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...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...
...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...
...Justice Department report has concluded that Janet Reno exhausted all "reasonable alternatives" before approving an assault on David Koresh's Waco compound last spring, and cleared the Attorney General of having made any mistakes. It does conclude, though, that there was bitter wrangling within the fbi about what tactics to use during the 51-day crisis, and that Reno's claim of child abuse during the standoff was unsupported by fact...
...Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" isa show inspired by junior-high cruelty, toilethumor and childish revenge fantasies. Cute birdsare smashed with hammers, the Roman god of fecesmakes an appearance, and David Koresh is pureed bya chainsaw. Only a select bunch have stomachssolid enough to sit through the whole show...