Word: koresh
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However American juries may feel about some of the curious characters on the fringes of American life, they tend to reserve their real suspicion for the forces of law and order. That lesson was delivered again last Saturday in San Antonio, Texas, as 11 followers of cult leader David Koresh were acquitted of charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of four federal agents a year ago this week. Jubilant defense attorneys slapped each other on the back. Did it not matter that five defendants faced prison terms as long as 10 years for manslaughter? Said...
...those who were residents of Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across...
Spoon, like many of his neighbors, has heard rumors that Davidian cultists eventually hope to build a new worship center at the apocalyptic site, and he is concerned that some of Koresh's followers could come back. Eleven cult survivors go on trial this week in San Antonio for conspiracy in the murder of the four ATF agents who died in the February raid, and it is anybody's guess whether some of them will be acquitted...
...before the trial begins, tourists are making the curious trek to Waco, as they have steadily since the nightmarish days. They don't see much out on EE Road: piles of broken beams and concrete, the husks of two old cars and a trailer, and the Silver Streak Express -- Koresh's bus, which somehow survived the flames and which security guards use as a warming hut -- are about all that remains of the compound. A broken high chair and rusted toys lying in the gray earth provide reminders of the young dead...
...Initially the FBI tried to use conciliatory negotiations," Stone said. "But after Koresh did not live up to some of his promises, the tactical people started applying a lot of pressure...