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releases of info via FOIA. )
Ever wonder what happened in
the Tillman case?
Who Ordered the Execution of NFL/Army Hero Pat
Tillman?
It’s almost too depressing to mention again, but let’s recap the Pat Tillman revelations from
Army medical examiners and internal Pentagon reports released last week and find
out what happens when famous football stars turned Army Heroes become
anti-war critics:* He was shot three times in
the forehead at close range with an American M-16.
* This was after he was
shot in the chest, legs and hand.
* And this was after he screamed to the
“friendlies” that he was Pat Tillman and please stop shooting him.
* But they
didn’t; they executed him.
* They were Americans.
* There wasn’t even an
“enemy” around; not only was nobody shot by “enemy fire,” no equipment was shot
by “enemy fire.”
* “Members of Tillman’s unit burned his body armor and
uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by friendly
fire.”
* Army medical examiners tried to get a criminal investigation opened,
but they were shut down.
* The Army brass who conspired to shut down any
criminal investigation into the U.S.
assassination of Pat Tillman sent “congratulatory e-mails” to each other after
shutting down the snoops.
* The Pentagon heavily promoted Tillman’s
enlistment and service as both a recruitment tool and a domestic propaganda
tool.
* The Pentagon maintained for long after his murder that Tillman died
in combat, finally admitting to his family that “friendly fire” killed him —
which wasn’t exactly true, either.
* Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, who
commanded Tillman’s base in Afghanistan at the time of his
assassination, dismissed Tillman’s family’s attempts to find out what happened.
Why? Because Pat Tillman was an atheist, like his family, so they were having “a
hard time letting it go.”
* In his writings — Tillman wrote constantly in
letters and diaries and e-mails — the NFL star who became an Army Ranger after
9/11 had concluded the Afghanistan War was fake and the Iraq War was a criminal
setup.
* The Pentagon still has his diary that he kept with him in
Afghanistan, where he was killed, and
they won’t release it to his family.
* Tillman had even arranged a meeting
with anti-war icon Noam Chomsky about how to go public with a
veterans-against-the-war movement.
* Such a movement would’ve had an
interesting effect on the Iraq Occupation and the then-upcoming 2004 election;
Tillman had already been encouraging his fellow soldiers to vote against
Bush.
* Just today, Donald Rumsfeld refused to testify on the subject of
Tillman’s assassination before Congress on Wednesday.
* White House Counsel
Fred Fielding has, of course, already “refused to issue certain documents to the
committee because of executive privilege.”
* What is the White House doing
with “certain documents” about Pat Tillman’s murder?
* Says Pat
Tillman Sr.: “The administration clearly was using this case for its own
political reasons. This cover-up started within minutes of Pat’s death, and it
started at high levels. This is not something that people in the field
do.”
Rumsfeld apparently refuses to testify at
hearing on death of Pat Tillman [Raw Story]
A Cover-Up At The
Highest Levels [Max Blumenthal]
Who Killed Pat Tillman? [Anti-War]
Punishments Coming in Tillman Case [Washington
Post]