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From The SPOTLIGHT, Oct. 25, 1993

       Official Evidence of Texas Raid Doesn't Jibe With Evidence

The conclusions of an independent investigation into the events surrounding
the bloody raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco reveal numerous
discrepancies between the official version and that of witnesses, tape
recordings and photographs.

   By Ken Fawcett


 The raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco was initially
planned as a very safe operation to bolster a sliding public image and
at the same time accentuate the need for more gun control.  Scripted
responses of being "outgunned," made by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms (BATF) spokesperson Sharon Wheeler, indicate a third possible
motive, an impending request in appropriations for additional funding
for heavier and costlier tactical ordnance.

 The search and arrest warrants, as has been previously pointed
out, are fraught with errors and assumptions.  Most of the warrants
contained extremely stale, slanted and vindictive information obtained
from the embittered, banished "prophet" Marc Breault.

 Breault's affidavit, obtained from a 1992 child custody hearing,
forms most of the government's probable cause.

 Breault had not been in the group since 1989.  Breault is legally
blind, and his statements of having seen stockpiles of weapons and
instances of child abuse are in reference to "dreams or visions" he had.

SERIOUS QUESTIONS

 The fact a warrant was granted at all raises serious questions
about whether collusion exists between McLennan County officials, the
district court, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and/or the BATF.  In any
case, a "no-knock" warrant was not issued, meaning BATF had no authority
to be smashing windows or clambering on the roof.

 The raid was not designed or planned to allow for casualties
on either side.  However, the circumstances surrounding two of the
four BATF fatalities warrant deeper study with possible criminal action
against persons within the BATF, Texas Department of Public Safety and
McLennan County Sheriff's Office for charges ranging from obstruction
of justice to murder.

 The deaths of the other two asgents and most of the five injuries
resulted accidentally because a three-pront armed assault was mounted
upon what amounted to little more than a cardboard box.  It is unclear
at this stage why the BATF injuries were overstated in comparison to
those acknowledged by raid commanders Ted Royster, Phil Chojnacki, and
Chuck Sarabyn as recorded on the 911 tapes.

DISTURBING

 It's very disturbing that two of the dead agents had publicly
criticized the BATF top-level managers on national television about two
years earlier.  The agents had their identities electronically concealed,
but CBS was able to release this information now that the agents had died.

 In the weeks following the raid, BATF claimed the raid failed
because the element of surprise was lost, when, in actuality, the raid
depended upon the occupants of the complex being forewarned so as to allow
for the evacuation of children and women to bunkers or lower floors from
their normal residences on the second and third floors.

 This is confirmed in conversation between Sheriff Lt. Larry Lynch
and Waco Police dispatcher Jayni Sykora.  On tape 1, side A, Miss Sykora
says, "Sure hope those kids are out of the way."  Lynch responds, "No,
he says, 'There's kids in here...'

 "We know that.  They've got some underground stuff."

 When the undercover agent known as Robert Gonzales realized David
Koresh was not overly paranoid about the impending raid, that is, he was
not ordering the children into the bunkers, he tried to stop the assault.
Attempts included honking the horn and flashing headlights.

 Indeed, the agents who stopped sect member David Jones were able
to view his car subsequently travel to the complex, to alert his friends,
at least 45 minutes before the raid ever commenced.  Numerous experts
have testified that surprise was impossible on such an isolated structure,
and to insist the BATF was "ambushed" is an affront to intelligence of
the American people.

 Statements from sect survivors indicate underground tunnels were
collapsed by heavy rains or otherwise unusable.  Close-ups of the front of
the building reveal almost all BATF fire from the front went into the
second and third floor, principally to the right or south of the front
door.  A BATF blueprint of the building with names of sect members written
in, reflects where people were stationed during the raid.

 These positions were affirmed by tape recorded phone conversations
with sect members remanded into the jail.  Not surprisingly all but four
of the 21 persons shown stationed on the second and third floor, south
end, are among the eventual fatalities.

UNARMED WOMEN AND CHILDREN

 Examination of the vehicles that agents fired from behind reveals
few projectiles came from the building and those that did entered from
ground level trajectories.  This confirms earlier reports that only
unarmed women and children were on the upper floors.

 Why then are those agents directing their fire upstairs in all
videotape segments of the front parking lot?  Why would they not return
fire toward the emanating points of what controlled fire they were
receiving?

 BATF spokesperson Ed Hartnett says publicly on March 1 that
gunfire from the front was controlled.

 Statements by David to CNN and KRLD and even to the dispatcher
at the 911 center about some of his children being killed are supportive
of the mathematical calculations on collateral damage, given the
construction of the building and the type of ammo used by the BATF.

 BATF spokesmen are now being reprimanded for repeatedly lying
to the public.  Covering up the botched raid is not sufficient to warrant
the expenses the BATF and FBI delved out in the so-called stand-off.

 The only thing worthy of such a massive cover-up is what
came out in the end anyway, that a disproportionate number of children
and women were killed as a result of the activities of the very first day.

 The specification of aluminum powder in the BATF search warrant
is foreboding of what was pumped into the fire on April 19.

REFRIGERATOR MELTED

 The medical examiner in Fort Worth, Dr. Rodney Crowe, stated in
a taped interview July 30 that the walk-in refrigerator contained within
the above-ground concrete blockhouse (bunker) was melted.  FBI agent
Bob Ricks said he believes many of the women and children tried to
"bunker down" inside this refrigerator.

 A fire, without some kind of metal powder accelerant, would be
incapable of melting a stainless steel refrigerator contained in a
concrete enclosure.

 Widely distributed video footage depicting three agents smashing
into a rooftop window and then appearing to engage in a gunfight in the
room was a staged event "for the camera."  This is acknowledged by
Sheriff Jack Harwell in a taped telephone call to David Koresh.  During
this call Harwell asks Koresh his "position."

 The response is "What? They killed a baby girl. There's crippled.
There's dying."

 BATF as of this writing freely admits that none of the agents
shown on the tape died in the raid, and all are back at work.  What was
the justification for lying in the press briefings about the circumstances
of the deaths of the agents.

CONSTERNATION

 David Koresh listened intently to those conferences, and the
consternation he suffered over being publicly accused of killing agents,
one of whom was injured and helped by the Davidians, is evident in his
statement to Sheriff Harwell, "We let 'em come in and get one of the guys.
They said they didn't.  That's a lie.  That, there was--a couple of, uh,
two or three guys upstairs, out--"

 Harwell interrupts that they (BATF) have changed that story, it
was for the camera, whereupon Koresh states, "Well, it's all over the
world."

 The latest version (now changed three times) of how and where
the BATF agents died is that two died on the ground, one on the roof
and one in the chapel.

 We have a videotape clip of an agent turning to his left and
firing into the chapel from under an aluminum ladder.  He then calls to
the cameraman to summon an ambulance.  Right after this segment on the
tape another agent starts shouting instructions and asks who is on
the roof.

 Three to four shots are fired, and a second agent shouts "No,
Dino, no."

 An agent in the distance is heard to query, "Hey...Hey, is he
aiming back over this way?"

ACCOLADES TO POLICE

 With specific reference to the 911 tapes, accolades are due to
the Waco, Texas Police Department for preserving those tapes in the face
of incredible odds.  Without the 911 tapes most of this investigation
would have been limited to the chopped-up video of the raid, the
statements from survivors and the recorded phone call between Harwell
and Koresh.

 From these tapes it is evident that the government retained at
least one operative inside the complex throughout the botched raid.  The
person is identified only as "Fred" on the tape.

 Fred says they are "faking gunfire with these people" after
getting Miss Sykora's attention by addressing her as Ron.  He wants
media representatives to call him at Martin's phone number.  Then he
whispers into the phone heavily, "hang up the phone...Wheeler, hang up
the phone."

 We learn on tape 6 that BATF agents believe all calls out of
the complex had been diverted to the undercover house across the street.

 An agent named Dino is somewhat disturbed when Lynch tells him
he's not across the street, but rather "downtown Waco, Texas" and that
the call is being taped.  BATF had forgotten to have Davidian Wayne
Martin's business line diverted.

RIGOR MORTIS

 Obviously the video tape and photos of agents being dragged
out of the complex and carried on the news truck raise still more
questions.  Two of the agents exhibit advanced symptoms of rigor
mortis.  And from the time Martin first calls 911 to ask for the firing
to stop until the time BATF claims to have removed its last injured
agent from the scene, three full hours have elapsed.

 It is extremely clear from the tapes that either the BATF's
communications are non-existent and/or the BATF forces view this as
a military assault and will settle for nothing less than total victory.
When Martin tells Lynch he has to pass the word on the cease fire,
he's actually referring to passing the word out to the BATF forces.

 Corroborating evidence is seen on the videotape of the raid.

 Agents are shown here shielding the TV camera from viewing a
corpse with a plastic bag over the head and torso.  Though this
location is behind an outhouse and is isolated from the main forces,
none of the three agents is wearing a radio.

 Also, the balding agent who ultimately ends up on the news
vehicle is photographed being carried from the back of the AMT ambulance
in the complex driveway, in a sleeping bag, toward the news truck.  Why?

VERY UPSET

 Though the TV newsman who helped evacuate the agents on the day
of the raid seemed very upset when he gave his initial reports of the
incident on February 28, he has since developed a friendly rapport
with the Davidian survivors, and even attended one of their wedding
ceremonies as a guest.

 If the incident occured as he, "the only reporter on the scene,"
originally reported, that is, the "agents were immediately pinned down
by gunfire coming through the walls," and subsequently helped carry
out some of the reported 20 fallen agents, I doubt he would be able to
befriend the perpetrators of such heinous carnage so soon after the
crime.

 Though little attention has been directed at the methods employed
by federal agents conducting the raid, the public must ask if we as a
democratic society are prepared for armed assaults such as this, where
agents are seen throwing hand grenades and concussive devices blindly
into windows and firing MP5 submachine guns into and through the walls
of what is legally described on the McLennan County tax rolls as a church.

 Further, if survivors' accounts that helicopters fired
indiscriminately through the roof are true, then truly little is left of
our precious right to feel secure in our own persons and properties
against unreasonable searches and seizures.

 The testimony of the attorneys who saw first hand the bullet-
riddled ceilings will affirm that, yes, the helicopters took their toll.

BATF SPOKESPERSONS LIED

 BATF spokespersons originally maintained no fully automatic
weaponry was used in the raid, but in checking the inventory list filed
by the government, several MP5 Heckler-Koch full-auto submachine guns
were used by the BATF and turned in for test firing at the forensic lab.

 It has now been learned the Davidians did not return the fire
of the BATF for several minutes, if at all.

 Most of the rifles in the church were boxed for the coming gun
show in Austin or had been removed from the scene prior to the raid by
Paul Fetta earlier that day.

 If this is true, how did the Davidians fight back?  The answer,
judging from examination of the outbuildings, trees, poles and vehicles,
is they didn't.  I could find no evidence of a shoot-out.

GENT, SCHROEDER DEATHS

 The events surrounding the deaths of Peter Gent and Michael
Schroeder deserve to be scrutinized separately from the raid, because
evidence suggests both men were killed well after the initial hostilities
had subsided, and that neither man posed a threat to law enforcement.

 Schroeder, 28, was killed walking home from work on a neighboring
ranch.  He was shot seven times, four in the back.

 Gent, 23, was climbing out of the water tower he'd been working
in that morning.  BATF claims he was shot by a sniper on the ground.
The Davidians believe he was shot from a helicopter.

 In any event, the families surely will file civil suits which
hopefully will allow greater discussion in those cases.

POORLY PLANNED

 The conclusion here is, the raid was poorly planned, would never
have worked under even ideal conditions.  Conditions were less than ideal
(rainy, cold, muddy, slippery, poor visibility) for this type of action.
There was a complete breakdown in communications of prisoners and
casualties.  In short the people inside the complex were systematically
murdered.  Why?

 There are other issues that need to be resolved.

 Why were these people assassinated?  Did undercover agents who
remained in or penetrated the complex on February 28 systematically
terminate selected adults inside the complex?  Was such a costly endeavor
in terms of both human life and dollars really carried out merely to
search for suspected illegal weapons?

 In a building this size and given the number of occupants therein,
is it prudent or even sane to try an individual in court on an illegal
weapons charge?  All of these people were individuals.  They were free
to come and go as they pleased, many were in California or other parts
of the country at the time of the raid.  Some had been in the sect only
a short while.  A few were only visiting.

 Is it fair that our courts seem bent upon heaping whatever
unlawful actions residents of Mount Carmel may or may not have committed
onto the back of David Koresh?  What about the lawfulness of prosecuting
a group as though they are part of some individual organism like insects
or ants?  Is this not guilt by association?

MOST IMPORTANT

 But the most important question of all is, "Why did representatives
of the federal government admittedly lie to the press and the American
people throughout the tragedy?  What lies will be told by the government
as the impending trials commence?  Will they send us a signal or message
to let the press and the public know that the lies and propaganda have
stopped and hence forth issue only the truth?"

 Because of these unanswered questions, as well as others, we
the people must demand an independent investigation team be appointed,
with subpoena powers and power to grant limited immunity as prescribed
under the law.  The full extent of the Waco debacle and coverup must be
exposed, or there can be no guarantee against these atrocities occuring
again in the future.

End of Article
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   Waco Independent Review
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 For a startling videotape revealing much of what is outlined
 in this article, see Waco, The Big Lie, by Linda Thompson.
 Available from:
   Liberty Library
   300 Independence Ave. SE
   Washington, D.C. 20003

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