1.   Federal agents bathed the cult compound with bright lights and played tapes of previous negotiations over loudhailers early yesterday in efforts to end the siege.

2.   Another new element was how the FBI accelerated its insertion of tear gas into the cult compound faster than anyone in Washington had anticipated.

3.   But he and his superiors had tangled in recent months over the handling of evidence recovered from the cult compound after the tear-gassing and the deadly fire that followed.

4.   Police buses and vans lined the narrow country roads around the cult compound.

5.   The bombing occurred on the second anniversary of the attack on the cult compound outside Waco, Texas.

6.   The police cars started pulling into the cult compound.

7.   A huge media contingent looked on as the raids began with police using mechanical saws to cut their way into the prefabricated buildings of the cult compound.

8.   At Kamikuishiki, police used mechanical saws to cut their way into the prefabricated buildings of the cult compound.

9.   But daily searches of cult compounds over the past month turned up tons of chemicals and equipment that could have been used to make sarin.

10.   But police daily searches of cult compounds over the past month have turned up tons of chemicals and equipment that could have been used to produce the deadly gas.