I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR yesterday evening (9/27/10) - "Gary Noesner, who spent 30 years as a hostage negotiator for the FBI" (hmm - he said 23 years, during the 30 years he worked for the FBI) was being interviewed and his involvement in the Branch Davidian negotiations was discussed.
This started about 13 1/2 minutes into the podcast and lasted about 14 minutes - but the interviewer (Terry Gross) started by asking him about dealing with the BDs who were "armed to the teeth." Note that the NPR Media Player allows you to move the cursor to move ahead/back instead of having to wait through everything. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13 'Stalling For Time' With An FBI Hostage Negotiator He points out that the FBI didn't enter until after the initial violence by the ATF. He was there for the "first half" and 35 people came out during that time. His idea was to keep people coming out slowly - but others had "different ideas" about strategy. "It's a sad bit of history in the FBI." Terry Gross says the end was the BDs poured "inflammatory liquid" [sic] around the compound. Noesner had left before them - but he says the BDs burned down the compound. -- --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
