At 01:09 AM 7/21/96 -0800, Chris Adams wrote:

On 20 Jul 96 23:12:20 -0800, alanh@infi.net wrote:

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I think this has relevance to the black-ninjas-pretending-that-they're-in-a-Hollywood-script thread about cops making unanounced search warrant services at 4am.

I have tremendous admiration for my local LEO's. It's the federales that are the problem, usually.

I'm thinking of Waco, where, I've heard, more experienced SWAT-types tried to talk their bosses out of a certain infamous mistake...

Subsequent to the initial Waco raid, the government was claiming that the Davidians were "ready" for them. I think it was easy to tell that this was a lie: Had they actually been READY, far more than 4 agents would have been dead. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com