Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

Reasons for an Assault

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Over the next several months, Janet Reno’s reasoning before launching the final assault had changed. Initially, she claimed that they were going to lead an attack because there were children being sexually abused and babies were being beaten. Yet, it was later discovered that there was no evidence of such abuse during the standoff. However, in time, her reasoning changed, and she believed that if they didn’t attack first, militia supporter and conspiracy theorist Linda Thompson and her “Unorganized Militia of the United States” was going to come to either aid or attack Koresh, leading to a massive loss of life either way

So, they came up with a plan to flush the Branch Davidians out as soon as possible.