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SATURDAY AUGUST 28 1999
Reno planned final assault with Delta Force operatives Classified
documents, Special Forces sources show military warned her about use of CS
gas
By Betsy Gibson � 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Contrary to public statements made in recent days, Attorney General Janet
Reno and FBI officials planned the final deadly assault on the Branch
Davidian church in Waco, Texas, with top officers of the Delta Force,
according to classified documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act and Special Forces sources.
The FBI actually requested that Special Forces Delta Force operatives
consult with them, be present on the scene and maintain equipment in
preparation for a resolution of the 1993 51-day standoff that resulted in a
fire that killed 80 civilians including many children, according to the
documents and a knowledgeable military source.
Despite this powerful evidence, as of yesterday an FBI spokesman, Tron
Brekke, was still telling the Dallas Morning News that he could not say
whether Delta Force might have actively assisted the FBI in any way in Waco
"because I don't think anybody knows. ... That's part of the reason that
the attorney general and the director are, in a very expeditious manner,
going to have 40 assistant inspectors and whoever is chosen to lead them
come down and find out definitively what did happen," he said. "I don't
know what was done or wasn't done down there."
Meanwhile, the documented information WorldNetDaily has obtained reveals
that not only did Reno actively seek involvement by Delta Force, but she
was warned at one meeting she attended with the FBI, Delta Force Colonel
John Boykin and Webster Hubbell that the use of CS tear gas would have a
variety of effects, one of which would be "Some people would panic, Quote:
"mothers may run off and leave infants."
The FBI's admission just days ago that pyrotechnic tear-gas canisters "may
have been used" was an abrupt reversal of a six-year denial that its agents
used anything capable of sparking a fire at the compound. The Delta Force
document detailing the Delta Force/Reno/FBI meeting notes that when Reno
asked Delta Force officers for their "assessment" of the plan, she was
told: "This was not a military operation and could not be assessed as such.
We explained that the situation was not one that we had ever encountered
and that the Rules of Engagement for the FBI were substantially different
than for a military operation. [name redacted] stated, "We can't grade your
paper," as a way of explaining our position."
A WorldNetDaily Special Forces source who analyzed this and other
statements says Delta Force was clearly uncomfortable with any association
with the FBI's plans at Waco.
In another section of the document, a Delta Force colonel writes: "My final
comments were that I believed that the HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) should
consider pulling their people off the target for a short period to retrain
and polish some of the perishable(WND: difficult to read, looks like
"perishable") skills. I made it clear that I was not encouraging an
immediate execution of the operation. My exact words were, "I don't have a
dog in this fight."
WorldNetDaily's source says he believes that statement shows again how
Delta Force cringed over getting involved at WACO, "I believe he (the Delta
Force colonel) meant that he didn't want to be directly involved in it, and
did not want to be dragged into it. Delta Force operators, and Task Force
160 operators continually cautioned the FBI against attempting an "open air
assault" on the target, and stated emphatically that they did not want to
be involved in firing on or assaulting American civilians, according to a
source. These official and unofficial comments went ignored and, in fact,
one Special Operations Officer was threatened with court-martial if he
continued to protest, the source said. At another point in the document,
Delta Force personnel explain to Reno that Special Forces encounters are
almost always militaristic and involve outright enemies who are often
heavily armed. Delta Force explains that in its standard modus operandi it
was, "The principles of surprise, speed and violence of action [that] were
essential to any operation. [redacted] stated that momentum should be
maintained and that ground gained should not be relinquished." A WND
military source says "violence of action" usually refers to killing the
"hostiles."
A former Special Forces commando says he spoke yesterday to a Delta Force
commando who was present at the final tear-gas assault on the Branch
Davidian compound. Keith Idema, who was a member of Special Forces and
Special Operations units from 1975 to 1992 and helped to train hostage
rescue team personnel for both Delta Force and the FBI, says pictures from
Waco released this week by the Texas Department of Public Safety have been
mistakenly identified by the department as gun silencers and suppressors
belonging to David Koresh and his followers which were found inside the
compound after the fire. Idema says they are actually concussion grenades
manufactured by a company, Defense Technology, and purchased by the FBI.
Idema also says the bright light seen on video footage as flashing inside
the building moments before the fire broke out have been misidentified as a
fire started by Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, when, in fact, to the
trained eye of a Special Forces explosive expert it is unmistakably the
flash caused by a "concussion grenade" that has been lobbed inside the
compound. A concussion grenade uses a brilliant flash and loud bang to
render an enemy in its vicinity blind, deaf and immobile for a brief period
during which commandos can overpower them. Such grenades should be used
only for military purposes and were wholly inappropriate, if not illegal to
be used in a situation involving women and children -- and any situation
where potentially inflammable tear gas was still hanging in the air, the
former Special Forces operative said.
Charges that the FBI used incendiary grenades which may have caused the
fire were dismissed by Reno. For six years, since the assault on April 19,
1993, until six days ago, Reno maintained that no military weapons were
used. When a report from Texas DPS forced her to admit that some might have
been used, she still dismissed any possibility that they could have caused
the fire, stating that they were used in the early morning hours before the
fire began. According to Idema, the FBI was taking an ill-advised chance
using a military CS tear gas grenade at any time knowing that, unlike the
kind of tear gas used in civilian situations, this type leaves a vapor that
hangs in the air for a longer period of time and can ignite under certain
circumstances.
The concussion grenades and military fuses he says were used moments before
the fire broke out could have ignited the lingering tear gas vapors and
started the fire. Idema also points out that other photographs released
clearly show an FBI agent with a .50-caliber Browning machine gun next to
his leg.
Such weapons are to be used only against armored equipment and weapons,
certainly not civilians, says Idema.
"Why were they there?" he asks. "Koresh didn't have any tanks or
helicopters, or APCs. The Geneva Convention states that these weapons are
never to be used in an anti-personnel role."
The bureau's admission that such devices "may have been used" marked an
abrupt reversal of a long-standing denial that its agents used anything
capable of sparking a fire at the church.
Bureau and Justice Department officials have maintained that the devices
could not have played a role in the fire because they were used hours
before the blaze and were fired at an underground bunker adjacent to the
wooden church compound.
A pending wrongful-death suit filed by surviving Branch Davidians and
families of the dead has alleged that agents launched pyrotechnic devices
into the compound and fired into the building. The government vehemently
denies those charges.
Federal officials from President Clinton down have staunchly maintained in
the six years since the tragedy that FBI agents did not fire a single shot
during the entire 51-day siege.
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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