03-27-2007, 10:32 PM
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Apocalypse Nerd
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This will probably be automerged but it seems that Astrocloud predicted this WAY before anyone else did. Tillman's mother doesn't rule out murder.
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Yet, at the memorial service for her son in May 2004, the military said Pat Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, she said.
"That was not a misstep, that was not an error," she said. "This was an attempt to dupe the public and to promote this war and to get recruitments up, and that is immoral."
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Shot intentionally?
Mary Tillman said she was not excluding the possibility that her son was shot intentionally.
"Pat was used," she said. "Once he was killed, I think they saw this as an opportunity." She noted that April 2004 was the worst month up to that time in the year-old Iraq war, and the shooting occurred right after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.
The latest investigation "only presented the points of view of the soldiers in the vehicle" who fatally shot her son and an Afghan soldier and wounded two others, she said.
"They never brought into play what the other witnesses said," Mary Tillman said.
She described as "shocking" the military's claim that no rules of engagement were broken.
The platoon members "fired at soldiers who weren't firing at them in areas where hands were waving and at a building," she said. "All of those things are breaking rules of engagement."
The soldier believed to have shot her son three times in the head was asked whether he had made a positive identification of the target before firing, she said. "This soldier said, 'No, I wanted to be in a firefight,' " she said. "That was a definite breaking of the rules of engagement."
She said the military is still spinning the story for its own gain.
"The first investigative officer, in his statement to the third investigative officer, said in his opinion, there was evidence of criminal intent, and he also used the term 'criminal negligence,' " Tillman said.
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