davidian siege dominated the opening on Tuesday of a trial that pits sect survivors against the U.S. government over who is to blame for the 1993 conflagration that killed about 80 Davidians.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/waco83.htm (4218 words)

	Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Los Angeles Times
		As congressional hearings on the fatal siege moved into their second day, Clinton acknowledged that the final word is not yet in on federal agents' actions in the 1993 raid on the cultists' compound near Waco, Tex., and the 51-day siege that followed.
		These include the Waco raid, a recent picnic in Tennessee with allegedly racist overtones that was attended by some federal agents and accusations of document tampering in an investigation of an FBI gun battle with a white separatist at Ruby Ridge, Ida.
		Critics of the Branch Davidian siege, which ended with the deaths of more than 80 sect members and four law enforcement officers, have argued that Koresh did not deserve his fate, however misguided or even criminal his actions.
	www.waco93.com /latimes7_21_95_2.htm (675 words)

	frontline: waco - the inside story: Chronology \| PBS
		Note: This chronology was published in 1995 with the initial broadcast of "Waco: the Inside Story." In August, 1999, documents were uncovered which indicated that during the raid on the Branch Davidian compound, the FBI used a limited number of flammable tear gas canisters.
		This revelation contradicted assertions of the FBI and the Department of Justice that the government had done nothing that could have contributed to the start or spread of the fire.
		Larry POTTS at FBI headquarters in Washington and JAMAR in Waco are in command.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/timeline.html (1170 words)

	"Former Davidian gives his account of Waco siege" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A BRITISH company is to stage a re-enactment of the final day of the Waco siege, with Royal Navy helicopter pilots being given the key role in unravelling the mysteries of how up to 80 people died.
		Danforth was appointed Waco special counsel last fall by Attorney General Janet Reno after she acknowledged that she had misled Congress about whether the FBI had used potentially incendiary devices in the siege.
		The Waco judge issued a letter to the media Tuesday stating that the test would also be secret and that no media or public observers would be allowed.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/lovelock.htm (12343 words)

	News from Waco - articals and stories
		Former Waco federal prosecutor Bill Johnston, who helped expose a six-year cover-up of government actions in the Branch Davidian siege, was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of obstructing the special counsel's investigation that he helped set in motion.
		Two attorneys for the survivors of the Branch Davidian siege and their relatives say they plan to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the sect members and not the government were responsible for the 1993 tragedy.
		May 14, 2000 - WACO, Texas - A lawyer representing surviving Branch Davidians in a wrongful-death lawsuit says the death of an infrared expert who contended that shots were fired by the government during the Waco siege is a major setback in the case.
	www.waco-anewrevelation.com /news-events.html (12166 words)

	COURTTV.COM - Waco Texas, Oklahoma City - Two Tragedies, One Anniversary
		The 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas, began on Feb. 28, when federal agents on the trail of illegal weapons manufacture tried to raid the compound of the Branch Davidian religious sect.
		While the government claimed sect members attacked first and started the fire, survivors and victims' relatives say the members were attacked unprovoked, that they never fired at police, and that it was the government's tear gas that caused the deadly inferno.
		McVeigh, who strongly believed the government wrongly raided the Davidian compound and covered up some of their actions, chose Waco's two-year anniversary to carry out his plan — detonating a truck bomb weighing 4,800 pounds directly outside the Alfred P. Murrah building shortly after the business day began.
	www.courttv.com /news/waco_okc (296 words)

	Salon News \| The truth about Waco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Reports on Wednesday revealed the government also used incendiary flares during the Waco siege similar to those used to burn down the hideout of white supremacist Robert Mathews.
		One irony of the Waco disaster is that right-wing extremists and racists look to Mount Carmel as a beacon; if they realized that so many of us were fl, Asian and Latino, and that we despised their hateful politics and anger, they would probably feel bitterly betrayed.
		I worked as a bartender in Waco for a time and I doubt a single customer would tell you that I stood out in any way other than my ability to mix a mean margarita.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/09/waco/index.html (1053 words)

	Bad Subjects: The Tenth Anniversary of the Siege at Waco and April 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Three months prior to the siege at Waco, in January 1993, the United States had agreed at the Chemical Weapons Convention in Paris not to use CS gas during wartime.
		The siege and prolonged assault of its members was publicly framed from coast to coast with several broad prejudicial discourses.
		The tenth anniversary of the siege of the Branch Davidians occurs in the context of a brutal war and a sinister series of compromises on civil liberties.
	bad.eserver.org /issues/2004/67/prelinger_waco.html (2281 words)

	Democrats Urge Outside Look At Waco Siege
		The two Democrats are part of a growing bipartisan chorus in Congress for an independent probe of the April 19, 1993, siege at the Waco compound, which ended with a fire that killed 86 persons, including 24 children.
		Although it happened six years ago, the Waco incident became the hottest news story in Washington last week when the FBI admitted it had used incendiary devices on the day of the fire.
		Sage, who was the chief negotiator at the Waco siege, strongly denied the FBI tried to cover up the fact that it used flammatory devices in the Texas raid.
	www.mcsm.org /waco12.html (885 words)

	Army reportedly declined to review FBI approach to Waco siege - August 31, 1999
		WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, August 31) -- Just days before the fiery end to the Waco standoff, top Army Special Forces officials were asked to offer their views of an FBI assault plan for the Branch Davidian compound but refused to do so, CNN has learned.
		The meeting, held on April 14, 1993 at FBI headquarters, was called at the request of the Justice Department and attended by Attorney General Janet Reno and top FBI officials.
		The siege ended on April 19, 1993, when the compound was engulfed in flames, killing about 80 people, including 21 children.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/31/fbi.waco (768 words)

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		The Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex. was engulfed in flames on April 20, 1993.
		A second FBI videotape confirmed that potentially incendiary tear gas cartridges were used during the early stages of the 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound.
		A recorded conversation between two FBI agents during the final 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound revealed a hurried and seemingly casual decision to use potentially incendiary military tear gas cartridges in an attempt to penetrate an underground shelter near the compound.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/waco/keystories.htm (801 words)

	Waco siege to be re-enacted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		DALLAS — The government's credibility will be put to the test this weekend when critical portions of the 1993 assault at Waco are re-enacted at a military base with tanks, a helicopter and camouflaged gunmen.
		Infrared experts hired by the plaintiffs, as well as one retained by a House committee, contend the flashes represent gunfire from government positions and a smattering of return fire from the Davidians.
		FBI officials are adamant that the Davidians died by their own hands and have suggested that the flashes came from sunlight glinting off pools of water, metal or other debris on the ground.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/18awaco.html (715 words)

	Waco Watch
		In the 1993 siege of David Koresh's Mount Carmel commune in Waco, Texas, four law-enforcement officers were killed and nearly 90 civilians – men, women and children – were massacred by being shot and/or burned alive.
		Based on the fact that military equipment from Fort Hood was used in the siege and that training was provided there, say critics, it is clear the commanding officer of the 1st Cavalry had direct knowledge of the attack and, more likely than not, was involved in the tactical planning.
		The magnitude of government actions at WACO involves whether it has the right to inflict two months of torment on a community of men, women and children.
	www.dojgov.net /Waco01.htm (780 words)

	Branch Davidians, Waco, and the FBI - religious cults and sects
		The siege sparked years of Congressional inquiries and criminal trials, as well as a probe started last year by a special investigator named by the US Justice Department.
		During the siege, Koresh sent Fagan out of the compound on March 23rd with the mission to present the Message of the Seven Seals to the world through the media.
		For seven years, he has studied the siege and the theology of David Koresh, the sect leader who was killed in the fire along with 74 followers.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /b10.html (3244 words)

	Counsel's input sought in Waco siege
		She declined to comment on Waco because of her role in approving the FBI's tear gas plan.
		Danforth's assertion that the FBI's commanders in Waco did not violate Washington-approved operation plans by sending tanks in to dismantle the building on the last day of the siege.
		Doyle, who survived the fire that consumed the compound at the end of the siege and who is a plaintiff in the suit.
	www.rickross.com /reference/waco/waco267.html (1069 words)

	Remembering Waco, 12 Years Later
		This included such psy-war tactics as sleep deprivation of the inhabitants of the community by means of all-night broadcasts of recordings of the screams of rabbits being slaughtered.
		At the end of the murderous, unconstitutional and illegal siege, 82 Branch Davidians were killed.
		In 2000, Alex Jones spearheaded the volunteer effort to rebuild the church for the Branch Davidian Survivors of the Waco Siege of 1993.
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/remembering_waco.htm (254 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Clark tanks used in Waco siege
		For example, there is the 1993 siege of David Koresh's Mount Carmel commune in Waco, Texas, where four law-enforcement officers were killed and nearly 90 civilians – men, women and children – massacred by being shot and/or burned alive.
		Although Clark has never publicly discussed his role in the attack on the Branch Davidians and did not respond to Insight's requests for an interview to discuss his role at Waco, there are indisputable facts that confirm he had knowledge of the grim plans to bring the standoff to an end.
		Everything that happened at Waco, from the beginning, the U.S. military was involved – including the strategic and tactical planning that went on from Feb. 29 to April 19.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35094 (1354 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Senators to scrutinize Waco siege evidence?
		Michael McNulty, producer of "The F.L.I.R. Project," a video claiming the FBI fired at fleeing Branch Davidians during the government's final assault April 19, 1993, said he has sent the committee evidence that contradicts John Danforth's official conclusion that agents did not fire their weapons.
		However, McNulty – who has made two other videos critical of the government's claims about Waco – has said Danforth's re-creation of those flashes was flawed, mostly because the wrong weapon was used during reenactment tests, as WorldNetDaily reported May 12.
		"That so-called recreation was meant to be an end-all, be-all answer to the 'darkest' Waco question – did the FBI fire upon the men, women and children trying to escape the burning building?" McNulty wrote in his letter.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23823 (1126 words)

	Expert Concludes FBI Fired Shots During Waco Siege
		An expert retained by the House Government Reform Committee said yesterday that he believes an FBI agent fired shots during the bureau's 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., a view that is at odds with the FBI's consistent position that none of its agents fired at any time.
		Carlos Ghigliotti, an expert in thermal imaging and videotape analysis who has done work for the FBI, said he has spent hundreds of hours reviewing various tapes of the siege, including a newly released FBI audio recording that was part of a videotape turned over to Congress recently in response to a subpoena.
		Danforth, appointed Waco special counsel last month by Attorney General Janet Reno, was directed to answer a number of key questions, including whether FBI agents fired their weapons.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/06/064r-100699-idx.html (832 words)

	Waco aka Waco Davidians, Branch Davidians, David Koresh
		The raid, the siege and the aftermath of Waco
		Former U.S. attorney is accused of obstructing Waco investigation
		Waco inquiry appears to be focusing on top official on scene
	www.rickross.com /groups/waco.html (1439 words)

	CNN - FBI statement on Waco siege raises questions - August 26, 1999
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Janet Reno is expected to face questions about the FBI's handling of the ill-fated Waco siege at her weekly press conference, scheduled for Thursday morning.
		The FBI acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that potentially flammable devices may have been fired in the vicinity of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, on the day in 1993 when more than 80 members of the religious sect perished in a fire.
		Still, Wednesday's admission was an about-face that could prove embarrassing to top federal law enforcement officials, who have long been criticized for their handling of the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound which came to a fiery end on April 19, 1993.
	www.cnn.com /US/9908/26/fbi.waco.01/index.html (832 words)

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