Day 50 of the Waco Standoff

April 18
On the morning of April 18, the Attorney General notified the President that she had
approved a plan to use CS gas at the compound the next day. The President indicated that he concurred with the decision of the Attorney General.

During the afternoon, the United States Attorney's office in Waco obtained arrest
warrants from a U.S. Magistrate Judge foreveryone known to be inside the compound.
The warrants charged some of the individuals with crimes, and others as material witnesses.

The United States Attorney's office had previously obtained search warrants for the
compound on April 13 and April 16. At 1:53 p.m., in preparation for the insertion of
the CS gas into the compound, the armored vehicles began to remove the remaining
vehicles from in front of the compound.

At 2:00 p.m., Koresh called the negotiators,angrily complaining that the cars were
"irreplaceable," and that the people in the compound were going "to get mad." Koresh
threatened that the safety of the women and children were in jeopardy. In particular, Koresh was angered by the removal of his personal automobile, a Chevrolet Camaro. Schneider told the negotiators later that day that he was not as upset as Koresh about the removal of the vehicles; however, there was still no
progress in the negotiations. The FBI warned the Branch Davidians to stay out of the tower during the operation to clear the automobiles. The tower provided the occupants with an ideal sniper post.

Nevertheless, while the armored vehicles were removing the vehicles, adults held up children in the other windows of the compound. In addition, an HRT sniper saw a cardboard sign placed in one of the windows of the compound that read "Flames Await." The sign had flames drawn on it as well. The sniper reported what he had seen to the command post.
[Material redacted as required by statute].

(The Myth: Those warrants were illegal and the FBI tortured those people!)

[The Truth LOL! After they lost on everything else, the Waco Wackos were reduced to screaming that the process was illegal, namely the warrants. This is the one of the same 'technicalities,' that they scream people get off on. The fact of the matter is that the defense attorneys for the surviving Davidians NEVER brought up the legality of the search and arrest warrants in court.

[If they didn't like the way they were being treated by the FBI, all they had to do was leave the compound instead of murdering their kids and then committing suicide.]

S. Olson