-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/9/12/113207 - Sunday September 12, 12:39 PM Secret Waco Ballistics Tests May Back Sensational Video Chief House Waco prober Dan Burton (R-IN) said Sunday that he has turned over videotape shot during the government's final April 19 assault on the Branch Davidian compound to technical experts who will determine whether the film shows federal forces shooting into the building. For six years the FBI and Justice Department have staunchly denied they fired gunshots into the compound on the day the Davidian's Mt. Carmel church burned to the ground. But ballistics evidence that could confirm charges federal forces shot and killed a number of Mt. Carmel residents has been witheld by the government for years, according to at least one local Texas law enforcement official. Burton told Fox News Sunday's Tony Snow that the expert video analysis is currently ongoing: SNOW: You have received some film from Michael McNulty who was on our program last week. He's done a documentary on Waco and is about to release another one. He purports that, that film shows definitively that FBI agents, or federal agents, fired on the Branch Davidian compound. You and your staff have looked at that film. Does it in fact show that definitively? BURTON: We need to look at that through the eyes of experts. I'm having those tapes analyzed by two different experts right now. We're going to try to find out as clearly as possible whether or not there was either the military involved or the FBI involved in firing into that compound. And so I don't think I can make a comment on that right now because the experts haven't given us their judgement. But on Friday, one of four McClennan County, Texas justices who ordered autopsies for the Branch Davidian victims told the Waco Tribune-Herald that the FBI witheld key ballistics test evidence that could confirm charges they were killed by government gunfire. "The thing that always stayed in my mind was if they were afraid some of the ordinance or ballistics could be matched up with their weaponry," Justice of the Peace David Pareya told the paper. Because the government would not release those tests results, the cause of death for many Davidians was officially recorded as unknown, the McClennan County official said. Survivors of the final Mt. Carmel assault charge that government forces fired into the compound and are ultimately responsible for the gunshot deaths. Tarrant County, Texas coroner Nizam Peerwani determined that 23 Davidians died from gunshot wounds. The Clinton Justice Department has claimed that Mount Carmel residents died by their own hands. In a Rose Garden press conference the day after the Waco massacre, President Clinton asserted that the Davidians "murdered themselves." But Dr. Peerwani said on Friday, "There is the feeling that one should go back and re-evaluate." The autopsy results of at least one of Peerwani's examinations has been challeged since he released his initial findings. Evidence noted by the Tarrant County coroner suggests that the death of Branch Davidian victim Winston Blake was caused by friendly fire. Gunpowder burns Peerwani found on Blake's skull indicate he was shot at close range. Blake was shot during the initial Feb. 28 BATF assault on Mt. Carmel. Blake's case was covered by Dick Reavis for his 1995 book, "The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation." Less than five months after his death, Blake's family, who lived in Manchester, England, had his body sent home for a second autopsy. The Manchester Police Department physician retained by relatives disputed the presence of powder burns on Blake's skull. He concluded in his autopsy report: "This injury had probably been caused by a destabilized high velocity rifle bullet of relatively low weight. This missile had probably been destabilized so as to cause it to yaw in flight prior to striking the victim. Such destabilization could have been achieved if the bullet had previously passed through a light screening cover, such as the light-weight material reported to have been used in the construction of the (Mt. Carmel) building walls." -- Dan S DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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