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...crucial sixth chapter of Revelation, Koresh found his timetable. The bloody raid on Feb. 28 signaled the opening of the fifth seal. The Bible instructed that they "rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters, who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed." Which merely meant that after a short time had passed, their time to die would be upon them. So Arnold and his colleague James Tabor from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte worked to sell Koresh on a less...
...months leading up to the Feb. 28 raid, federal agents had amassed plenty of justification for entering the Waco compound. A neighbor had complained of hearing machine-gun fire. A United Parcel Service deliveryman spoke of dropping off two cases of "pineapple-type" hand grenades and black gunpowder to Ranch Apocalypse. Another source talked about Branch Davidians manufacturing live grenades and trying to develop a radio-controlled aircraft to carry explosives. All told, according to documents released last week by the ATF, David Koresh spent $199,715 on weapons and ammunition in the 17 months before the Feb. 28 raid...
...affidavits also show that the ATF had compelling evidence that the Feb. 28 raid should have been called off. Testimony from an ATF agent makes plain that Koresh knew of the raid in advance -- and that top ATF officials were alerted to this before it got under way. Top officials, who steadily maintained that they had launched the raid unaware that Koresh had been forewarned, are now shifting tack. "The element of surprise does not mean they don't know you're coming. Only that they can't take control," says ATF intelligence chief David Troy. That explanation does...
...marked contrast to Attorney General Janet Reno's swift admission of FBI error in last week's raid, ATF director Stephen Higgins refuses to admit to flawed judgment. Last week members of congressional investigating committees suggested either closing down the ATF's law-enforcement operations or merging the ATF, now a branch of the Treasury Department, with the Justice Department. Agency morale is devastated. Says Troy: "We have frustrated, hurt agents, involved in collective guilt. We're dealing with a highly traumatic situation...
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