-Caveat Lector-
Still say Koresh and his Branch DavIDIOTS deserved their fate...eh, it's not
like we lost the cure for cancer, just some fringe scumbags...
Report counters U.S. stand on Waco
August 24, 1999 6:53 p.m. CDT
DALLAS (AP) -- Contradicting years of denial from the U.S. government, a
former FBI official said in today's Dallas Morning News that agents fired two
pyrotechnic tear gas grenades into the Branch Davidian compound the day it
erupted in a deadly inferno.
However, Danny Coulson said the devices were fired hours before the blaze
began on April 19, 1993, and were not to blame for the fire that consumed the
compound with David Koresh and more than 80 followers inside.
``The fire did not start there. That's a lot of nothing,'' he said in today's
Dallas Morning News.
The issue of whether the FBI used pyrotechnic devices is a major focus of an
ongoing inquiry by the Texas Rangers and a key allegation in a pending
federal wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the government by surviving
Davidians and families of those who died.
The federal government consistently has disputed accusations that the FBI
started the fire. Independent investigators concluded the fire began
simultaneously in three separate places.
FBI bugs recorded Davidians discussing spreading fuel and planning a fire
hours before the compound burned. Arson investigators also found evidence
that gasoline, charcoal lighter fluid and camp stove fuel had been poured
inside the compound.
Government officials have maintained the FBI used only nonflammable devices
to get tear gas into the compound because of fears that pyrotechnic grenades
might spark a fire in the wooden structure.
The statement by Coulson, founding commander of the FBI's hostage rescue team
and a deputy assistant FBI director at the time of the Waco incident, marks
the first time any government official has publicly contradicted those
claims, the News reported.
On Monday, a spokesman with the U.S. Justice Department again denied that any
pyrotechnic devices were used.
``We are aware of no evidence to support the notion that any pyrotechnic
devices were used by the federal government on April 19,'' Justice Department
spokesman Myron Marlin told the newspaper. ``We've said that all along.''
Copyright 1999 The Associated Press
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