So the Branch Davidians initiated an ambush on the ATF at Mount Carmel...

By firing through the closed front door? This is what I am supposed to believe? That they knew that the ATF was coming and this was the best plan they had? Does anyone know how to initiate a successful ambush particularly when you have time and know the terrain and can properly prepare it?






The entire case against the David Koresh and his followers has been they initiated the violent confrontation when the ATF arrived. I finally watched “Waco: Rules of Engagement” and saw the testimony of ATF agent Jim Cavanaugh. His testimony before Congress;

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``The Davidians fired first and I am sickened by any other assertion,? Cavanaugh said. ``If I thought an ATF agent would drive up to a structure and start firing, I’d throw my badge in the garbage,? he added. ``It didn’t happen.?

AP - Agent Denies ATF Fired First at Waco, Surrender Offer Called Ruse

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This is supported by the account from the official ATF website;

ATF Fallen Agent Page - Conway C. LeBleu

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On February 28, 1993, Special Agent Conway Charles LeBleu was part of a large, specially trained and well disciplined force of ATF special agents from the Dallas, Houston and New Orleans Field Divisions; assigned to execute Federal warrants at the Branch Davidian Compound. Unfortunately, the Davidians had been alerted to the impending raid by a local postman, who was also a cult member. When the agents arrived, the fanatical, heavily armed, cult members were waiting in ambush as the agents disembarked from their vehicles. Koresh was outside on the porch, but as the agents approached telling him they had a search warrant and instructing him to "get down," he retreated inside the house. When the agents approached, a burst of gunfire was fired through the door, wounding one agent.

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If the Davidians knew the ATF was coming and did not have individuals in the four windows above and prepared to put enfilading fire on them the moment they were still in single file on the road into the compound then they do not understand what the concept of an ambush is. And they let the ATF deploy from their vehicles into a linear formation and initiated the ambush through the closed door where you cannot even be sure of what you are shooting at is sheer stupidity.

And yet in the opening seconds of the firefight there are only bullet holes in the front door and no bullet holes or indications of Davidians in the windows above. So either the Davidians were grossly incompetent in their tactical employment or they did not initiate the firefight. Their entire plan was to fire through the door based upon the information from the ATF site.

Add to that the Davidians are the ones who called 911 to stop the shooting and it becomes even more suspect. And the fact that this right bullet riddled steel door could not be recovered as evidence after the fire while the left door was is beyond ridiculous.

This is just insane that we still believe the narrative these innocent people deserved to be murdered by their own government. Just incredible.

Never forget.