Who fired first when the ATF attacked Mount Carmel?
That's a question the front doors, through which the
first shots traveled, could answer, but alas, one of
the two metal front doors disappeared after the fire.
Now a Texas state trooper gives some testimony that
may be relevant to the disappearance of that door:
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Feds Spirited Body, Door Away at Waco, Trooper Says
NewsMax.com
Friday, March 10, 2000
In startling testimony, a Texas state trooper told
lawyers that what appeared to be a body and a missing
door were spirited away from the Waco scene just before
troopers took over the Mt. Carmel site from the FBI.
Sgt. David Keys also stunned lawyers and government
attorneys in the wrongful death case filed by survivors
of the Branch Davidian sect when he testified that he
overheard FBI agents talking about a "fire fight"
taking place in the rear of the compound. The government
has insisted there had been no gunfire in that area
despite infrared evidence indicating there had been.
Keys, a 17-year veteran of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, said that about 4 p.m. on April 19,
over an hour before Texas Rangers took possession of
the Mt. Carmel site, his superiors ordered him to
permit a white van to enter the area "to pick up a
body," according to James Brannon, an attorney for
the plaintiffs. The trooper said he saw an empty body
bag inside the van.
When the white van left the compound, Keys said he
saw the body bag containing what looked like the shape
of a corpse, Brannon said.
"The van that Keys saw could only have been kept
secret, at that level, by the military," Brannon
told reporters. "If somebody was killed, they could
just say that he was killed in a training accident.
It's a mystery who it was and we're waiting for
somebody in the government to tell us."
"Keys also says that he saw something as big as a
door being loaded into a U-Haul truck. One of the
doors from Mount Carmel has been missing since the
day of the fire -- the door that might prove that
during the Feb. 28 raid, the ATF fired first,"
Brannon added.
Keys also testified that earlier on April 19, 1993,
while he was at the DPS Waco commando center, he
overheard an FBI agent say that a "firefight" was
under way at the back of the Mount Carmel compound,
Brannon said.
It has been alleged that the feds fired upon the
rear of the Mount Carmel site in the final moments
of the tank-and-tear-gas assault of April 19, in
what may have been an effort to prevent any of the
Davidians from leaving the inferno alive.
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WACO PROTEST: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/waco-1.htm
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"There are times when you cannot keep your job and
put alternative explanations for data on the table."
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