-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Report: Davidian admits firing at agents Thursday, 24 February 2000 15:14 (ET) Report: Davidian admits firing at agents SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- For the first time, a Branch Davidian survivor of the 1993 shootout near Waco has admitted firing at two of the four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents killed in the gunfight. Livingstone Fagan made the admission in a desposition taken by a government lawyer in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Branch Davidian survivors over the deadly 51-day siege, the San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday. Fagan said he shot at ATF agents on the roof of the Mount Carmel building during the gunfight on the first day of the standoff. A heavily armed team of ATF agents was attempting to serve search warrants for alleged illegal firearms at the Davidian compound. Fagan was convicted in 1994 of manslaughter and a weapons charge and is serving a 40-year prison sentence in federal prison. During the San Antonio trial, Fagan and 10 other accused Davidians did not take the witness stand. None ever admitted firing on the agents, until now. Fagan said the shooting in which he was involved on that day was not the one for which he was convicted in the trial. In the Feb. 1 deposition, Fagan told a federal civil lawyer during the interview at an Allenwood, Pa., federal prison that he fired in self-defense. "Your government murdered people who were very dear to me," he said. When asked if he had fired at the ATF agents, Fagan said he "responded." When asked if he hit any of them, Fagan said, "I don't know specifically, because I assume that there were others, too, that were firing then." Two of the ATF agents, Todd McKeeham, 28, and Conway LeBleu, 34, both from the New Orleans bureau, were killed on the roof. Fagan was not at Mount Carmel on April 19, 1993, when more than 80 Davidians died in a fire that consumed the building as the FBI was pouring tear gas inside. He surrendered March 22, he said, because Davidian leader David Koresh asked him to be a spokesman. The trial of the wrongful-death lawsuit is scheduled in May in federal court at Waco, Texas. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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 http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== 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
