WACO: FLIR video Preliminary Review |
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By Ian Goddard |
I've just viewed the FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red) video shot from a helicopter over Mt Carmel in Waco, TX on April 19, 93; the final day of the Waco siege. This is the video reported to show gunshots being fired into the Mt. Carmel Center as the fire breaks out and shortly before. These FLIR gunshots where spoken of by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who will defend the Davidians in upcoming trails for wrongful death. I've taken this on faith of Ramsey and many experts that the FLIR does show gunshots. Well I saw it for myself yesterday and there's no question about it. I had the feeling beforehand that the shots might look like: "Ya, well, maybe they're gunshots." Nope. It could not more obvious !! The shots come from several points of origin very close to the building, within about 50 feet or less. The flashes on the FLIR video (where heat = brighter and cold = darker) are pure white and their shape has length with the widest portion being closest to the what stands to reason is a gun muzzle tapering to a point furthest from the muzzle, indicating that the shots are fired AT the building. The muzzle flash/streaks are sporadic. At one point appearing to be full automatic. They are most frequent as the fire increases. The tanks move around the points from which the shots emanate in such a way as to eliminate the possibility that they could be Davidians who had ventured outside to fire on the tanks. The shots are never pointed at the tanks, and like I said, the form and motion of the flashes indicate that they were fired at the building. All this firing occurred around the back. The media once had a view to the back, but I understand that the media was removed from that point of view shortly before April 19. I spoke with a survivor of the fire, David Thibodeau, who told me that the FBI tanks shoved debris that included broken wood, glass, and torn sharp-edged sheet metal all along the back walls of the Mt Carmel center on the last day. This served to block most doors and make any window jump a sure death trap. They did, however, apparently leave one open area that can be seen on the video. It's toward this area, which must have been the best escape route, that most shots are fired. There were openings around the front, but there was almost always tanks going deep inside them, or hanging around them -- not a very inviting exit, and at the same time, perfect wind channels to feed a fire. This open area around back where most shots were focused was approximately right next to the door to the concrete "bunker," or store room, where over 40 women and children died, many of whom, according to the pathologists, where crushed to death by the disintegrating concrete walls after a tank rammed the room. It seems that any of the women or children that would have tried to escape their tomb, were to be shot just as they exited. Several of the survivors said that they knew of many people who ran out the back, yet never survived. The survivors said that they believed these people were shot down, and they were saying this about as soon as they were able to speak to those not detaining them. Not until this FLIR video was carefully analyzed by experts was there any evidence for these claims. There is also evidence that Mt Camel Center was under long-range gunfire as the fire broke out and shortly before. The FLIR shows what Dr. Edward F. Allard, an expert in radiation physics and thermal imaging, believes are bullets ricocheting off surfaces from very rapid-firing machine guns that are being discharged toward the building from a long distance. There is also video shot by the FBI that is on Linda Thompson's "Waco II: The Big Lie Continues," that shows the building in the background just as the fire is breaking out while FBI agents talk casually. One can hear a series of gunshot "pops," each followed by an echo off the building. The physics of the acoustics dictate that these shots were fired from a distance towards the building. I've had one physicist and one engineer with overwhelming physics education analyze this video and both independently confirmed that the acoustics dictate shots at the building from a distance. It is my theory that the small objects seen on the FLIR video from which the gun shots emanate, which are just a few feet away, are unmanned firing "robots" that where placed there from the rear opening door of one of the varieties of tanks that can be seen on video in the early morning opening a draw-bridge-like door at the rear-end of the tank from which an agent walks out very near the building, it's my guess that it is one of the Bradley vehicles. Robot gunmen? Science fiction? Not at all. During the ATF/FBI massacre of the Weaver family in Idaho, they sent a small robot with tank-like treads for wheels up to the cabin. On it was mounted a shotgun and a phone. The FBI kept trying to get Randy Weaver to come out and pick up the phone. It stands to reason that he walks the earth today because he did not answer the FBI's call. The primary reasons to believe that the shots come from unmanned shooting units (probably equipped with motion sensors or perhaps remotely operated cameras), is that the objects that shoot always stay in one spot. After the fire breaks out the shooting becomes more frequent, they do not move even as a wall of fire is perhaps as close as 25 feet, but still not at the opening in the building that they shot at. My local fire department burned down an old house here years ago for practice and I walked about 45 feet close to it. The heat radiating from it at that distance was so massive I thought the hairs on my face would burn off. No human could be as close as those shooting objects are, which always assume only one position; ergo, they must be mechanical shooting units like the one used by the FBI during the Weaver family massacre. Also on the FLIR one can see what appears to be a burning object impaled in the outside wall at one of the spots where the fire starts. It stands to reason that this burning impaled object was fired from a tank that was not far from that spot. Well that's my preliminary Waco FLIR analysis. *********************************************************************** IAN GODDARD (igoddard@erols.com) Q U E S T I O N A U T H O R I T Y ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VISIT Ian Goddard's Universe -----> http://www.erols.com/igoddard _______________________________________________________________________ TWA 800: THE FACTS --> http://www.erols.com/igoddard/twa-fact.htm WACO - WTC - OKC ---> http://www.erols.com/igoddard/facts.htm -- Dave Feustel http://feustel.mixi.net 219-483-1857 mailto:feustel@netcom.comFound at http://feustel.mixi.net/Waco/waco_review.txt
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