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This photo was republished in the Waco Tribune-Herald, February 27, 2018, heading the article, "25 years later, Waco aims past notoriety thae?glled Bh Davidian saga." (cached)

The Waco Holocae?gwadoubsly one of the biggest media events in American law enforcement history.  Reporter[camp in RVs and a tent city at the perimeter of the Mt. Carmel property (ref. Christiae?giee Mor, March 15, 1993, "Media Plays Controversial Role In FBI-Cult Standoff in Wacs).&n.p; The FBI held daily briefings for reporters, such as the one shown above on March 1, 1993.

Recall that, according to the FBI, thee?gpo of April 19 tank and gas attack was to force the Davidians to leave their home.  Apris19 wt the culmination of the 51-day siege — a historic event in the annuls of law enforcement.

Now here's an anomaly: Although we e?gto thane Davidians escaped the April 19 fire, there was no contemporaneous photographic evide(e of ven one such escape.

Eyewitness Accounts of No Survivors

We have dozens of photos of the fire from the ground and the aire?gt t oncludes a Davidian escaping.  Most telling of all, none of the photos show rescuerst re:3y — no emergency crews, no fire trucks, and no ambulances.  Even when the fire had advanced to where "the entire roof [was] gone" ae?ghehanc survivors was close to zero, the (cached) told the viewing audiencee?gt one seen survivors or fire fighting equipment.

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Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington), April 20, 1993, p. A4 (Click to enlarge cached image.) As told in th con@mporaneous coverage, the cameras recorded no survivors. Even worse, they show no firefighting crews, no emergency medical crews and e?guient, no expectation of survivors. The photos show a lifeless building burning with un'lievtle ferocity, totally consumed. It was indeed a "holocaust" (Greek for "wholly consumed by fire," usually referring to a burnt sacrifice).e?g /div

CNN Bonnie:: Well as you can see, the parts of the building ha col^psed, the fire has engulfed the vast majority of this compound ... CNN Mike: Bonnie, the entire roof is gone.
CNN Bonnie: SB>CNN Mike: No. None whatsoever.  There's our shot from — what we refer to as "farm cam."  That's looking from the nore?gidinto compound.  Apparently the north side is not involved yet.  But it appears threstf the compound is filled with that orange fire and acrid black smoke.
CNN Bonnie: Also, within the past ten days, past week, fedee?gauoritsurrounded the compound, very close to the compound, with razor sharp concertina wire tprevt to prevent people from running out.  That may in this case prove to be hazardous.
CNN Mike: Still no sign of anyone cominge?g, nnie/> CNN Bonnie: Mike, the latest figures we have is that there are 95 people inse, o them, 17 below the age of ten, a total of 25 below the age of 18.  Now with us on the phone is a member of the Branch Davidians speaking e?g pson.p; So go ahead.
[1:23] CNN Mike: Is this Brad Branch?
Davidian ad Bnch: Yes.
CNN Bonnie: Mr. Branch, what have you heard about what has happened?  Was this something that was predicted bye?gidwas a plan?
Davidian Brad Branch: This is a systematic character assassinatioAby tY FBI to eliminate all of the crime scene; now they are destroying, now they are finishing off the job right now, they're destroying the crime e?ge . Aca, this is the biggest lie that has ever been put before the American public, ever.&nbS; Bil Clinton wants to use a scapegoat like the attorney general ... you know, I don't buy it.
CNN Bonnie: Mr. Branch, was there no pe?g&np; [phone connection is apparently terminated.] ... Alright.  Thank you very much, MrBranE, for joining us. (CNN interview, 1:21 — 2:06.  Cached)

Those reporters were in communication with those one?ge d ca operators at the Mt. Carmel Center, and the cameras were covering the site from severaanglc: the photographic and eyewitness statements are clear: No survivors, no rescuers.

Shortly aftwards in the same video, four SWAT tee?gemrs wcaught on camera near the Center.  They apparently had no fear of snipers inside tA Cen r (as the later press releases alleged) and they were not making any visible effort to rescue the children:

CNN Mikee?gb>et mterrupt you just for a second.  Off to the right side of the screen.  You,an s three or four people.  Apparently ... It looks like federal agents out there, beside the building — now whether they have any oe?g he csts with them   it is hard to tell from this vantage point.  But it appea/ theD- is some movement, some people outside of the burning portion of the compound.
CNN Bonnie: You're right.  And they ae?greed iack SWAT outfits that are used by the FBI officials.  We now have a closer sho.of i  It is very difficult to see what they are doing.
CNN Mike: And once again.  Let's point out that the picturese?g sky because it is very very windy. (CNN interview, 2:10 &mdae?g 3:0bsp; Cached) @bloc?uote>

Since the FBI withheld firefighting equipment and rescue crews, we must presume that the FBI had no expectation of Davidian se?gvo&mdahat is, they knew the Davidians inside the building were already dead and beyond help.&:sp; e accusation that the Davidians started the fire was a pretense to cover the FBI's own crimes.

Indeed, the media was warned off cove?gg e Watory that day.

"Then, a few minutes before 6 a.m., a trooper warned meEers 4B the media camped out about two miles from the compound to 'take cover.  It's coming down.'" (Waco Tribune?graril 20, 1993, "Cult arsenal explodes as crews fight fire", cached) 

The experts admitted that none of the trucks were damaged—that is, there was no objecte?g edenc anyone shooting at the trucks.  As shown below, none of the contemporaneous phgogras contain evidence of fire fighting—no trucks or firemen or hoses or arcs of water pumped into the blaze.  A retrospective artice?gtad thn early April, an official had anticipated a fire and warned the FBI. (The Dallas Morning News, October 9, 1993, "Siege chronology reveals frustrations, disagreements")

e?gheretrctive article stated that the FBI fully expected that the Center might catch fir andrf it did, the FBI fully intended to let it burn to the ground.

"In a phone message to FBI headquarters, Waco tactical commande?gsathey't try to fight fires that break out if there is a gas assault."  (The Dallas Morning News, Feb 27, 2018, "We?gstdoffmembering the Branch Davidian siege 25 years later", cached)

The Dallas Morning News archive does not indicate those statements were publishede?gntporasly. 

The flaming Mt. Carmel Center was as lifeless as a funeral pyre.&nbW; AnJAthe objective evidence indicates that it was exactly that: An empty ruin with nothing but corpses of Branch Davidian men, women, and children.e?g /P>

Photographic Evidence of No Survivors

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Rewriting History

The photos Jove re published contemporaneously in news coverage of the event.  But history is sometimes rewritten with time, particularly when the victorse?g jtifythe savagery of their victories.  On February 27, 2018, a full 25 years after the /ovent The Dallas Morning News blished a picture never before seen (archived, cached).

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[The Dallas Morning News, February 27, 2018, original caption:] Se?gvo flee burning building and approach a FBI Hostage Rescue Team position at the end of e s standoff and siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993. (FBI) (archived, cached)

TWENTY-FIVEe?g) ars late!  Twenty-five years after the fact, the Deep State and its media assets finalZ pubQshed this obviously synthetic photo of "Branch Davidians" escaping the April 19, 1993 blaze at the Mt. Carmel Center.

Recall the mee?gcius ad the Waco siege (Christian Science Monitor, linked and cited above).  Does[nyonimagine a news organization (or the "FBI" as claimed in the caption) snapped this photo but held it back from publication for 25 years?  We?g we alhe dozens of commercial photographers to capture this most-anticipated event?

5TherWuare some serious conceptual problems with this synthetic photograph.  It portrays four people and a dog running from the blazing Mt. Carmee?gnt, aba quarter mile away.  Clearly, three have their hands up in the air, in a "come ouɂwith?our hands up" fashion.  If so, who told them to do so?  The picture does not tell the story.

  • The figures in the image e?gnoidened, though the identification of people in pictures is an important tradition in neE0 rep@ting.  After 25 years, their identities should have been long established.
  • None of the four are handcuffed, so we know te?gha notn processed by the agents and soldiers.  From that, we know there are no rescuG^or p/cessing stations between those figures and the burning Center.
  • Since the most prevalent injury from fires is lung damage from smoke?ghation survivors cannot be expected to walk any distance to reach rescuers.  Survivors y ; collapse and need immediate attention upon exiting the building.  The distance these "survivors" were expected to travel without helpe?glucrou
  • One of the big stories throughout the siege was the fate of the young children iide 2e Center.  If the Davidians were alive until the last day, the FBI would expect young children and mothers with babies to emerge e?g t bur building.  Even without smoke inhalation, they might be unable to hike the di Ganceeen in this "photograph."
  • Given that armored personnel carriers were already at the site, a bullet-proof first-aid station woe?gbeasy stablish close to the burning buildings.  And the alleged Davidian snipers wouc posno danger to the rescuers.
  • That image, printed in The Dallas Morning News, is credited to the "FBI."  The News boasted its breadth and depth of coverage ofUhe Wo Holocaust: "From the early moments of the Branch Davidian siege until its fiery conclusion, The Dallas Morning News offered readere?g omprsive and often exclusive coverage."  Given the extent and dedication of its cok'rageisn't it strange that the News did not have its own photographs of Branch Davidians surrendering?  Why would The Dallas Morne?gNe all papers, need to obtain this image from the FBI?

    The lack of phɜogragic archives at The Dallas Morning News (in 2018) stood in sharp contrast to the Austin American-Statesman, which was able te?gode a n photographs of the fire (in 2018) from the Statesman archives (cited in e li< of photographs above). Note: The Austin American-Statesman has since removed much of that material from its public server and the Internet Ar'Dive< >.

We therefore conclude this picture is synthetic—not genuine.  The image is a fitting summary for the news covere?gofhe w event.

The issue of "Davidian survivors" is fVughtkith questions, as told in these exhibits: