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Transcripts for CNN Crimes of the Century 20130826 01:30:00

Cold jail cell. he tricked us. he fooled us. he played with us. on day six of the standoff another child comes out with a note pinned to her jacket. it says, once the children are out, the adults will die. we never got another child. we had a total of 21, and i will be eternally grateful for the fact that we were able to accomplish that. 27 children remained inside the compound. we continued to press david on that. david finally became very upset with the negotiator, and he stopped and yelled at them. he said, hey, you don t understand. the rest of these children are my children. ....

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Transcripts for CNN Crimes of the Century 20130826 01:03:00

Branch davidians. pretty stable leadership for a lot of years, and they were known in town as a swit somewhat bizarre but benign religious group that pretty much kept to themselves. the davidians bought property about ten miles east of town, built a compound, and named their sanctuary mount carmel after the sacred biblical site in israel. but in the early 1980s a new member appeared who would change everything. his given name vernon wayne howell. handsome and magnetic, he convinced his followers he would one day be reborn as jesus christ. church members would come to worship him as david koresh. koresh being the hebrew name for cyrus, the king and conquerer of babylon. he began to present the ideas that he had, and i would say 99% of the leadership of the church that were living at mount carmel ....

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Transcripts for CNN Crimes of the Century 20130826 01:09:00

Special agent robert rodriguez, who actually had interaction and met with david koresh. koresh was not shy about his arsenal or his intentions. he says, you know, i don t care what the atf says or does. it s my right to, you know, to burn weapons, and nobody is ever going to take me down. that s a red flag. when you couple a belief system of an apocalypse with a cult leader who is prepared to die and take everyone with him, giving him the tools to do so was a recipe for disaster. shortly after the undercover operation began, koresh stopped leaving the compound fearing he might be arrested. we knew pretty much from day one that we were being watched. after just over a month of surveillance, agent aguilera secured warrants to search the ....

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Transcripts for CNN Crimes of the Century 20130826 01:02:00

Zoon we have a fire at the compound in carmel. the entire compound is going up right now. it was an epic debacle in united states law enforcement history. a deadly shootout followed by a 51-day siege that ended with more than 70 people dead in a raging inferno. all caught on live television with the whole world watching. two questions rise from the ashes of this american tragedy. who shot first and who started the fire? it began innocently enough. in 1935 a small religious group moved to waco. an off-chute of the seven day adventist church, they eventually called themselves the ....

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Transcripts for CNN Crimes of the Century 20130826 01:10:00

Davidian compound and arrest david koresh. the warrants would be served on sunday, february 28th. the day before the waco herald tribune would finally run its story. a detailed expose titled the sinful messiah. the paper also found out about the raid. one of our reporters got a tip from a confidential informant that told him they were going to do something, so we made plans to have people out there to cover whatever it was. the atf plan called for a dynamic entry. around 75 agents, many hidden in cattle trailers, would rapidly descend on the compound, serve the warrants, arrest koresh, search the property, and seize the weapons. i thought the plan had it not been compromised would have worked. but the plan was compromised. ....

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