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...Dalrymple tells it, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service agents stormed into the house just after 5 a.m., he grabbed Elian and fled to a bedroom, locking the door and then trying to duck into a closet. But the closet was crammed too full of clothes, and they could not close the folding doors. "Help me!" Elian cried. "Help...
...agents, armed with 9-mm MP5 submachine guns, looked first for Elian's cousin Marisleysis, assuming she would be the one to lead them to Elian. "Where the f------- is the damn boy?" Marisleysis says they shouted at her. She begged them to hold off, she says. "I will give you the boy; just put the guns down!" As they raced through the rest of the house, the agents knocked over a statue of the Virgin Mary and a huge picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the living room. Finally, they kicked their way into the bedroom, breaking...
They found Dalrymple and Elian clinging to each other. "No, no no!" Elian screamed. They gave him to Betty Mills, an eight-year INS veteran who spoke to Elian in Spanish as she covered him with a blanket and raced out to a waiting white minivan. As the pepper spray wafted outside the house, bystanders could hear the agents shouting the code meaning that they had Elian in their possession: "Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!" Mills told Elian that it was O.K., that he was going to see his "papa" and take his first ever airplane ride--not, she kept promising...
Lazaro Gonzalez ran into the front yard and collapsed. Dalrymple screamed, "Bastards!" as he, too, ran to the front yard and hurled plastic milk crates at the agents. "It was a horror show," he says. As the motorcade drove off, agent Jim Goldman called INS headquarters to report that Elian was scared and shaken, but safe. Goldman said he was stroking Elian's back, while Mills told him of his coming reunion with Papa. "This is one tough little kid," Goldman marveled. "I was shaking...
...Elian was crying again as the U.S. Marshals plane took off from Homestead Air Force Base. Hoping to ease his fear, INS officials handed Elian a toy plane and explained that they were flying to Washington; agents showed him a map of the plane's route, then gave him a watch and showed him how much time would pass before he would see his father. They raised the window shades and showed him the dawn sky. "He became completely enthralled in the pretty colors," said an INS official. Elian spent most of the flight sitting in Mills...