Murder In Afghanistan

I've heard it floated around that Pat Tillman may have been murdered. I've written it off for the most part. But it's now getting more difficult all the time to turn your head .....

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.

That, my friends, is the opening grafs of an AP story, not an email newsletter for the Tinfoil Hat Society. Some additional circumstancial evidence:

-- 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.

It's not hard to understand the angry by Mary Tillman. Not only did the Administration gin up her son's death for support of the war, but the evidence seems to point to him being killed by his "buddies". Kind of symbolic of the entire GWOT, eh?