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...standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents, FBI agents, SWAT teams, armored personnel carriers...
...hang out a banner proclaiming their new "Serenissima Repubblica," as the old Venetian republic was called, before police forces scaled the 350-foot building and hauled the men away. Two other separatists were arrested in a mock armored car positioned in the square. No one was injured in the raid. The Northern League, a separatist group which has declared the creation of an independent northern republic, denied all responsibility for the siege...
...assault, the army managed to smuggle at least 11 listening devices into the residence. Some were tiny, matchstick-size two-way microphones that allowed intelligence officers to communicate with the military and police commanders being held inside. The gizmos were carried into the building four days before the raid by intelligence agents posing as government doctors there to check on the hostages' health. The devices were supplied by the cia, according to the military official, and were concealed in personal items, like books, guitars and thermos bottles, that were supposedly sent in by families. Hostages signaled by opening curtains when...
...heavy, metal-reinforced door leading to the balcony outside the master bedroom. The Peruvians whispered their warnings to the others, including Bolivian Ambassador Jorge Gumucio Granier. The news startled Gumucio, who instantly remembered that the guerrillas had practiced more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades into the rooms the hostages occupied. Gumucio did not remember later how many minutes he waited for the attack to begin, but he said, "To me it was an eternity." Juan Julio Wicht, a Jesuit priest who had stayed on in the residence despite an offer of freedom...
...showers, had undercut the morale of rebels and prisoners alike. But it turned out much worse for the rebels, who had become dispirited and inattentive. "This will never end," one of them complained to a hostage the day before the rescue. "They were most ready for a raid after midnight or at 6 in the morning," says Gumucio. "They never expected something in broad daylight...