Not only Tillman, but LaVena Lynn Johnson's death is questionable

[burrowowl]

Please go here for information and to sign a petition for the investigation of her death in Iraq.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/58151/

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. I completely forgot about this case. It smells like another cover-up murder.

[burrowowl]

2. It does doesn't it,

I wonder how many more there are?

[Nikki Stone1]

3. It sounds like she was beaten and her father thinks she was raped.

The army's attitude was unforgivable.

http://www.kmov.com/news/asseenonnews4/stories/kmov_localnews_070221_lavenajohnson.229c4b1a.html


...In documents and autopsy photos obtained by the Johnson family and shared with News 4, more questions are raised than answered. One strange fact was that Lavena was apparently abused, physically, and the autopsy didn't address the physical trauma to her body.Military documents also show no apparent indication of suicide, her company commander wrote that Johnson was clearly happy and healthy physically and emotionally, something her mother knew by a phone conversation the day before she died.


Johnson's parents also question how their daughter at 5’1”, could handle a 40 inch M-16 to kill herself while sitting. In fact, a military laboratory even concluded that based on a gunshot residue test, Johnson may not have even handled the weapon. Additionally, Johnson's military debit card was never found, even though she used it two hours before her death to buy candy. No bullet was ever found where she died, and a trail of blood is seen in photos outside the tent. Even stranger, it appears as if someone tried to set her body on fire.


So if it wasn't a suicide as the Army maintains, then how did Lavena Johnson die?


Based on the autopsy photos, her father believes that she was raped.


The military is unconvinced and consider the case closed.....

[Maat]

7. Oh, that is so sad.

I heard via the grapevine (I sometimes volunteer for Veterans for Peace) that one family opened the casket (I'm not sure they were even supposed to have this opportunity), and found limbs inside that clearly weren't their child's.

And, a military veteran told me she suspects that a few women died rather than go out of the building to the bathroom, fearing rape. One (reportedly) literally died in her bed.

These stories aren't coming to me from incredible crackpots, but rather from credible veterans who glumly tell me that we don't know a tenth of what is going on over there (in Iraq and Afghanistan).

Lies, lies, lies; that's all I get from my government anymore!

[CGowen]

11. Karpinksi told this

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/57/17327

Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.

[malaise]

12. Yes this is another suspicious death

K & R

[EFerrari]

4. Good call. K&R

[Corgigal]

5. also ..Sgt. Sameer Abdel Monem Rateb

Rateb’s mother, Elizabeth Howell of Summerville, S.C., told The Press of Atlantic City on Thursday that her son was found hanged — with his hands bound behind his back with flex cuffs — the day he was supposed to leave for the United States.


http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=264456

Some wicked shit is happening over there.

[burrowowl]

6. Sounds like homocide to me

Thanks for info.

[burrowowl]

8. KICK! for Tilman and LaVena!

[defendandprotect]

9. When we have heads of our govt calling for TORTURE such brutalities will follow -- !!!

[shance]

10. Kick for LaVena

n/t

[burrowowl]

13. Thanks shance!

Kick again for LaVena!