THE 25-YEAR SIEGE.

The article focuses on the Waco Branch Davidian Disaster of Texas in 1993, referencing its 25th anniversary. It states that a number of Branch Davidians and several federal officers died outside Waco on that day, and mentions involvement of Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Byron Sages about the incident. It notes that Branch Davidians, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group that believed that Judgment Day was imminent, had lived at Mount Carmel since 1959.