Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,talk.politics.guns
From: [h--e] at [btree.uucp] (Bob Hale)
Date: Tue, 25 May 93 17:29:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Waco Reawakened

In article <[BD 93 May 24105435] at [bd.UUCP]> bd%[f--ue--t] at [dartmouth.EDU] writes:
>In article <zndwqb#@dixie.com> [j g d] at [dixie.com] (John De Armond) writes:
>
>>Let's not forget that the government
>>fairly obviously planned to initiate civil forfeiture against the
>>compound after they killed Koresh.  Had the raid gone as planned, there
>>likely would not have been any criminal charges.  Koresh would be dead.
>
>Taking paranoia to new heights.  Do you have *any* evidence
>for this (IMHO) absurd assertion?

I happen to have one source handy.  The quotation is from June 1993
Soldier of Fortune magazine, page 51:

"One reliable federal source stated that when the ATF's pair of long-
bed pickups and cattle trailers drove up to the front door of Rancho
Apocalypse [the BD name for the Waco property], Koresh came out to
meet them, whereupon an agent began firing a suppressed MP5 SD
submachine gun at the cult leader from the passenger side of the
leading pickup, prompting return fire from the compound while Koresh
retreated inside.  Gunfire killed the ATF agent chosen to "take out"
Koresh, the source noted."

There are other sources which suggest that the ATF did have the
intention to kill Koresh and ask questions later.

Bob Hale                                      ...!ucsd!btree!hale
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