Flashes Not Gunfire, Waco Judge Says NewsMax.com Monday, April 24, 2000 Those suspicious glints that showed up on the infrared videotape taken at Waco were not gunfire, a preliminary review shows according to U.S. District Court Judge Walter Smith. Speaking at a pretrial hearing yesterday, Smith said that experts retained by the court had made an initial determination that the review of the infrared videotape caught about 57 ``thermal events,'' - flashes of light that signify heat. There ``were no muzzle blasts either from Branch Davidians or government agents,'' Judge Smith told attorneys, adding, however, that he does not consider the report to be incontrovertible evidence. Reacting to the disclosure, Michael Caddell, lead attorney for the Branch Davidians, said ``You get good news. You get bad news. ... This is not going to result in a dismissal of the case.'' Caddell added that there was a suspicious pattern'' in the audio portion of the videotape. Several portions of the tape are missing audio, he said, and on one section of the tape someone is heard asking that the audio be turned off. Preliminary results from a recent court-ordered simulation of the siege staged at Ft. Hood, Texas showed that flashes captured by the original infrared videotape were most likely sunlight reflecting off bits of broken glass and other reflective debris - not government gunfire as Cadell's clients claim. The court appointed experts are expected to submit their analysis of that simulation to the court by May 8. Yet to be acted on by the court is a motion filed by the plaintiffs' attorneys accusing the government of: -Failing to return a roll of film confiscated from the Texas Rangers that showed bodies and weapons inside a concrete bunker. ``The absence of these photographs makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to determine if any of these persons were shot outside of that room and moved into it prior to or after the fire,'' the plaintiff's motion said. -Attempting to pass off as originals audio recordings made from listening devices planted inside the compound during the siege. The plaintiffs say an analysis indicates that the tapes are copies, not originals. The tapes - which the government says prove that it was the Davidians who spread fuel and started the fire - also show signs of being recorded with multiple recorders, an expert retained by the plaintiffs concluded. The government says the allegations are baseless, insisting that the plaintiffs' accusations relied on incomplete, illogical or scientifically invalid analyses. However, the government has admitted that it is missing 30 original negatives from the first of at least seven rolls of film shot by an FBI photographer who circled 1,000 feet above the complex in a surveillance aircraft, although they claim they have prints of the missing negatives along with the original contact sheet of the negatives. ###### P.S. If you are interested in a FREE high-speed DSL internet service provider, and/or a FREE $200 DSL modem, then register AND DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE (i.e., registration alone WON'T GET IT DONE) at: http://i.winfire.com/s/isapiEng.dll/wf.exe?cmd=rl&508,120031685&wf.exe OH, and you've only got till the 30th of this month to get it done. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
