chanting to rabbits being killed. This barrage was intended to weaken
             the will of those inside the compound who were now largely cut off from contact with the outside world.
             On April 19, the FBI, in what appears to have been a terrible decision, began another assault. It
             included knocking holes in the outer walls of the compound's buildings with a tank and spraying tear gas into
             the interiors. Of course, the FBI did not describe this as an assault, but as closing the periphery and increasing
             the pressure on cult members to surrender. In particular, the FBI hoped that the women would pack up and
             leave with their children--that their maternal insticts would take over . Instead the compound went up in
             flames. Over 75 cult members were burnt alive in a blaze that the FBI says was started by cult members.
             Some factors point to this being a mass suicide, yet surviving Branch Davidians have said that the fires started
             when the assault on the walls of the compound spilled fuel from kerosene lamps.
             Six years after the Waco siege came to its violent end, citizens are angry and shocked about details
             just recently unfolding concerning the raid that left more than 75 dead. Allegations that military personnel
             were present and participated in the raid on the Davidian compound raise serious questions about mingling of
             military and civilian forces in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids such
             Just one day after the siege ended in flaming terror, President Clinton gave the American people a
             glimpse of what to expect from the government. The government could not be responsible for, "the fact that a
             bunch of fanatics decided to kill themselves," he said. He then warned that "there is,
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