FILM TRAILER - How They Lied When Pat Tillman Died

Film trailer is at the bottom of the story.  This is a 1-minute clip of Kevin Tillman's testimony before Congress.

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It's been 8 years since Pat Tillman’s assassination in Afghanistan.  On April 22, 2004 Tillman and several other Army Rangers were given an odd order to split their motorized squad and proceed toward a village called Magarah. The original mission was to recover a broken-down Humvee from a rocky and almost impassable trail through a steep gorge. The Humvee was being towed by a local “jinga” truck, rather than by one of the working Humvees. Tillman and the others got to the village before the guys with the towed Humvee and were waiting for them when three Afghan kids fired an RPG, with an effective range of 250 yards, from 800 yards. It hit on the wall of the gorge and made some noise and loosened up some dirt and rocks. But, no harm done. Nevertheless, the vaunted Rangers lost control of themselves and fired their arsenal of a .50 caliber Browning, 40mm grenade machine gun, .30 caliber machine guns and .223 caliber machine guns plus their small .223 rifles, called M-4s. They fired until they were out of ammo and had to get into their reserve ammo supply.

Tillman and the other guys were watching this show from above. Tillman’s sergeant, Matthew Weeks, ordered him and Bryan O’Neal and an Afghan named Thani to go down on foot closer to the road, which they did. The lead Humvee came within view of Tillman and from a range of about one hundred feet, opened up on him and the two others, killing the Afghan and wounding Tillman after he waved his arms at them not to shoot. They dove behind a couple of one-foot high rocks and O’Neal asked if he was okay. One of Tillman’s legs was severely wounded. He threw a purple smoke grenade to show they were Americans and kept yelling at the nearby Humvee shooters. Both Tillman and O’Neal waved their arms at the Humvee. The Rangers in the Humvees stopped shooting for a minute. Tillman and O’Neal thought it was safe to show themselves.

Tillman identified himself loudly, saying “Hold your fire! I’m Pat f****** Tillman!” Specialist Trevor Alders opened up again with his .223 machine gun and hit Pat Tillman from about one hundred feet away. Now, both Tillman and O’Neal were in the same uniforms as the other Rangers, wearing the distinctive Kevlar helmets, carrying the same M-4 rifles. The Humvee guys knew that the other guys were up ahead and still they did this.

Here’s where it gets strange. The autopsy photos supposedly show three .223 holes in Tillman’s forehead, in a two- to three-inch group. 

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The Tillman Story - Official Trailer

Tonight's presidential foreign policy debate reminds us that it's been 8 years since Pat Tillman's assassination in Afghanistan.

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Gen. McChrystal And The Pat Tillman Coverup

Comments

[SKINFLINT]

This article asserts that Noam Chomsky is a CIA operative. Have never heard this before as most of the time he is considered a lefty. Just sayin.

[DailyBail]

Good catch, I had forgotten that. Here's the snip:

Tillman had naively made contact with the CIA’s Noam Chomsky to discuss his plans to reveal what he knew about the lies of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in the War on Terror. He was apparently also angry about the US Army’s support of the Afghan opium trade, started up by the army after the Taliban had eradicated it one hundred percent during their four-year reign. The US Army authorized the Northern Alliance to resume poppy production, according to Fox News shortly after we invaded Afghanistan.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/22/jb-campbell-killing-pat-tillman/

[SKINFLINT]

DB, That is the article that I read that seemed to have suggested that. I have never seen that in print at all and am kind of astonished actually. Has anyone else seen that at all?

[DailyBail]

Gen. McChrystal And The Pat Tillman Coverup

http://dailybail.com/home/gen-mcchrystal-and-the-pat-tillman-coverup.html

[DailyBail]

Skin

Given how Chomsky has fought publicly against the CIA throughout his career, it is surprising to hear that allegation. And no, I have never heard it before, to answer your question.

[throb]

Yil,am 190'd me on my assumptions abot soldiers and patriotism when his perhaps baiting the MIB quip , while in Iraq, "This war is f*cking illegal".And like more than you can count body counts of other mysterious deaths, including Deborah Palfrey, FBI Agent John Kelley, the flight crew and flight managers involved in the missing nuke from the hush hushed never to be spoken Minot to Barksdale AFBs B52 flight, including John Wheeler II (ya'd think some og them foreign base security contractors would show up DOA - but nooooo!), and the RNC primary structure's fraudulent treasonous treatment of Dr Paul there be part an' parcel of a hole lot of crime and "zero punishment" infesting the halls of government and media partying like it was 2000 all over again dad-nab-it by cracky!

[Insidious]

A cover up during the Bush years! GEE, oh no, not Bush. Heaven for bid. Where is Fox News on this one. Fox only covers Obama cover ups. I have to call Steve Douchie about this one.