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Article: New revelations in Waco incident.(attack on Branch Davidian compound)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- September 8, 1999
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Heretofore both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have denied using incendiary devices in their April 19, 1993, attack that ended a 51-day siege of Mt. Carmel near Waco, Texas--the compound of a millennialist religious group known as the Branch Davidians. The group had been charged with illegal arms activity (it had also been accused of child abuse, but that charge was never proved). Now a former senior FBI official has revealed that the FBI did fire heat-generating tear gas canisters in the attack. His disclosure is significant, since the Davidian compound burned to the ground that day, in a blaze that killed ...