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Branch Davidian sect are surrounded by heavily armed agents. They seem to have a great deal of firepower up there, including armed personnel carriers, Bradley fighting vehicles, even the Black Horse helicopters, which were made famous during the Gulf War.

So there's certainly the capacity there to use an overwhelming show of force.

It's the morning of March 23rd, 1993.

Livingston Fagan opens his eyes.

This 34-year-old, born in Jamaica, raised in Nottingham, educated in Berkshire, a husband, a father,

wakes up for another day under siege at Mount Carmel.

The cult members and the cult members are no longer able to call out to journalists.

Shards of light come through the boarded up windows around him, the walls punctured by the shooting.

The bodies of six of his friends

still lying in another room. Outside, a massive US paramilitary police force stood with their

sights trained on every exit. His life had been a long road to Mount carmel to david the messiah who this morning would ask

livingston something he wasn't ready for well on the morning i think it was the 23rd. I had this

overriding sense that

something was going to happen to me.

It was pleasant,

but unpleasant.

And then

somebody knocked on the door and

I was in one of the rooms downstairs and said

David wanted to talk to me.

I went up there.

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