"Army Finds 7 Incorrect War Death Reports"

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6181671,00.html

Army Finds 7 Incorrect War Death Reports

Tuesday October 31, 2006 3:16 AM

By ROBERT BURNS

AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The families of seven soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan were given incorrect or misleading information about the deaths, the Army has concluded after a review of war casualty reports.

The review, which began last summer, covered hundreds of casualty reports and marked the first step in a new process ordered by Army Secretary Francis Harvey to ensure that families receive accurate information.


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The issue of inaccurate casualty information resurfaced last summer when Army officials revealed that two California National Guardsmen - Lt. Andre Tyson and Spc. Patrick McCaffrey - were murdered in June 2004 by the Iraqi civil-defense soldiers they were training. The Army initially told the men's families they were killed in an enemy ambush.

It was two years before the guardsmen's families were told the truth.

In another case, in September 2005 the Army acknowledged publicly that it had known for more than a year after 1st Lt. Kenneth Ballard's death in Iraq in May 2004 that he was not killed in action, as it initially told his family. The family was not told the truth - that he died of wounds from the accidental discharge of a U.S. machine gun after a firefight in the city of Najaf - until that public acknowledgment.
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[MADem]

1. What a load of horseshit....misunderstandings and miscommunication - not criminal negligence - are

to blame? Gimme a break. They knew IMMEDIATELY what happened to Pat Tilman...so immediately that they tried to COVER UP THE EVIDENCE by burning his gear.

Come ON. Their explanation is ludicrous.

[G_j]

3. lie lie lie

I never have believed a word the Pentagon issues


never

[lumpy]

2. Lies to support the glory of war.

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