Waco Paradigm And The Church Of The Nativity
by Carol A. Valentine
Curator, Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
http://www.Public-Action.com
Copyright, April, 2002
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April 7, 2002 -- Yesterday a friend called and asked: "Have you
noticed the similarities between the siege of the Church of the
Nativity and what happened in Waco? The same scenario is being
played out."
He reminded me of unfolding events, even as this is being written:
helicopter gunships flying over a church, tanks running around
outside, complete control of the "news" reports on the situation,
"gunmen" inside who hold "hostages," the inexplicable release of some
of these hostages who tell their stories to the "authorities" and the
puppet news media, etc., etc.
Indeed, why should we be surprised at the similarities? The man who
directed the Waco Holocaust is the very man who now directs USrael's
War of Terror. I'm talking about Charlie-Manson-Wrapped-In
The-Amerikan-Flag. I'm talking about a four-star piece of human
trash.
I'M TALKING ABOUT GEN. "WACO WAYNE" DOWNING.
Waco Wayne is a former commander of the Special Operations Command,
which was made
a separate command within the US military as a result of legislation
introduced by then Sen. William Cohen. Special Ops is Usrael's team
of gleeful assassins -- helter skelter in uniform.
During the Waco Holocaust, Gen. Downing -- A West Point graduate --
was commander of Special Ops. Downing and his men operated behind
the civilian facades of the ATF and the FBI, pretending the junket
was "law enforcement" gone wrong.
Back in 1993, the Special Operations 160th Special Operations
Aviation Regiment (Airborne) had exclusive use of the signature black
helicopters.
See "The Black Army, and "A Death Cult Wears Black," at:
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/page/w_g.html
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/page/w_ga.html
It was Special Ops helicopters, not "National Guard" helicopters,
that strafed the women's and children's quarters in the Mt. Carmel
Center on February 28, 1993, killing an unknown number by shooting
through the wooden roof of the Mt. Carmel Center.
Waco Wayne's brazen defiance of public witness in his handling of
April 19, 1993 almost ruined his murderous career. TV cameras picked
one up of the Special Ops arsonists casually watching the fire from a
rooftop, casually jumping off a roof and landing on his feet,
casually taking off a fire hood, and casually walking to awaiting
tanks.
Other TV cameras captured tanks pushing crime scene evidence at the
burning Mt. Carmel Center into the fire. Yet other TV cameras picked
up soldiers with flame throwers on the grounds of the Mt. Carmel
Center.
Linda Thompson put this footage into her Waco videos, and her videos
caused an uproar all over the US. The footage contained in Linda's
videos left the official Waco fall-guy -- Janet Reno -- severely
embarrassed. Downing's subsequent and consistent lying to Reno and
the DoJ concerning the details of the massacre created a groundswell
of resentment against him. Reno and others successfully forced Waco
Wayne's retirement.
On March 1, 1996, the Tampa Tribune published an article on the
retirement of Downing and the installation of his successor, Hugh
Shelton: "MacDill Special Forces Chief Installed."
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/doc/w_doc11.html
(I wrote a piece about the matter at the time -- you may be able to
find it in the Usenet archives. Search for "four-star piece of
trash".)
The Washington Post ran a puff piece on Downing last fall, describing
him as "special advisor" to the President and the National Security
Council on terrorism. See "The Secret Warrior," which appeared in
the Style Section of the Washington Post on November 20, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55417-2001Nov19.html
(Text attached below.)
The Post article reminds us: "In the Panama invasion just before
Christmas 1989, Downing oversaw the toppling of Manuel Noriega."
Recall that Downing killed thousands of Panamanians in indiscriminate
bombing and strafing runs (see video "Panama Deception.")
http://www.empowermentproject.org/panama.htm
Recall that when Noriega sought refuge in the Papal Nunciature,
Downing blasted the building for three days with skull-numbing, high
volume rock-n'roll.
Recall that during the Waco siege, Downing blasted David Koresh and
those loyal to him with the same high-volume noise torture.
Now chances are very good Downing is helping direct an attack on the
Church of the Nativity, said to have been built over the birthplace
of Jesus Christ.
You can rest assured of one thing: Downing will never attack a synagogue.
When you read "The Secret Warrior," notice the following: The Post
tells us Waco Wayne declined to be interviewed for the November 20
article, and quotes an anonymous National Security Council spokesman:
"He doesn't want publicity and in fact he's trying to avoid it."
What a laugh! Of course Downing wanted the article. He facilitated
it. He had his mom and his best buddy talk to the Post for him.
That gives him the best of both worlds: His story is out, yet he
maintains deniability.
Old Ma Downing talks about how poor she was, trying to bring up her
little killer on a World War II widow's pension. Then Waco Wayne's
best buddy, Jim Kimsey, speaks up.
The Post describes Jim Kimsey as "Downing's friend for more than 40
years, a fellow West Point grad and Ranger, and co-founder of
Amerca-on-Line."
Repeat: Waco Wayne's best buddy co-founded America-on-Line.
The Post writes about Kimsey: "Classical music fills the posh
office. Jim Kimsey speaks quietly, even when he's talking about
killing." Kimsey is "a dashing figure at 62, much like Downing, a
fellow Ranger he calls his kindred soul."
Hey, these killers are classy, trim, elegant, and refined, get it?
They're not all crippled up and they don't shout like Dr. Strangelove
when talking about mass murder . . .
The Post goes on to say: "He [Kimsey] has offered Downing his views
on hunting down Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. The
politicians and war planners need to act more like their enemy,
Kimsey advised."
Now that is one true statement! Osama bin Laden deplores the
slaughter of women and children, saying Islam strictly forbids it,
even in the heat of battle. See:
http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html
But that's not what Kimsey is talking about. Kimsey WANTS Downing to
slaughter women and children.
"'I told Wayne, 'I'm going to send all these guys [in charge] a copy
of The Godfather,' ... You've got to think like the Mafia thinks.
No, it isn't going to be fair. You're going to whack 'em at home.
You're going to do stuff to their families. You've got to play
dirty. You've got to get in bed with dirty people ... Wayne knows
how to think like that."
You bet Waco Wayne knows how to whack 'em at home and "do stuff" to
their families. Waco Wayne and his apes whacked Davidian Rosemary
Morrison and did "stuff" to her 7-year old daughter, Melissa.
Here is 7-year old Melissa Morrison in life:
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/74/74_aut.html
And here is a picture of Melissa after Waco Wayne and his apes did
"stuff" to her.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/74/74_pix.html
and 6-year old Crystal Martinez, after Waco Wayne's people did "stuff" to her.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/57/57_pix.html
Notice that Kimsey attributes to Christian Italians the despicable
actions of "whacking" family members? Sorry, that's not an Italian
habit. On the other hand, Talmudic Israelis, for whom Waco Wayne has
been working for years, are given to exactly that. Read the bloody
history of the state of Israel and its butchery of Palestinian
families. Remember Dier Yassin, and the Sabra and Shantila Massacres?
http://www.abbc.com/islam/english/toread/massac2.htm
(Or if you want to go back further, try the Book of Joshua in the Old
Testament, wherein the ancient Hebrews slaughtered every living thing
in Canaan, every man, every woman, every child -- all with de Lawd's
blessing, of course.)
Notice that the Post has Kimsey mouth Downing's policy of murdering
mothers and children, rather than having Downing do it. Kimsey
pretends that he is recommending a course of action his friend has
not already embraced. That's deniability for you.
So that's the crowd now running USrael's War of Terrorism. And
that's the crowd making war on the Church of the Nativity. You
don't suppose they'd burn the Church of the Nativity down too, then
say the Palestinians did it? Will they sent up the signature Special
Ops fireball, as they did in Waco?
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fire.html
After all, April 19 is coming up.
No, just kidding . . .
====
The Secret Warrior
Gen. Wayne Downing, From West Point to White House
By Richard Leiby
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 20, 2001; Page C01
The West Point pep rally is going full bore: band music, a bonfire,
bellicose chants of "Beat Navy, Beat Navy." Helicopters swoop in
ferrying Army Rangers, the lightning-fast troops famed for leaping
into hostile territory.
For this annual display of fighting spirit before the Army-Navy game,
elite units often roll in to impress the wide-eyed cadets. Tonight
the Rangers will show off their "fast rope training," dropping 80
feet from the sky like human smart bombs, amid simulated artillery
blasts.
It's November 1995, and this rally will radiate in West Point legend.
Wayne Allan Downing, Class of '62, is part of the camouflaged
fast-rope squad. The crowd explodes when the four-star general later
reveals himself in the spotlight. Though headed for retirement, the
old warrior still has it. Rangers lead the way.
- - -
Wayne Downing is the most famous terrorism fighter you've never heard
of. Less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, he shelved his
semi-retirement to coordinate the nation's far-flung campaign "to
detect, disrupt and destroy global terrorist organizations and those
who support them," as the White House put it. He has the president's
ear -- but whatever he's saying is not for public consumption. Even
the size of his staff has been deemed a national security secret.
As a young Ranger, Downing, now 61, learned to stalk the enemy at
night and capture rattlesnakes for food. In 34 years he rose through
the ranks to command all special operations troops, including the
clandestine Delta Force commandos whose close-quarter tactics are
vital in places like Afghanistan. Battle-tested in Vietnam, Panama
and the Persian Gulf, Downing is revered among the elite soldiers who
call themselves "the quiet professionals."
He reports to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Homeland
Security Director Tom Ridge. He has more experience with terrorism
than either of them. His unwieldy title is national director and
deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism. Those who
admire Downing would suggest a more concise one: the president's
secret weapon.
"They brought him in because he knows how to get things done," says
L. Paul Bremer, the State Department's ambassador at large for
counterterrorism during the Reagan administration. "The bureaucracy
very often needs a very good kick in the pants. He's going to have to
crack some heads together."
"He has a tremendous network," says former Defense Intelligence
Agency director James R. Clapper Jr. "I am kind of the president of
the Wayne Downing Fan Club."
"He is an icon in the special operations world," says Andrew Levene,
a former Ranger sergeant who served under Downing's command. "He is
the consummate warrior. He is the guy who will say, 'We have to hunt
these people down and kill 'em.' "
"If you called Central Casting you couldn't find a better person to
fill this job," says Jim Kimsey, Downing's friend for more than 40
years. A fellow West Point grad and Ranger, Kimsey left the Army
after eight years and went on to co-found America Online.
"Wayne stuck it out, thank God for us all," he says, "and went on to
be our head snake eater."
A Prescient Warning
Downing would not grant an interview. "He doesn't want publicity and
in fact he's trying to avoid it," says a spokesman for the National
Security Council.
"He's been that way all his life," says his mother, Eileen Downing.
"Very close-mouthed. He would say, 'To keep a secret you don't tell
one other person, Mother.' "
But for brief periods he has ventured into the limelight, usually to
sound the alarm about terrorism. Since leaving the Army in 1996, he
has served on task forces investigating how terrorists operate and
urging heightened security.
"They and their state sponsors have begun an undeclared war on the
United States," he wrote in an August 1996 review of the
truck-bombing of the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Saudi
Arabia that killed 19 and wounded hundreds more. "They must be seen
as 'soldiers' employing different means of achieving their political
and military goals. They wear uniforms we cannot recognize and use
tactics that we find repugnant and cowardly . . . Fanatics will be
prepared to sacrifice their lives to achieve their goals."
Downing also war-gamed a scenario that exposed America's
vulnerability to chemical and biological attacks. It foresaw
terrorists releasing chemical agents with crop-dusting planes. Carl
Stiner, a fellow retired general, recalled that he and Downing
delivered their findings to the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 1997.
On Sept. 12, 2001, Downing was on ABC, explaining to viewers of
"Nightline" the notion of "asymmetric" warfare: These foes, though
small in number, knew exactly how to exploit the weaknesses of the
strongest nation on Earth. "The paradigm has changed," he said. "And
this isn't going to be over in a month or two months or six months.
But this may well take years."
ABC quickly signed him up as an on-air consultant. These days Downing
wears his gray hair slightly longer than when he was a West Point
plebe; on camera he looked a bit uncomfortable, his neck tightly
cinched in a button-down shirt. But his authority was obvious.
"We're going to find out where they are," he said of the
perpetrators. "And then we're going to go get them."
It was no saber-rattling act. He made it sound like his destiny.
Downing once was courted for the job of White House drug czar, but
friends say he felt that was an unwinnable war. He later vowed he
wouldn't return to the government unless there were a national
emergency. He preferred to stay in Colorado, enjoying the fishing and
skiing, the time with his wife and grandkids. He also had enough land
for four hefty Labradors.
But on Oct. 9, he reenlisted for public service, leaving the army of
TV talking heads and giving up his seat on the board of an Australian
high-tech weapons firm, Metal Storm, which boasts of inventing a gun
that can fire a million rounds a minute. And he put aside another of
his passions: serving as military adviser to a group of Iraqi
dissidents who have been hoping for years to depose dictator Saddam
Hussein.
He was no longer interested in media attention. He spoke for a minute
and a half at the news conference announcing his White House post
before concluding, "It's going to be a tough fight, but we will
prevail. Thank you very much."
Then he exited to the shadows.
Living History
As a boy in Peoria, Ill., Downing was steeped in tales of military
heroism. His mother would read to him from the newspaper about the
progress of the war against Germany and Japan. He listened to radio
reports. "He knew where everybody was and who commanded them. He was
totally fascinated by the military stuff," recalls Eileen Downing,
now 80.
Though very young, Wayne had a compelling reason to pay attention:
His father was fighting his way across Europe. Pfc. Francis Wayne
"Bud" Downing served in the storied 9th Armored Division, which on
March 7, 1945, crossed the Rhine via a railroad bridge at Remagen,
ushering the American juggernaut into the heart of the German Reich.
In Peoria and elsewhere, the headlines surged with optimism: Hitler
would soon be finished. "The war is over, I tell you," one general
assured his colleagues. "The war is over."
On March 27, Wayne's father participated in a night attack to
liberate a camp full of starving POWs near Limburg. The unit suffered
heavy casualties -- including 25-year-old Pfc. Downing -- in what was
its last major engagement of World War II.
He was buried in the Netherlands. His son was not yet 5.
Raising Wayne and his two younger sisters, Eileen Downing insisted on
discipline and structure -- regular churchgoing and mealtimes. "We
did all the same things just like when a father came home in the
evening," she recalls. "Except there was no father."
Survivor benefits barely kept the family fed. "You had pennies in
your hand at the end of the month," she says.
Across the street lived Joe Powers, sent home after being wounded in
the 101st Airborne. "He'd be sitting on his swing on his porch,
looking forlorn because there weren't any other young men around,"
says Eileen Downing. She sent her boy over to talk with Joe.
"They became best friends. He was Wayne's hero. He came home one day
and said, 'I know what I'm going to do, I'm going to jump out of
airplanes, just like Joe.' "
At 17, Wayne won automatic nomination to the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point as the son of a deceased veteran. He still had to meet the
academic and physical qualifications for appointment, which he did.
As a young company commander in Vietnam, Downing distinguished
himself in combat and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple
Heart. "The word is hero. Sure he's a hero," says a friend who asked
that his name not be used. "That was a bloody, bloody time frame. He
basically could have won a lot of Purple Hearts -- he got shot at a
lot."
But Downing never talked about his wounds. He'd rather tell jokes and
remember the esprit de corps, and whatever passed for good times.
Friends say he took his work very seriously but he never took himself
too seriously.
"We were all immediately captivated by him," recalls Gen. William
"Buck" Kernan, a company commander when Downing headed the 2nd Ranger
Battalion at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the late 1970s. "He came in very
young-looking, probably one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in
the Army at the time."
But Bill Lind, a defense specialist on the staff of then-Sen. Gary
Hart, wasn't impressed when he went to Fort Lewis to observe the
Rangers. He told Downing the training was too rigid, as if combat
unfolded according to a script. "That's training for an opera
company, not for war," Lind declared.
He expected a fistfight. "Everybody who goes to visit the Rangers
always says they're great. Here's a civilian who tells them they're
full of crap," Lind says. But Downing was open-minded. "He says,
'Tell me more. What do you think we should be doing?' "
Downing was known for dispensing with formula. "Think like a bank
robber" was his oft-quoted admonition.
"He recognized you had to harden yourself mentally and physically and
use guile and cunning," says Buck Kernan. "You had to always be ahead
of your adversary, you had to anticipate."
Rangers learn to endure hunger and sleep deprivation, to improvise
and surprise their enemies. Even today they hew to the standing
orders laid down by Maj. Robert Rogers in 1759, not long after he'd
organized ragtag colonials to fight in the French and Indian War.
Including this one:
"Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough to touch, then let
him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet."
Receiving Noriega
There's no shortage of PowerPoint soldiers at the Pentagon, but
Downing preferred a hands-on approach. That, along with devotion to
the troops, made him a legendary leader. He was based at Fort Bragg,
N.C., and then at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where he gained
the coveted job of commander in chief of the Special Operations
Command.
In the Panama invasion just before Christmas 1989, Downing oversaw
the toppling of Manuel Noriega. The dictator, wanted in this country
on drug charges, had holed up in the Papal Nunciature in Panama City
for 11 days, then sent out a request: He wanted to surrender wearing
his general's uniform. The Americans retrieved one, and Noriega
surrendered in the middle of the street -- to Downing himself.
During the Gulf War, hundreds of commandos working for Downing
infiltrated Iraq to find the Scud missiles that Saddam Hussein was
lobbing at Israel. Rick Atkinson's book "Crusade: The Untold Story of
the Persian Gulf War," reports that Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf had to
warn Downing not to get carried away and go behind enemy lines
himself.
"You work for me, you son of a #####," Schwarzkopf told Downing. "If
you personally go into Iraq, I'm going to relieve you."
"You don't have to tell me that," Downing shot back.
"I know you," said Schwarzkopf. "I don't want you going across that
border and getting yourself captured or killed. One, because it's an
embarrassment, and two, because you know too much."
How effective were Downing's secret Scud hunters? The CIA has never
confirmed that any of the weapons were destroyed. But retired Gen.
Carl Stiner credits the commandos with demobilizing the missiles,
calling Downing the man who "shut down the Scuds. . . . He
contributed immeasurably to the success of that war."
In October 1993, Downing was running the Special Operations Command
in Tampa when 18 American soldiers died during the disastrous effort
to capture warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed in Mogadishu, Somalia. The
four-star general, as chronicled in Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk
Down," briefly spoke with the on-the-ground commander, Maj. Gen.
William Garrison, but backed off, believing "the last thing his
friend needed at that moment was some desk jockey 13,000 miles away
looking over his shoulder."
Garrison took full responsibility for the outcome of the battle and
it destroyed his career. Within days, Downing arrived in Mogadishu to
check on the troops, "as any good commander would," says a friend. A
Somali militia was still shelling. A mortar round hit the Rangers'
airfield encampment, killing one soldier and seriously wounding a
dozen others.
That mortar almost killed Downing. "It was really close," the friend says.
Basic Training
March 2001: A cadre of Iraqi rebels descend on a training camp in
Texas. For five days they fire pistols, shotguns and Kalashnikov
rifles, and otherwise hone their combat and self-defense skills.
They are bitter foes of Saddam Hussein. Members of the Iraqi National
Congress, they dream of the day when they can march triumphantly into
Baghdad as a liberation army.
Their mentor -- and biggest cheerleader -- is Wayne Downing.
"This is the first time they are being trained to do anything on this
level," the former general tells a United Press International
reporter. But to Downing the weapons course, paid for by the United
States, is a "drop in the bucket." What the dissidents really need,
he says, is training on "antitank weapons, machine guns, rockets,
that sort of thing."
Downing has supported an insurrection in Iraq for several years,
arguing that Hussein's regime could be toppled if only America had
the guts to arm and support the Iraqi National Congress, a rebel
coalition based in London. Calling on influential lawmakers, Downing
helped win passage in 1998 of the Iraq Liberation Act, which set
aside nearly $100 million for military weaponry and training for
anti-Hussein warriors.
The idea of overthrowing Hussein had wide political support and
endorsements from people like Donald Rumsfeld, but was never fully
embraced by the Clinton White House. Some national security experts
and military analysts consider Downing's military plan half-baked: a
potential replay of the Bay of Pigs bloodbath in Cuba.
"I have had visits from the opposition groups, trying to convince me
that 1,000 men, armed, placed into Iraq, would have the entire regime
toppled; the regular army would fold," retired Marine Corps Gen.
Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf,
told a Senate hearing last year. Zinni clearly didn't buy it.
"Be careful," he said. "Bay of Pigs could turn into Bay of Goats."
Plotting Payback
Classical music fills the posh office. Jim Kimsey speaks quietly,
even when he's talking about killing.
White-haired and chiseled, Kimsey cuts a dashing figure at 62, much
like Downing, the fellow Ranger he calls his kindred soul. A
billionaire thanks to his business acumen, Kimsey today runs a
philanthropic foundation within sight of the Eisenhower Executive
Office Building, where his old buddy works.
He has offered Downing his views on hunting down Osama bin Laden and
the al Qaeda network. The politicians and war planners need to act
more like their enemy, Kimsey advised.
"I told Wayne, 'I'm going to send all these guys [in charge] a copy
of 'The Godfather.' . . . You've got to think like the Mafia thinks.
No, it isn't going to be fair. You're going to whack 'em at home.
You're going to do stuff to their families. You've got to play dirty.
You've got to get in bed with dirty people. . . . Wayne knows how to
think like that."
Downing, at least publicly, hasn't used the word dirty. Aggressive,
yes. Relentless, yes. "Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week,
365 days a year," he vowed the day he took the job, "we intend to
give these people and those who support them no place to hide."
Those who know Downing presume that he is gathering intelligence,
drawing up options, targeting the nests of snakes. Kimsey recites a
Ranger slogan: "The night belongs to us." Whatever happens, he
promises with a smile, "You're never gonna hear about it."
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
--
Carol A. Valentine
President, Public Action, Inc.
http://www.Public-Action.com
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