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...women and children clustered in the center of the second floor, from which there was no exit. Then suddenly the firing stopped, and a white flag emerged from the front door. "Outstanding!" thought the leader of the Hostage Rescue Team. "It's gonna work." Koresh's chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, retrieved the telephone, and the agents felt a moment of hope. But the firing began again. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth...
...performance. "There were law-abiding, God-fearing people in there," said Koresh's mother Bonnie Haldeman. "They didn't hurt anybody." The most damaging blasts came from those who had made it out of the compound. Survivors spoke out, either on their own or through DeGuerin and Schneider's lawyer Jack Zimmerman, to challenge the official version of what happened. "There was never any suicide plan," protested Renos Avraam, a 28-year-old London native who had lived in the compound for more than a year, "and never any order to destroy the compound. We intended to come...
...STEVE SCHNEIDER WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT, IF NOT TO HIMSELF, THEN to some of the people who wanted...
...made his initial public appearance in the unfolding Waco tragedy as a substitute for a wounded David Koresh, grown weak after hours of haranguing FBI hostage negotiators. The bureau told the press that like his boss, Schneider enjoyed explicating Scripture, and that he seemed moody. But his background and character were of considerably more interest than they let on at the time...
Alas, Koresh took four days to finish 30 handwritten pages about the first seal, and they still await editing by his top lieutenant, Steve Schneider. So, FBI men sourly note, a surrender may be months off, even if Koresh keeps his word -- and he has reneged on three previous promises to give up. "No one at our place is holding his breath," says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill...