Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.activism,alt.rush-limbaugh,misc.legal
From: [g--kh--n] at [apollo.hp.com] (Red Herring)
Subject: Re: WACO burning
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 16:41:55 GMT

In article <[C 5 u 9 Ev 4 tA] at [noose.ecn.purdue.edu]> [g--rr--d] at [dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu] (David Garrod) writes:
>
>It is interesting, sometimes, to listen to U.S. news as seen through
>the eyes of another country.......
>
>B.B.C. world news service, on short-wave, originating out of London,
>reports that a survivor of the Waco massacre states that a tank, when
>making a hole in the wall of the building, knocked over a kerosene
>lamp and that is how the fire started.  Attempts were made by the
>people inside to put out the fire, but it spread too quickly.

    Last night, Koresh's attorney appeared on Larry King's Live (CNN).
    Among other questions, he was asked to describe the interior
    of the house (he visited the place on 04/14).  Here's what he said:

    It was dark inside: the windows were shattered during the first
    attack and barricaded with bales of hay to keep the place
    worm as well as to shield from the bullets.

    The electricity was shut off by the goverment agents, so
    the place was lit by kerosene lamps.

...

    Also was mentioned that a tank drove through a wall right in the 
    living room and started tear-gassing people in the house.
    The suvivors claimed BD's had no plans to commit suecide.

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