The Concrete Tomb
(c) 1999 Ian Williams Goddard

In Waco, Texas, April 19, 1993, forty one women and children died in a concrete room often called "the bunker" wherein they sought protection from a tank and gas attack by the Federal Government on their home, the Mount Carmel Center. The concrete room shall heretofore be called "the room."

The room was located directly below the central tower of the Mt Carmel Center. In the following Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) images we can see that a tank has penetrated the Center directly in line with the room. The FBI had intimate knowledge of the interior of the Center, and with bugs inside, should have known where people were. The tank penetrates deeply inside several times, headed directly toward the room (the bright area at the rear of the tank is hot-engine exhaust).
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The tank goes in and out several times, and goes in slightly deeper than seen above. What is it doing? The tank, equipped with a large plow, is invariably plowing demolished debris of the building and its interior furnishings up against the front of the room, creating a large barrier of hazardous debris in front of the door to the room, as we can see in this illustration.
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The autopsy report states that one person died of traumatic injuries directly in front of the room. Some media reports suggested that the holes made by tanks would facilitate easy egress from the building, but in fact, as the illustration shows, the wreckage created by the tanks would do the very opposite.

Plowing a large mass of debris directly in front of the door to the room would serve only to impede escape, particularly for small children, from a room that was shortly to become a fire-baked oven. The tank was creating a death trap. Sealing the fate of the women and children inside the room even further was the fact that the doorway had no door and by that time most occupants should have been overcome by the knockout effects of methylene chloride, the main CS-power carrier (see 7). The tank seen above even fired CS gas while it was inside. With these facts in mind, the claim in the Department of Justice report that the forty one women and children in the concrete room could have escaped if they wanted to is a horrific farce.