[Shadow_Group] (WashingtonPost) In the Kill Zone: The Unnecessary Death of Pat Tillman

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120604Y.shtml
 
Communication breakdown, split platoon among the factors contributing to 'friendly fire'
 
It ended on a stony ridge in fading light. Spec. Pat Tillman lay dying behind a boulder. A young fellow U.S. Army Ranger stretched prone beside him, praying quietly as tracer bullets poured in.
  "Cease fire! Friendlies!" Tillman cried out.

  Smoke drifted from a signal grenade Tillman had detonated minutes before in a desperate bid to show his platoon members they were shooting the wrong men. The firing had stopped. Tillman had stood up, chattering in relief. Then the machine gun bursts erupted again.

  "I could hear the pain in his voice," recalled the young Ranger days later to Army investigators. Tillman kept calling out that he was a friendly, and he shouted, "I am Pat [expletive] Tillman, damn it!" His comrade recalled: "He said this over and over again until he stopped."

  Myths shaped Pat Tillman's reputation, and mystery shrouded ........... Continues http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120604Y.shtml




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