.id AA00620; Tue, 1 Aug 95 15:30:26 CDT
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 15:30:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 71



              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 71
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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WACO "ABUSE" TESTIMONY DOUBTED
[*Spotlight*, 08/07/95]

There's a problem with the emotional testimony linking David 
Koresh to child molestation: It may not be true.

Exclusive To The Spotlight
By Andrew Arnold

Republicans heading the Waco hearings in Washington, and the U.S. 
Establishment media, have let a young girl pull the wool over 
their eyes as she tugged at America's heart strings.

The problem is, she may have been lying, according to a leading 
British newspaper.

When 14-year-old Kiri Jewell told the congressional panel 
investigating Waco she had been sexually abused by David Koresh 
when she was 10, there wasn't a dry eye in the house -- nor a 
murmur of protest from the Republican members.

But Washington-based British reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 
wasn't satisfied he had heard the whole story. He made a few 
telephone calls and discovered Jewell was not in Texas at the 
time the alleged abuse took place.

"A few telephone calls would have told [Republicans] that Kiri 
had not been a resident in the compound -- despite press reports 
to the contrary," Pritchard wrote in the *London Telegraph*. "She 
was living with her mother and grandmother in California for most 
of the years in question."

"Her father, David Jewell, has been promoting her allegations on 
the TV talk show circuit," he added. "He is a man of questionable 
character."

                      -+- Repeat -+-

This is not the first time the Establishment has used a pretty, 
young abused face to further its propaganda aims.

On October 10, 1990, Nayirah, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti, tearfully 
told Congress how Iraqi soldiers stormed a hospital in Kuwait, 
pulling babies from incubators and leaving the infants to die as 
the machines were shipped to Iraq on Saddam Hussein's orders.

The dramatic testimony drew international coverage and swung 
America into its war mode.

It was more than a year before Americans realized they had been 
used. The girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti 
ambassador, Saud Nasir al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family 
(*Spotlight*, Jan. 27, 1992) {1}.

The testimony was staged by Hill and Knowlton, one of the top 
public relations firms in Washington. The firm's vice president, 
Gary Hymel, prepared the witness list for the Congressional Human 
Rights Caucus.

Hymel later told an author he knew who "Nayirah" actually was 
when he presented her to America.

                   -+- Other Testimony -+-

According to attorneys for leaders of the Branch Davidians, David 
Koresh and the other church members were prepared to surrender 
within about two weeks of the Waco holocaust.

Attorney "Dick DeGuerin and Koresh were going to exit first -- to 
show everybody that they weren't going to be executed the minute 
they stepped out the door," said Jack Zimmermann, attorney for 
Davidian Steve Schneider. {2}.

The lawyers told the congressional panel the FBI had agreed to 
the surrender. Adult Davidians would walk through a metal 
detector, then have plastic wrist restraints placed on them. Both 
the government and Establishment media were going to tape the 
arrests.

"We had a deal," Zimmermann said. "We told [FBI negotiators] on 
the 14th, [the Davidians] were coming out. We told them it would 
take another 10 or 12 days. We asked them 'Do you have that much 
time?'"

"They said, 'We have all the time in the world to resolve this 
peacefully,'" he added.

When Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) asked what frustrated the plan, 
Zimmermann blamed "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington."

The Justice Department denies a deal was cut. A spokesman said 
the FBI and Davidians' attorneys discussed various plans, but the 
FBI felt Koresh could not be trusted.

 +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +

You may be unable to obtain a copy of the *Spotlight* via your 
local library or news dealer. To subscribe to the *Spotlight*, 
phone 1-800-522-6292 (in Maryland phone 1-301-951-6292).

---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
{1} See also, Robert Parry's *Fooling America: How Washington 
Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom* 
(New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992).

{2} The final, April 19th gas attack and subsequent immolation 
may have, in fact, been prompted by the very fact that Koresh and 
followers were indeed about to surrender. The last thing certain 
people in power would have wanted would have been living 
witnesses and an intact Mount Carmel building. The tragedy is 
being looked at from the angle of, "Oh, they weren't really going 
to surrender, so the government decided to storm the building." 
Consider, if you will, that maybe the government stormed the 
building because they knew that the Davidians actually *were* going 
to leave the building and surrender.
    Harder to destroy evidence if that had happened.

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