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Mystery surrounds deaths of Minot airmen
Six members of the US Air Force who were involved in the Minot AFB incident, have died mysteriously, an anti-Bush activist group says.
The incident happened when a B-52 bomber was “mistakenly” loaded with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander.
The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base on August 30.
The Air Combat Command has ordered a command-wide stand down on September 14 to review procedures, officials said.
The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber’s wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand.
In addition to the munitions squadron commander who was relieved of his duties, crews involved in the incident, including ground crew workers had been temporarily decertified for handling munitions.
The activist group Citizens for Legitimate Government said the six members of the US Air Force who were directly involved as loaders or as pilots, were killed within 7 days in ‘accidents’.
The victims include Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20, who died while on leave in Virginia. A statement by the military confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
In another accident, a married couple from Barksdale Air Force Base were killed in the 5100 block of Shreveport-Blanchard Highway. The two were riding a 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, with the husband driving and the wife the passenger, police said.
“They were traveling behind a northbound Pontiac Aztec driven by Erica Jerry, 35, of Shreveport,” the county sheriff said. “Jerry initiated a left turn into a business parking lot at the same time the man driving the motorcycle attempted to pass her van on the left in a no passing zone. They collided.”
Adam Barrs, a 20-year-old airman from Minot Air Force Base was killed in a crash on the outskirts of the city.
First Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, a Minot Air Force Base bomber pilot, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee, the military officials say.
Police found the body of a missing Air Force captain John Frueh near Badger Peak in northeast Skamania County, Washington.
The Activist group says the mysterious deaths of the air force members could indicate to a conspiracy to cover up the truth about the Minot Air Base incident.
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I went there, I interviewed, I investigated, I know exactly what happened. Unfortunately you didn’t. it’s quite obvious, and it’s also obvious that you chose to ignore what really went on, the information is easily available out there. You used the unfortunate deaths of these poor airmen for your own personal use, and you did the same with the facts of the original incedent. The only lie published on these pages comes not from Fox, nor from CNN, nor from NBC,ABC,CBS, or from all the major newspapers and radio stations – and most especially NOT from the current White House administration but from your own fevered imagination.
Please direct your complaints to the author and original publisher. We live in a culture of lies; from Fox, from CNN, from NBC,ABC,CBS, from all the major newspapers and radio stations – and most especially from the current White House administration.
If this article is full of lies, thank you for drawing attention to them. It was published because it relates to one more Bush Administration lie: that somehow nukes were “accidentally” loaded onto one wing of an Air Force bomber and nobody noticed until the plane had completed a flight across the nation.
1Lt Weston Kissel was my son. He was killed in a motorcyle accident in east Tennessee weeks before this incident. His death was in no way related to it. I deeply resent the use of his name in the implication of a conspiricy which has no basis in reality.
It is rather simple. This website posted an artilce that is factually inaccurate. Some would call it a lie.
SCT: It’s not so simple. Feel free to contribute to the ongoing debate here:
http://www.legitgov.org/minot_afb_nukes_oddities.html
Two of the people mentioned in this article, First Lt. Weston Kissel and Airmen Adam Barrs, died over a month before the cruise missiles were mistakenly loaded. Hardly within seven days like the article says. Also none of the people mentioned could be tied to the incedent. One was attached to a weather unit, another to a security police unit. You people need to do a better job of fact checking.