Reply #27: An AF Brig Gen, intent on suicide, shoots himself in the chest? That's odd.

[Peace Patriot]

It's reminiscent of David Kelly--a top scientist--slitting one wrist (minor artery) and then bleeding to death all night, out in the rain under a tree near his home. Their type of suicide is a poor fit to either man.

A further oddity (of many) with Kelly is that he had been IDed as the notorious BBC whistleblower on the "sexed up" pre-war intel, and had been interrogated at a "safe house" and threatened with the Official Secrets Act. The Blair gov't then outed his name to the press, and sent him home without protection and apparently without surveillance. It is not believable that he wasn't being watched. And so, where were his watchers as he bled to death all night, outdoors near his home?

Same week as the Plame outing. Plame outed 7/14/03. Kelly found dead 7/18/03. His office and computers were searched. Then Novak additionally outed the entire Brewster-Jennnings WMD counter-proliferation network 7/22/03.

I don't recall the dates of the nukes on the runway story. I'm going to look it up right now. Could they have been connected to a possible Rumsfeld manufacture of a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident re Iran (the British sailors crisis), in the same month as Rumsfeld's resignation (Dec 06)?

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Just looked it up. The cross-country nuke tour from Minot was Aug 07. So it doesn't seem directly related to Rumsfeld's resignation (and top period of danger for nuking of Iran, which I think was during the British sailors' incident--Dec 06). However, there have been MANY irregularities and incidents re nukes at that base. This site has a list of them, for further study: http://www.legitgov.org/minot_afb_nukes_oddities.html