INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Mesopotamian murder mystery: Who killed Dale Stoffel? Print
Written by Jim O. Madison
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
If you only read the first of the following items, you might think Dale Stoffel was an idealistic American businessman whose willingness to get involved in promoting democracy in the Middle East tragically cost his life. -- But by the time you get to the end of the fourth item, you realize that Dale Stoffel seems really to have been an ex-Special Forces soldier turned global arms merchant who was very likely murdered because a Lebanese agent was trying to bilk him of millions of dollars of U.S. cash that he wanted to control himself -- millions of dollars in cash that had been boxed up in Iraq's Central Bank and flown to Beirut. -- This case deserves to develop a popular following, and Congressional hearings are certainly in order. -- Not only do the circumstances of Dale Stoffel's death contain all the elements of a good murder mystery, but unraveling it would reveal much about the true nature of the U.S. national security state and how it operates in the world. -- Ironically, the Los Angeles Times, the mainstream paper that has chosen to pursued the story, is presenting Dale Stoffel as a paragon of probity. -- A more apt characterization would cast him as an archetypal war profiteer, however. -- On Wednesday, two L.A. Times investigative journalists reported that eight days after Stoffel warned Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus that "If we proceed down the road we are currently on, there will be serious legal issues that will land us all in jail," he was shot dead in an ambush near Baghdad.
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