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The
Voice of the White House
Washington,
D.C., October 29, 2009: “Much ado about nothing is the best phrase
to cover the hysterical, and totally inaccurate, descriptions we
find on the bloggers about the “dangers” of the new swine flu
vaccinations. According to the doom-criers, the vaccinations will
poison millions and are part of some weird plot to kill off
minorities or else something designed to control the population into
joining Scientology. Every year, over 50,000 Americans die from some
kind of flu. If you vaccinate a million people, a small percentage
of them will die. If you vaccinated them with orange juice, a small
percentage of them will die. So what? People drink a Coke for lunch
and drop dead in the restaurant parking lot. Shit happens and there
is no sinister plot involved here. This year, tens of thousands of
children have come down with the swine flu. A few have died and the
rest have survived. The problem here is that in 1918, a mild form of
swine flu swept across America, infecting millions, almost all of
whom recovered. A few months later, the next wave killed nearly
100,000,000 world wide. This could happen again (check out Google on
this if you don’t believe me) so getting a vaccination shot could
well save your life. If you feel that sinister forces are after you,
don’t get the flu shot and die. But be sure your kids get the
shots and be equally sure that you have plenty of life insurance so
the kids will be well-off…and probably better off without you.”
USA
v. Stewart D. Nozette
There have been four related cases of USA v. Stewart D.
Nozette stemming from his alleged national security transgressions
as a scientist with access to Top Secret/SCI information while
working for and contracting with several US government agencies,
among them the Department of Energy and the National Air and Space
Administration.
The most recent case, first below, has charged him with
espionage.
Another case, second below, was begun in 2008 and charged him
with fraud but indicated he was a cooperating witness against
unnamed others in an unidentified case.
The two cases paint a complex relationship between the US
government and Nozette, both parties working mightily to outfox the
other, making threats, offering inducements, breaking promises. The
USG death threat described below is the latest ploy. Entrapping
Nozette with a fake Mossad agent is another.
[USA
filed 28 October 2009. Excerpt]
Title 18 U.S.C. § 794(a) provides, in relevant part, “that
the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury or, if
there is no jury, the court, further finds that . . . the offense .
. . directly concerned . . . satellites, early warning systems,
or other means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack;
. . . communications intelligence or cryptographic information;
or any other major weapons system or major element of defense
strategy.” (Emphasis added) Accordingly, based on the specific
allegations in Count 2 of the Indictment, the maximum penalty the
defendant faces, if convicted, is death.
These are extremely serious charges that implicate the
national security of the United States. The government alleges that
the defendant attempted to transfer some of our nation’s most
guarded and sensitive secrets, to which he had been granted access
when he served in positions of trust for the United States. NOZETTE
delivered and communicated this classified information to an
individual he believed was an Israeli intelligence officer in
exchange for an alias, a foreign passport, and cash payments. The
government’s case against NOZETTE is exceptionally strong; the
defendant was filmed and recorded, on several occasions, evincing
his willingness and endeavors to commit espionage.
The government’s investigation reveals that NOZETTE is a
serious flight risk and is, by virtue of the classified information
“in his head,” a grave risk to the national security of the
United States. Notably, NOZETTE was plotting his departure from the
United States long before he was charged with attempted espionage.
NOZETTE told a colleague that if that government attempted to
imprison him for fraud and tax evasion charges, he would flee the
United States and disclose classified information to a foreign
government. His subsequent requests for an alias and a foreign
passport from the “Israeli intelligence officer” verify the
seriousness of his remarks and underscore the fact that he indeed
intended to escape justice.
Further, the government’s investigation has uncovered
evidence that NOZETTE has the method and means to accomplish his
indefinite flight from the United States. He has traveled
extensively throughout numerous foreign countries and has worked as
an aerospace consultant for several international aerospace
entities. Most importantly, NOZETTE has contemplated and taken
affirmative steps to prepare to leave the United States. And now,
faced with an Indictment for which the death penalty is available,
the defendant has an incredibly strong motivation to flee.
If he is released and flees to a foreign country – or to
the safe harbor of a welcoming embassy, consulate, or interest
section located in Washington, D.C. – he will, in effect, have
fled the United States and be gone for good. No treaty allows the
United States to compel the extradition of an individual charged
with espionage. usa-v-nozette.htm
Israelis
at center of ecstasy drug trade
October
29, 2009
by
Nathan Guttman
Haaretz
Israel is
at the center of international trade in the drug ecstasy, according
to a document published last week by the U.S. State Department.
In recent years, organized crime in Israel, some with links
to criminal organizations in Russia, have come to control the
distribution of the drug in Europe, according to a Bureau for
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs document.
The same document also points out that Israeli criminal
groups have a hand in the distribution of ecstasy in North America.
During 2000, 80 percent of the ecstasy seized in North
America originated in the Netherlands, which is the largest
production center, along with Belgium and Poland. The State
Department is certain that Israeli organizations are linked to the
laboratories in the Netherlands and are responsible for the
worldwide distribution.
"Israeli drug distribution organizations are currently
the main source for distribution of the drug to groups inside the
U.S., to smuggling through express mail services, through couriers
on commercial flights and, recently, through air cargo," states
the report. In the past two years, the U.S. has dealt more severely
with ecstasy. Federal judges deal with smugglers in the ecstasy
trade with the same severity as heroin and cocaine dealers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?
Hamid
Karzai: Afghanistan's Diem
October
29, 2009
by
Michael Wallach
Asia
Times
The mountains of Afghanistan are
quickly growing verdant in their similarity to the jungles of
Vietnam. The revelation this week in the New York Times that Afghan
President Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed Karzai, is a ''thug'',
''suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade'',
and ''on the CIA payroll'', is striking not for its news quotient,
but for the fact that it was made by what appear to be White House
officials. We are in 1963 all over again.
It was that year that American president John F Kennedy,
fresh off his victory in the Cuban missile crisis, began asserting
himself more deeply in the Vietnam conflict, which had, until then,
been run almost entirely by the US Central
Intelligence Agency. The president was
intervening because Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA's man in Saigon, a city
he ruled in a country he only tried to rule, had gained a reputation
as a gangster, thug, and narcotics dealer both on the ground in
Vietnam and in the international press.
Diem had
carefully built a network of power from his base of Catholic
supporters, French post-colonial arms and narcotics dealers, local
criminals, control of the prostitution and bar industry, and through
work with a longtime Saigon criminal syndicate known as the Bin
Xuyen, originally river pirates, now traders in narcotics, and more
importantly, information. His spy network was thorough and
terrifying to the local populace. Through this network, Diem, a man
who kept a working casino on the top floor of his presidential
palace, had gained a firm grip on the security of Saigon.
However, the North Vietnamese had built a successful public
relations campaign against Diem for these very reasons.
Kennedy felt he had to win over the population of Vietnam, and could
never do so with such a known thug in office. This was in direct
contradiction to the CIA's perspective. Their chief man in Asia,
Edward Lansdale, had personally nurtured Diem's rise to power. He
felt that Diem, while dirty, had taken great strides in gaining
control of a country that the colonial French had so recently fled.
The dispute became personal: Kennedy asked Lansdale to the
White House, and Lansdale fought tooth and nail in a
September 1963 National
Security meeting for the president to back Diem and to give
him moral and political, as well as financial and military, support. Lansdale
berated the administration for not having already done so - even
going so far as to accuse State Department officials of having tried
to kill Diem in 1960.
Ultimately, Kennedy came round to the belief that the United
States could better win over Vietnam by replacing Diem. He ordered
the American ambassador at the time, Henry Cabot Lodge, not to meet
with Diem, and soon American military commanders gave the go-ahead
to a coup by Diem's own military leaders.
The new leaders let the network of thugs, criminals,
gangsters, and ex-colonialists fall apart, and with it, Saigon's
security. The coup led to a never-ending power struggle among South
Vietnamese military leaders for control of the various power centers
of the old network. Amidst the chaos, the North Vietnamese
leadership was able to quickly infiltrate the city.
In the words of the North Vietnamese politburo: "Diem
was one of the strongest individuals resisting the people and
communism. Everything that could be done in an attempt to crush the
revolution was carried out by Diem. Diem was one of the most
competent lackeys of the US imperialists ... Among the
anti-communists in South Vietnam or exiled in other countries, no
one has sufficient political assets and abilities to cause others to
obey."
Ho Chi Minh thought Diem was such a powerful figure that he
''could scarcely believe the American's could be so stupid'' as to
have replaced him.
Indeed, Ho Chi Minh's prediction proved true. Under new rule,
Saigon fell from bad to worse, forcing the CIA to later re-institute
a ''strong-man'' policy in the city, only to see support for its
rule and efficacy undermined by the Tet offensive. In Vietnam,
neither the idealist route of dumping thugs nor the cynical route of
reinstating them worked. Ultimately, there was no compelling reason
to the Vietnamese why the United States should be in Vietnam.
And so it is little surprise, but a well-timed reminder, that
also this week, a leading American figure in Afghanistan offered his
resignation, stating, ''I have lost understanding of and confidence
in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in
Afghanistan.'' Mathew Hoh, the Senior Civilian Representative for
the US Government in Zabul province, wrote on September 10 in a
four-page resignation letter that ''I have doubts and reservations
about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my
resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why
and to what end.''
Now President Barack Obama is choosing between strategies in
Afghanistan, with the New York Times reporting that his administration has
''deep divisions''. Yet they seem to be split only between the
strategies of cynicism and of false idealism. The White House has
already made clear that its decision will involve a troop increase,
the question being only how large and deployed in what way.
Throughout the general mass media bonanza that has been
covering the decision over Afghanistan, from the fawning entire
Nightline episode dedicated to a ''day in the life'' of Stanley
McChrystal, to the most recent New York Times piece about Karzai's
allegedly drug-dealing brother, few have explored why the US remains
in Afghanistan at all.
The New York Times article, based on statements of
"American officials" indicates only one thing: that the
White House has clearly decided to confront the CIA, and Karzai,
over Afghan policy, undermining both in one quick news attack. What
it has clearly not decided to do is pull out of Afghanistan.
There is an old British diplomatic saying, ''The United
States will always do
the right thing, after it's tried all its other options.''
Lets hope that 45 years after 1963 we have outgrown this. But it
doesn't appear to be the case.
Michael Wallach is the former senior analyst
for Middle East Public Opinion at the US
State Department. He resigned, with little fanfare, due to
the US's overall Middle East policy.
Medical
Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market
October
19, 2009
by
Kim
Zetter
ThreatLevel
When
patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone
involved in providing their health care can lawfully see their
medical records.
But
unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that
manage electronic health records also have access to that data, and
are reselling the information as a commodity.
The
revelation comes in a recent New York Times article about
how so-called “scrubbed” patient data isn’t
as anonymous as people think. The piece focuses primarily
on how anonymized data can be cross-bred with other publicly
available databases, such as voting records, which subverts the
anonymity. Buried near the end of the article is the news that
medical data is collected, anonymized and sold, not by insurance
agencies and health care providers, but by third-party vendors who
provide medical-record storage in the cloud.
Electronic
health record (EHR) services have been a growing industry in the
last few years, according to Sue Reber, marketing director of the
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. Reber
says most vendors used to simply sell software packages; once the
product was sold, the vendor had no connection to the data stored in
it. But an increasing number of companies have begun to offer
web-based software-management applications that include database
storage controlled and managed by the vendor.
Reber
told Threat Level that such products generally come with security
and privacy provisions that prevent the software provider from
having access to the data, even though they’re managing it. But
others say this isn’t always the case.
As part
of their contracts with the vendors, doctors are agreeing to let
some vendors access and collect the patient data, scrub it of
personally identifying information, and sell it in bulk to
pharmaceutical companies and other buyers, the Times reports.
George Hill, an analyst at Leerink Swann, a health care
investment bank, told the Times that the market for health
record systems is $8 billion to $10 billion annually. About 5
percent of this income comes not from the sale of information
systems but from the sale of data and analysis. As more physicians
and hospitals — spurred by federal incentives — switch to
electronic record keeping, revenue from the sale of health data
could grow to $5 billion, Hill said.
In some
case, the vendor contract specifies that the vendor has exclusive
access to the health records in its database, according to Dr. Paul
Tang, vice president and chief medical information officer of the
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and member of a federal privacy
advisory panel.
Tang told
ModernHealthCare
in 2007 that he’d seen such contracts from large and small
vendors. “Some [vendors] say they have ownership to data. There
are contracts that say they will have real-time access to the
database, that they will have exclusive access to the data, that
they can resell the data. I think it would be unlawful that covered
entities abide by that.”
Giving
vendors access to such data would apparently violate the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which
prohibits doctors from providing medical records to anyone not
involved in providing health care or payment for health care or
involved in health care research. Although the law does provide a
loophole for “business associates” hired by health care
providers, privacy rights lawyer Robert Gellman told
ModernHealthCare that this likely wouldn’t protect health care
providers in these cases.
“Any
contract that deals with ownership of medical data is pretty
meaningless, because laws and medical ethics control the rights and
responsibilities of medical records,” Gellman said. “Whoever
holds the records as a covered entity has certain obligations and
limits under law, regardless of how the contracts are written. As
long as a doctor is covered by HIPAA, those rules for disclosure
hold. If a doctor signs an agreement like that, the doctor has
certainly violated HIPAA, and may be pursued by OCR and may be sued
by the patient for all kinds of things.”
Vendors
say they re-sell the data for research purposes and scrub it of
identifying information first to protect patient privacy. But in
1997, Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Lab at Carnegie
Mellon University, showed how she was able to pick out the medical
records of William Weld (then the governor of Massachusetts) from
scrubbed medical information published by the state’s insurance
commission by simply correlating the anonymized data with birthdays,
ZIP codes and gender information published in the state’s
voter-registration rolls.
According
to Sweeney, 87 percent of the U.S. population can be uniquely
identified simply from their birthdate, gender and zip code.
Patient
advocate groups have called for greater oversight and regulation of
the electronic health-record industry to control what software
vendors can access and what they can do with the data.
Asteroid
blast reveals holes in Earth's defences
October
26,2009
by
David
Shiga
New
Scientist
As the US government ponders a strategy to deal with
threatening asteroids, a dramatic explosion over Indonesia has
underscored how blind we still are to hurtling space rocks.
On October 8 an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere
above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as
50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA
estimate released on Friday. That's about three times
more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making
it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed.
However, the blast caused no damage on the ground because of
the high altitude, 15 to 20 kilometres above Earth's surface, says
astronomer Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario (UWO),
Canada.
Brown and Elizabeth Silber, also of UWO, estimated the
explosion energy from infrasound waves that rippled halfway around
the world and were recorded by an international network of
instruments that listens for nuclear explosions.
The
explosion was heard by witnesses in Indonesia. Video images of the
sky following the event show
a dust trail characteristic of an exploding asteroid.
Sudden
impact
The amount of energy released suggests the object was about
10 metres across, the researchers say. Such objects are thought to
hit Earth about once per decade.
No telescope spotted the asteroid ahead of its impact. That
is not surprising, given that only a tiny fraction of asteroids
smaller than 100 metres across have been catalogued, says Tim Spahr,
director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Yet
objects as small as 20 or 30
metres across may be capable of doing damage on the
ground, he says.
"If you want to find the smallest objects you have to
build more, larger telescopes," says Spahr. "A survey that
finds all of the 20-metre objects will cost probably multiple
billions of dollars."
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy, which advises
the White House, must develop a policy to address the asteroid
hazard by October 2010 under a deadline imposed by 2008 legislation.
It is likely to be influenced by a report
from the National Research Council on the asteroid problem, which is
expected by year's end.
The
Death of Martin Bormann
by
Brian Harring
The Slaughterhouse Informer recently ran a transcription of a
conversation between author Gregory Douglas and former senior CIA
official, Robert Crowley, that discussed the flight of top level
Nazis after the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. One of the
persons mentioned was Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, the
all-powerful secretary to Hitler.
There was great speculation following the end of the war that
Bormann might have escaped and this speculation produced hundreds of
books, some claiming that he had fled to Tibet and many others, to
South America.
In view
of the reader response concerning the issue of Bormann's death and
other relevant matters, it would be very helpful if we had something
concrete about a ‘Don Angel,’ individual who was alleged to be a
very important intelligence personage that
worked for Spain, Germany and Japan and who personally
entered Hitler’s bunker in April of 1945 and assisted not only the
Führer but Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller, the head of
Hitler’s Gestapo to escape by submarine to Argentina.
I can
find absolutely nothing believable about ‘Don Angel’, either on
Google or another similar site, nor in any of my many books on
wartime intelligence. Further, a very good connection in Spain
searched their records for any sign of him and can find absolutely
nothing. I do know for a fact that no one with this name was ever in
the Führerbunker in 1945. Now, as to the question of
Bormann's death, there is no question he died in May of 1945, was
buried and later exhumed and positively identified by German
authorities. Jochen von Lang covered the discovery and
published much of the post mortem forensic material. There
were additional tests on the remains conducted over several years
after the initial findings and I have copies of a number of them, plus
photographs of the skull, the existing dental work and the
pre-1945 NSDAP dental records. On a scale of ten, it is a
ten that Martin died when and where post-war witnesses said he did.
I
suggest that curious readers get a copy of von Lang's book (which
has been translated and published in English) and check the many
official references on Google. In order to establish the
accuracy of the assertions that a ‘Don Angel’ existed, was a top
Spanish/Japanese/German intelligence agent, was in Berlin of 1945,
was in the Führertbunker and fled to South America with
Hitler, Bormann and Heinrich Müller, it would be necessary to
firstly establish the existence and career of ‘Don Angel.’ He
was, to a certainty, not in the Führerbunker because
period records of all persons entering and leaving the bunker were
kept by the RSD and can be found today in the Bundesarchiv in
Koblenz.
Müller
left Berlin just before it fell and went to Switzerland where he was
employed initially by the Masson people of Swiss intelligence and
later, by the CIA under Colonel James Critchfield (operating out of
Pullach in Bavaria) so he was never involved in any strange
“escape” event (although there are a number of scattered current references
to 'Don Angel' taking Müller to South America.)
I
recommend von Lang's book which gives specific information on the
discovery of Bormann's body in Berlin.
In
December, 1972, during construction near the Lehrter Station (near
to where Bormann's diary had been found in a discarded leather
jacket in 1945, and close to the spot where Axmann said he had seen
Bormann's body in the moonlight of that fatal night) two skeletons
were unearthed. After extensive forensic examination, using the
dental records of Bormann's dentist (Prof. Hugo Blaschke, who was
also Hitler's dentist) the shorter of the two skeletons was
identified as that of Martin Bormann, and West German authorities
officially declared him dead.
The
forensic identification was validated by Dr. Reidar F. Sognnaes, a
celebrated U.S. expert in such matters. (Reidar F. Sognnaes, Dental
Evidence in the Postmortem Identification of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun
and Martin Bormann, in Legal Medicine Annual, 1976.) This
new evidence caused Roper to write in the 1978 edition of The
Last Days of Hitler that "...in view of new evidence which
has recently been found, I believe that it [the question of
Bormann's death] can now be closed."
As stated
in the Final Report of the Frankfurt State Prosecution office under
File Index No. Js 11/61 (GStA Ffm.) in Criminal Action against
Martin Bormann on Charge of Murder, dated April 4, 1973:
“ XI.
Result
Although nature has placed limits on human powers of recognition it
is proved with certainty that the two skeletons found on the Ulap
fairgrounds in Berlin on December 7 and 8, 1972, are identical with
the accused Martin Bormann and Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger.
The
accused and Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger died in Berlin in the early hours
of the morning of May 2, 1945 -- sometime between 1:30 and 2:30 A.M.
XII.
Further Measures
1. The search for Martin Bormann is officially terminated....”
(BGHZ Vol.
36, pp. 379-393-NJW 1962, 1505),
von Lang, Jochen: Secretary,
Martin Bormann: The Man Who Manipulated Hitler,
Ohio University Press, 1981.
After
supervising the corpse-disposal arrangements following on the
apparent suicide of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun on the afternoon
April 30, 1945, and waiting in vain for a further twenty-four hours
for a favorable reply from the Soviet commanders to the overtures
made to them by Dr Josef Göbbels, Germany's new
Chancellor-for-a-Day, Martin Bormann and a group of Hitler's senior
colleagues made a final breakout attempt from the Berlin Bunker late
on May 1.
Soviet
troops were closing in on the building from every quarter, but it
was the Soviet national holiday. Erich Kempka, Hitler's chauffeur,
was with Bormann's group, as were Hitler's last physician, Dr Ludwig
Stumpfegger (who had succeeded Professor Theo Morell on April 22),
and Artur Axmann, the Reichsjugendführer, who had smuggled
out of the building with him the pistol with which Hitler had shot
himself (according to Hitler’s SS adjutant,Otto Günsche).
At the Weidendamm Bridge near Lehrte Station, the group were
cut off by enemy troops. Bormann and Stumpfegger made a run for it.
A Soviet tank shell exploded only feet away from them -- Axmann
testified that he saw it happen. Both survived the blast, but they
were badly shaken and decided to swallow their cyanide capsules
there and then, rather than surrender.
The bodies must have lain there some time. Bormann's
expensive leather greatcoat was taken off the body, and the contents
of its pockets were taken to Moscow, including his pocket diary: the
contents of the diary were published by the Soviet historian and
former Intelligence officer Lev Bezymenski. There is no doubt as to
the diary's authenticity, as crosschecks with other rare documents
establish. There the story would have ended, had the controversy
about Bormann not continued. Simon Wiesenthal, Elie Wiesel,
Fritz Bauer and others continued the lucrative hunt for a live Martin
Bormann years after the Reichsleiter unscrewed the cap off
that lethal brass capsule.
Then along came Stern journalist Jochen von Lang.
Born Joachim Piechocki, he had been an SS liaison officer in Göbbels'
propaganda ministry at the end of the war; to him in fact had fallen
the duty of making the famous May 1, 1945 broadcast on Berlin Radio
announcing that the Führer had "fallen in battle".
Nonetheless,
he was a fine researcher, and in 1972 Von Lang and Stern
magazine persuaded the Berlin police authorities to dig up the
street at the spot where the bodies of Bormann and the doctor had
last been seen. It was a macabre exercise, but it came off
brilliantly, when two bodies were brought to light.
Forensic
experts used dental pathology to identify the bodies -- hampered in
Bormann’s case initially by getting his jaw upside down. In 1976,
the leading Scandinavian dental pathologist Reidar F Sognnaes
published a lengthy disquisition in a scientific journal, Legal
Medicine Annual, titled, "Dental Evidence in the
Postmortem Identification of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Martin
Bormann." This established beyond doubt that Bormann’s corpse
was indeed his (his dental chart was on file).
As for the
doctor, Stumpfegger - a gold ring had been found on the corpse, with
a date engraved inside. His brother, living in Ingolstadt confirmed
that it was the date of Ludwig's wedding in 1938.
In 1998 DNA analysis confirmed that the body was Martin
Bormann's, and the German authorities finally allowed its cremation
The urn
containing the Nazi's ashes was sunk in the Baltic Sea near Kiel on
August 16, 1999 according to a report in Der Spiegel
magazine. The report was confirmed by Bavarian officials.
With
the exception of the proflieration of utter nonsense concerning the
September 11, 2001 attacks by Sauda terrorists, much of which is
deliberate disinformation, nothing has caused the slaughter of many
otherwise harmless trees than the allegations of the escape of
U-boats full of Nazi leaders pouring into various countries in South
America. The death of Hitler has never been proved and there is
strong, though circumstantial, evidence that if he escaped, he and
some of his people flew to Barcelona on April 26, 1945.
Inisofar as Bormann is concerned, there is no doubt
whatsoever that he died in Berlin, was buried where he fell and
later discovered in 1972. In the post war years, both Hitler and
Bormann were often reputed to have found a haven in six different
countries in South America, the latter even positively stated as
running a bowling alley
in Buenos Aires!
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October
29, 2009
by
Brian Harring
October
1, 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc.
Ross E. Vogel, III, 27, of Red Lion, Pa., died Sept. 29 in Kut,
Iraq, of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident.
He was assigned to the 67th Signal Battalion, 35th Signal
Brigade, Fort Gordon, Ga.
The
circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Alex French IV,
31, of Milledgeville, Ga., died Sept. 30 in Kwhost, Afghanistan, of
wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit using an
improvised-explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, Lawrenceville, Ga.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Sept. 29 in Jolo Island, the Philippines, from the
detonation of an improvised-explosive device.
The soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special
Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Killed were:
Sgt. 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw, 37, of Markham, Ill.
Staff Sgt. Jack M. Martin III, 26, of Bethany, Okla.
October
3, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc.
Russell S. Hercules Jr., 22 of Murfreesboro, Tenn., died Oct. 1
in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents
attacked his unit using small arms fire
He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 101st
Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st
Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt.
Ryan C. Adams, 26 of Rhinelander, Wisc., died Oct. 2 in Logar
province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked
his vehicle using rocket-propelled grenade fire. He was assigned to
the 951st Engineer Company (Sapper), Wisconsin Army National Guard,
Rhinelander, Wisc.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt.
Roberto D. Sanchez, 24 of Satellite Beach, Fla., died Oct. 1 in
Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces
attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th
Ranger Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield Ga.
October
4, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Oct. 2 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of injuries
sustained when enemy forces attacked their unit using small arms
fire.
Killed
were:
Sgt.
Aaron M. Smith,
25, of Manhattan, Kan. He was assigned to the 2nd
Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade
Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry),
Fort Drum, N.Y.
Pfc.
Brandon A. Owens,
21, of Memphis, Tenn. He was assigned to the 118th
Military Police Company, 503rd Military Police Battalion,
16th Military Police Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort
Bragg, N.C.
October
5, 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff
Sgt. Thomas D. Rabjohn,
39, of Litchfield Park, Ariz., died Oct. 3 in Wardak province,
Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device
detonated during an attempt to disarm it.
He was assigned to the 363rd Explosive Ordnance Detachment,
Coolidge, Ariz.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Paul E. Andersen, 49, of Dowagiac, Mich., died
Oct. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces
attacked his camp using indirect fire. He was assigned to the
855th Quartermaster Company, South Bend, Ind.
October
7, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who
was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Maj. Tad T. Hervas,
48, of Coon Rapids, Minn., died Oct. 6 at Contingency Operating Base
Basra, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related
incident. He was assigned to the 34th Infantry Division,
Rosemont, Minn.
The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of eight
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Oct. 3 in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered
when enemy forces attacked their contingency outpost with small
arms, rocket-propelled grenade and indirect fires. They were
assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade
Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Killed
were:
Staff
Sgt. Vernon W. Martin,
25 of Savannah, Ga.
Sgt.
Justin T. Gallegos,
27, of Tucson, Ariz.
Sgt.
Joshua M. Hardt,
24, of Applegate, Calif.
Sgt.
Joshua J. Kirk,
30, of South Portland, Maine.
Sgt.
Michael P. Scusa,
22, of Villas, N.J.
Spc.
Christopher T. Griffin,
24, of Kincheloe, Mich.
Spc.
Stephan L. Mace,
21, of Lovettsville, Va.
Pfc.
Kevin C. Thomson,
22, of Reno, Nev.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Kevin O. Hill,
23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., died Oct. 4 at Contingency Outpost Dehanna,
Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit
using small arms and indirect fires. He was assigned to the
576th Mobility Augmentation Company, Fort Carson, Colo.
Army
Releases September Suicide Data
The Army today released suicide data for the month of
September. Among active-duty soldiers, there were seven potential
suicides. One has been
confirmed as a suicide, and six are pending determination of the
manner of death. For
August, the Army reported 11 potential suicides among active-duty
soldiers. Since the
release of that report, four have been confirmed as suicides and
seven remain under investigation.
There were 117 reported active-duty Army suicides from
January 2009 through September 2009.
Of those, 81 have been confirmed, and 36 are pending
determination of manner of death. For the same period in 2008, there were 103 suicides among
active-duty soldiers.
During September 2009, among reserve component soldiers who
were not on active duty, there were seven potential suicides.
Among that same group, from January 2009 through September
2009, there were 35 confirmed suicides.
Twenty-five potential suicides are currently under
investigation to determine the manner of death.
For the same period in 2008, there were 40 suicides among
reserve soldiers who were not on active duty.
Over the past year, the Army has engaged in a sustained
effort to reduce the rate of suicide within its ranks.
This effort has included an Army-wide suicide prevention
stand-down and chain teach for every soldier; the implementation of
the Army Campaign Plan for Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and
Suicide Prevention; the establishment of both a Suicide Prevention
Task Force and Suicide Prevention Council; a long-term partnership
with the National Institute of Mental Health to carry out the
largest ever study of suicide and behavioral health among military
personnel; and more than 160 specific improvements to Army suicide
prevention policies, doctrine, training and resources.
“Whether it’s additional resources, improved training or
ensuring those in our Army community can readily identify the
warning signs of suicidal behavior, all our efforts often come down
to one soldier caring enough about another soldier to step in when
they see something wrong, “ said Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire,
Director, Army Suicide Prevention Task Force.
“Soldiers will be willing to do that if they know help is
available, if they believe there is no stigma attached to asking for
that help, and if they are certain that Army leaders remain
absolutely committed to the resiliency of our entire Army Family.”
Soldiers and families in need of crisis assistance can
contact Military OneSource or the Defense Center of Excellence (DCOE)
for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Outreach Center.
Trained consultants are available from both organizations 24
hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
The Military OneSource toll-free number for those residing in
the continental U.S. is 1-800-342-9647, their Web site address is:
http://www.militaryonesource.com.
Overseas personnel should refer to the Military OneSource Web
site for dialing instructions for their specific location.
The DCOE Outreach Center can be contacted at 1-866-966-1020,
via electronic mail at Resources@DCoEOutreach.org and at http://www.dcoe.health.mil
.
The
Army's most current suicide prevention information is located at
http://www.armyg1.army.mil/hr/suicide/default.asp .
October
9. 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth W. Westbrook,
41, of Shiprock, N.M., died Oct. 7 at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center in Washington, D.C., of wounds suffered Sept. 8 when
insurgents attacked his unit in the Ganjigal Valley, Afghanistan,
using small arms and indirect fire. He was assigned to the 1st
Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
October
12, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. George W. Cauley,
24, of Walker, Minn., died Oct. 10 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds
suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised
explosive device on Oct. 7 in Helmand province. He was assigned
to the 114th Truck Company of the Minnesota Army National Guard in
Duluth, Minn.
October
13, 2009-
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Lance
Cpl. Alfonso Ochoa Jr.,
20, of Armona, Calif., died Oct. 10 while supporting combat
operations in Farah province, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd
Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine
Corps Base Hawaii,
Kaneohe Bay.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff
Sgt. Aaron J. Taylor,
27, of Bovey, Minn., died Oct. 9 while supporting combat operations
in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 372, Marine
Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine
Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
October
17, 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt.
Christopher M. Rudzinski,
28, of Rantoul, Ill., died Oct. 16 near Kandahar, Afghanistan, of
wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an
improvised explosive device. He
was assigned to 293rd Military Police Company, 385th Military Police
Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne), Fort Stewart,
Ga.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who
were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Oct. 16 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds
suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised
explosive device. The soldiers were assigned to the 143rd Infantry Detachment,
Austin, Texas.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Chris N. Staats,
32, of Fredericksburg, Texas.
Spc. Anthony G. Green,
28, of Matthews, N.C.
October
19, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of four
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Oct. 15 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of
wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an
improvised explosive device. They
were assigned to the 569th Mobility Augmentation Company, 4th
Engineer Battalion, Fort Carson, Colo.
Killed were:
Staff
Sgt. Glen H. Stivison, Jr., 34, of Blairsville, Pa.;
Spc. Jesus O. Flores, Jr., 28, of La Mirada, Calif.;
Spc. Daniel C. Lawson, 33, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.;
and
Pfc. Brandon M. Styer, 19, of Lancaster, Pa.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Pfc. Daniel J. Rivera, 22, of Rochester, N.Y., died
Oct. 18 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle
accident. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment,
3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
The circumstances surrounding the incident are under
investigation.
October
20, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Michael A. Dahl Jr., 23, of Moreno Valley,
Calif., died Oct. 17 in Argahndab, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered
when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive
device. He was assigned
to 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd
Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
October
21, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Lance Cpl. David R. Baker, 22, of Painesville, Ohio,
died Oct. 20 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province,
Afghanistan. He was
assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division,
I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza,
26, of Mission, Texas, died Oct. 19 in Qwest, Iraq, of wounds
suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised
explosive device.
He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
October
22, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Kyle A. Coumas, 22, of Lockeford, Calif., died Oct. 21 in
Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces
attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He
was assigned to 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort
Lewis, Wash.
October
26, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Oct. 23 in Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when
enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive
device. The soldiers
were assigned to the 569th Mobility Augmentation Company, 4th
Engineer Battalion, Fort Carson, Colo.
Killed were:
Spc. Eric N. Lembke, 25, of Tampa, Fla.
Pfc.
Kimble A. Han, 30, of Lehi, Utah.
October
27, 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of four Marines who
were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
The following Marines died Oct. 26 while supporting combat
operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Cpl.
Gregory M.W. Fleury,
23, of Anchorage, Alaska.
Capt. Eric A. Jones, 29, of Westchester, N.Y.
Capt. David S. Mitchell, 30, of Loveland, Ohio.
Capt. Kyle R. Van De Giesen, 29, of North Attleboro,
Mass.
Fleury, Jones and Van De Giesen were assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine
Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary
Force, based
out of Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
Mitchell was assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter
Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I
Marine Expeditionary Force, based
out of Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Pfc.
Devin J. Michel,
19, of Stockton, Ill., died Oct. 24 in Zhari province, Afghanistan,
of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an
improvised explosive device. He
was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sgt.
Eduviges G. Wolf,
24, of Hawthorne, Calif., died Oct. 25 in Kunar province,
Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked her vehicle
with a rocket propelled grenade.
She was assigned to the 704th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
October
28, 2009
The
Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Maj.
David L. Audo,
35, of Saint Joseph, Ill., died Oct. 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, of
injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.
He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment,
22nd Military Police Battalion, 6th Military Police Group, Fort
Lewis, Wash.
The
circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.
October
29, 2009
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a
soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Brandon K. Steffey,
23, of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., died Oct. 25 in Laghman province,
Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his
vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to
the 178th Military Police Detachment, 89th Military Police Brigade,
III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who
was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Cody R. Stanley,
21, of Rosanky, Texas, died Oct. 28 while supporting combat
operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned
to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine
Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center,
Twentynine Palms, Calif.
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of seven
soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They
died Oct. 27 in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered
when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised
explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 17th
Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry
Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Killed were:
Staff
Sgt. Luis M. Gonzalez,
27, of South Ozone Park, N.Y.
Sgt.
Fernando Delarosa, 24, of Alamo, Texas.
Sgt.
Dale R. Griffin,
29, of Terre Haute, Ind.
Sgt.
Issac B. Jackson,
27, of Plattsburg, Mo.
Sgt.
Patrick O. Williamson, 24, of Broussard, La.
Spc.
Jared D. Stanker,
22, of Evergreen Park, Ill.
Pfc. Christopher I. Walz, 25, of Vancouver, Wash.
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