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ＡＰ通信は７月２７日、元アメフトのスター選手で「対テロ戦争」の“英雄”、パット・ティルマン氏の死因について、９メートル前後の至近距離からＭ１６自動小銃で撃たれた可能性がある、と報じた。
遠くにいたのでアフガンのゲリラと誤認してしまい、味方と気付かず発射してしまった、とするペンタゴンの公式発表のシナリオを崩す、意図的な「射殺説」の「根拠」がついに浮上した。
ＡＰ通信がペンタゴンの２３００ページに及ぶ、ペンタゴンの関係文書を、情報自由法に基づき入手。
分析した結果、ティルマン氏の遺体を検死した医師が、遺体の銃痕の間隔が遠方からの射撃にしては狭すぎることに気付き、９メートル前後の至近距離からの銃撃による可能性があると証言していた事実を掘り起こした。
ティルマン氏は９・１１のあと、テロとの戦いに志願、陸軍のレンジャー部隊に加わり、イラクに出征したあと、アフガンに回って軍務に就いていた。
本ブログが既報したように、ティルマン氏は２００４年にアフガン山中で友軍に射殺される前、一時帰国した際、反戦運動のリーダーであるチョムスキー氏に電話を入れるなど、「対テロ戦争」に疑いを持ち始めていた。
その矢先の「友軍誤射」とあって、ペンタゴンが「平和の英雄」になりかけたテイルマン氏を抹殺した、との疑いが出ていた。
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/27/2819/print/
Published on Friday, July 27, 2007 by the Associated Press
Was Pat Tillman Murdered? AP Gets New Documents
by Martha Mendoza
SAN FRANCISCO ― Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
“The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,” a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman’s comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed. The Pentagon eventually ruled that Tillman’s death at the hands of his comrades was a friendly-fire accident.
The medical examiners’ suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Among other information contained in the documents:
* In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.”
* Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
* The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman’s death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn’t recall details of his actions.
* No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene - no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.
The Pentagon and the Bush administration have been criticized in recent months for lying about the circumstances of Tillman’s death. The military initially told the public and the Tillman family that he had been killed by enemy fire. Only weeks later did the Pentagon acknowledge he was gunned down by fellow Rangers.
With questions lingering about how high in the Bush administration the deception reached, Congress is preparing for yet another hearing next week.
The Pentagon is separately preparing a new round of punishments, including a stinging demotion of retired Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger Jr., 60, according to military officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the punishments under consideration have not been made public.
In more than four hours of questioning by the Pentagon inspector general’s office in December 2006, Kensinger repeatedly contradicted other officers’ testimony, and sometimes his own. He said on some 70 occasions that he did not recall something.
At one point, he said: “You’ve got me really scared about my brain right now. I’m really having a problem.”
Tillman’s mother, Mary Tillman, who has long suggested that her son was deliberately killed by his comrades, said she is still looking for answers and looks forward to the congressional hearings next week.
“Nothing is going to bring Pat back. It’s about justice for Pat and justice for other soldiers. The nation has been deceived,” she said.
The documents show that a doctor who autopsied Tillman’s body was suspicious of the three gunshot wounds to the forehead. The doctor said he took the unusual step of calling the Army’s Human Resources Command and was rebuffed. He then asked an official at the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division if the CID would consider opening a criminal case.
“He said he talked to his higher headquarters and they had said no,” the doctor testified.
Also according to the documents, investigators pressed officers and soldiers on a question Mrs. Tillman has been asking all along.
“Have you, at any time since this incident occurred back on April 22, 2004, have you ever received any information even rumor that Cpl. Tillman was killed by anybody within his own unit intentionally?” an investigator asked then-Capt. Richard Scott.
Scott, and others who were asked, said they were certain the shooting was accidental.
Investigators also asked soldiers and commanders whether Tillman was disliked, whether anyone was jealous of his celebrity, or if he was considered arrogant. They said Tillman was respected, admired and well-liked.
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