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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-10 08:31 PM
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14. Apparently you aren't too familiar with facts...
"Two of the eight listed were civilian employees, four of the eight died BEFORE the incident happened"

The story I linked to only mentions SIX, did you not read the link and you're just blathering on in an uninformed fashion or do you just have have comprehension and/or retention problems? I will concede though, that it's correct that 2 of them shouldn't be on that list and did in fact die before the incident. Something to note, however, is that they were both pilots. Could they have been killed so they could be replaced?


"and only one of them committed suicide"

Again, did you read the article, or do you just have comprehension/retention problems?

"Then there are two reported suicides, which both occurred within days of the flight. One involved Todd Blue, a 20-year-old airman who was in a unit that guarded weapons at Minot. He reportedly shot himself in the head on Sept. 11 while on a visit to his family in Wytheville, Virginia. Local police investigators termed his death a suicide.

The second suicide, on Aug. 30, was John Frueh, a special forces weather commando at the Air Force’s Special Operations command headquartered at Hurlburt AFB in Florida. Hurlburt’s website says, “Every night, as millions of Americans sleep peacefully under the blanket of freedom,” Air Force Special Operations commandos work “in deep dark places, far away from home, risking their lives to keep that blanket safe.”

Frueh, 33, a married father of two who had just received approval for promotion from captain to major, reportedly flew from Florida to Portland, Oregon, for a friend’s wedding. He never showed up. Instead, he called on Aug. 29, the day the missiles were loaded, from an interstate pull-off just outside Portland to say he was going for a hike in a park nearby. (It is not clear why he was at a highway rest stop as he had no car.) A day later, back in Portland, he rented a car at the airport, again calling his family. After he failed to appear at the wedding, his family filed a missing person’s report with the Portland police. The Sheriff’s Department in remote Skamania County, Washington, found Frueh’s rental car ten days later on the side of a road nearly 120 miles from the airport in a remote area of Badger Peak. Search dogs found his body in the woods. His death was ruled a suicide, though neither the sheriff’s investigator nor the medical examiner would give details. What makes this alleged suicide odd, however, is that the sheriff reports that Frueh had with him a knapsack containing a GPS locator and a videocam — odd equipment for someone intent on ending his life."


Are you saying one of these two wasn't a suicide, but a murder? Are you all blather with no backup? Is that why you couldn't/wouldn't post links to your assertions?




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