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...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...
...days, until last Monday morning, members of our Waco coverage team waited for the standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians to resolve itself. They interviewed federal agents, local residents and family members in an often frustrating attempt to sense what was going on within the compound and what the FBI intended to do. Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally...
...photographers were successful in their endeavors as well. At 6 Monday morning, photographer Shelly Katz called SABA photographer Greg Smith at home in Houston, asking him to return to Waco at once. Because the media were kept three miles from the scene, Smith found himself covering a story he could barely see with high-powered telephoto lenses. Katz, who had put 6,500 miles on his Jeep Cherokee as he roared about questioning residents and checking out the countryside, says he had never covered a story "so intense and frustrating." Nothing, however, could prepare the photographers for what they...
...tactic common to cult leaders, Koresh made food a tool for ensuring obedience. The compound diet was often insufficient, varying according to the leader's whim. Sometimes dinner was stew or chicken; at other times it might be nothing but popcorn. On their infrequent trips to Waco, cultists could be seen wolfing down packaged cheese in convenience stores. Household and dietary rules at the compound were as changeable as the theology. Koresh established strict bans on sugar and ice cream, then reversed them without explanation. He told his disciples they could buy chicken hot dogs, but exploded in anger when...
...stop My will? . . . My seven thunders are to be revealed . . . Do you want me to laugh at your pending torments? Do you want Me to pull the heavens back and show you My anger?! . . . Fear Me, for I have you in My snare . . . I forewarn you, the Lake Waco area of Old Mount Carmel will be terribly shaken. The waters of the lake will be emptied through the broken...