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...have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could be sending the French a stern warning after a reported bombing attack this weekend on Pale, in which a close relative of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was supposedly targeted and killed. Finally, antinuclear groups have been angry because of President Jacques Chirac's recent...
...raid commanders did not even arrange to have the telephone number for the compound on the day of the raid," the report says. In the midst of the gun battle, an agent did find the number-jotted on a calendar in the undercover house...
...Eleven days before the Feb. 28 raid, ATF ended surveillance of the compound. Several of the bureau's tactical planners said they didn't learn of this gap until members of the Treasury review team told them about...
...Raid planners believed only 75 people lived at the compound. In fact, 125 were present...
...raid planners expected armed resistance from only male Branch Davidians, and possibly one woman, a former police officer. The review states, "They [the agents] studiously ignored or discounted evidence that other women might also be prepared for armed resistance...