[Texgreen] Military disaster coverup

[Roger Baker]

[While there is no doubt that the Baghdad military base was attacked  
and explosions were triggered, it does appears that a major part of  
what I sent yesterday was inaccurate and exaggerated. Here is how my  
friend Doug analyzed the account I posted on the Austinagainstwar  
list. -- Roger]



I looked at this when it first came out.  The included piece from  
Stars and
Stripes is an exact copy -- so there was a shelling of "Forward Base  
Falcon"
resulting in the destruction of an amunition store.

One thing about the list that seemed strange is that no hometowns are  
listed.
The DoD always lists hometowns.  With no listed home towns it is very  
hard
to disprove that someone with a given name has died.  I looked  
through the
list of US fatalities in Iraq since that date, & none of those names  
match.
If this were true, one might expect them to slowly trickle the names  
in.  It
has not been happening.  I've tried web searches on a bunch of the  
names and
find nothing relating to these folk -- other than items sourced on  
this report.
The units mentioned exist -- or at least those i checked do.  A  
number of the
named casualties are associated with a psyops unit.  This national  
guard unit
did go to Iraq in 2004 -- maybe it went back a second time.  I found  
a site
that listed psyops casualties in the War on Iraq -- this listed folk  
who the
DoD has reported being killed there, but it doesn't mention any of  
the names
on this list.

It appears to me that this is a psyops operation by the anti- 
occupation side.
Someone went to a lot of trouble to make up names and associate them  
with units
that have been in Iraq.

I came across a site this summer that regularly lists a dozen or  
three US troops
killed in Afghanistan and in Iraq -- almost every day.  This is a  
site that
prints press resistance from the resistance in Afghanistan and Iraq.   
I would
guess that they are doing this to make their own partisans feel  
better.  Real
news reports are mixed with these stories. See http:// 
kavkazcenter.com/eng .
They currently claim 14 US troops killed Tuesday, 12 Wednesday, "over  
12"
Thursday, and 138 between October 2 and 17.  They don't even make the  
claim
of 300 killed at Forward Base Falcon.

I would guess that this report is the same kind of thing.  The claim  
of the
mass casualties is being attached to a massive and long lasting set of
explosions that everyone in the Green Zone and nearby military bases  
will
have heard -- people who would be concerned about the extent of  
casulaties.

Fortunately, the article appears to be false.

-- doug