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Private report Quote:
| Rumored to be stockpiled inside was an arsenal of explosives and weapons, some of which reportedly had been illegally converted to rapid-fire automatic. |
A RUMOR justifies 76 armed agents and helocopters
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| Then that February 28th morning, a reporter asked for directions from a person who was connected to the Davidians, and that person alerted Koresh. |
A reporter knows there is going to be an ATF raid and blows their cover. This is why I feel that the ATF must have had some kind of agenda other than protecting the good citizens of Texas from David Koresh. Why unless you were filming an episode of "COPS" would you alert people outside your agency of a paramilitary bust? :confused:
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| Everyone was aware of the potential risk. Koresh's paranoia about the government as the agent of Satan didn't help matters, because the ATF's advance only proved the truth of his prophecies: they would be attacked by the Babylonians. |
A releligious nut case.
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| Even so, no one anticipated what actually happened. |
They should have. They had agents inside. Any psych 101 student could tell you the potential for bad things to happen.
Now with an embarrasing hostage situation being publicly televised what do the
professional negotiators do? Get caught in a fatal deception with a mentaly imbalanced perp. They have now lost any hope of talking down the situation and the standoff begins.
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| over a local radio station, in the hope Koresh was listening, to let him know there would be no new attacks. Yet around 5:00 when three cultists walking outside the compound to return there from work encountered ATF agents, the shooting resumed. Agents killed one and captured one of the trio, while one got away, and officials then broadcast a request to Koresh to give up without a fight. |