Two soldiers shot in the head at Bagram in Afghanistan, doing payroll?

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http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2007/10/lying-liars-2-s.html

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But the most impossible thing that has become possible came with the death and story about Ciara Durkin, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

CBS/AP) Exactly how Ciara Durkin died remains a mystery. The Army National Guard soldier from Massachusetts was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in Afghanistan last week, and now her family is demanding answers from the military. Initially the Pentagon reported that Durkin, part of a finance unit deployed to Afghanistan in November 2006, had been killed in action, but then revised its statement to read she had died of injuries “suffered from a non-combat related incident” at Bagram Airfield. The statement had no specifics and said the circumstances are under investigation. Durkin had a desk job doing payroll in an office about three miles inside the secure Bagram Air Base. About 90 minutes after she left work last Friday, her family says she was found dead near a chapel on the base with a single gunshot wound to the head.

The reason my head went a-spinnin’ at the news is that it sounded horribly familiar. Juan Torres’ son John was also shot in the head, at Bagram, and John was…part of a finance unit. Doing payroll.

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http://www.nationinstitute.org/ifunds/15/it_s_easy_for_soldiers_to_score_heroin_in_afghanistan

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At the Bagram Bazaar, as I stood waiting for the teen courier to return with my order, I compared shopping for junk in Afghanistan in 2007 to shopping for junk in 2006. In May of 2006, I had toured the shops for the first time with Juan Torres and Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi, who served as guide and translator. Juan Torres' son, Spc. John Torres, was found dead of a gunshot wound while serving at Bagram in July of 2004. At the time Spc. Torres' family, and some members of his unit, believed he may have been killed for speaking out about heroin use on base. John's death turned out to be attributable to another cause, which became the subject of the film I am now completing, but his accusations about the ready availability of heroin, and similar claims by other Bagram soldiers, had prompted me to investigate how heroin was making its way to U.S. soldiers.

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Drug-related Murders in the Military or something else?
by MichiganGirl
Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 12:59:09 AM PDT

While reading the comments in Ekaterin's excellent dairy Slain Soldier Feared 'Something Might Happen to Her', I was struck by a comment thread about Afghanistan's heroin trade.

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So off I went to the google, because I had intended to find links to the articles that I had read, and post them in that comment thread... Only I think I may have found something else:

Apparently this seems to be a reoccurring theme at Bagram Airfield. It seems Bagram Airfield has a bit of a heroin problem.

Another coincidence is that Spc. Durkin isn't the only Spc. that had reported things they didn't like at Bagram, only to end up with a bullet in their head under suspicious circumstances.

The circumstances surrounding Spc. Juan Torres' death at Bagram Airfield in 2004 seem eerily *similar to Spc. Durkin's.

As usual, Seymour Hersh was on top of the storie WAY before anyone else. The man is rather amazing isn't he? Sy Hersh is a National Treasure.

I am now wondering if Spc. Durkin and Spc. Torres deaths were drug-related murders, or is it possible that Spc. Durkin stumbled upon whatever it was that got Spc. Torres killed in 2004? I've tried to find more information about Spc. Torres' death on the google, but there really isn't much from sources that seem very credible.


more...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/4/3292/84543

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