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The title of this post is an extraordinary question: “Is the Bush admin assassinating USAF airmen at Minot AFB?”

I didn’t expect to be asking any such question today. Even as much as I, an anarchist, despise any form of government; my mind instinctively recoils at the very possibility that question implies — not merely from horror at the notion, but just from natural skepticism. Even so, the potential importance of this matter, if the following report is true, is very, very grave.

Mystery surrounds deaths of Minot airmen [article text follows in its entirety for archival purposes]

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.

Now, this is a report from Iranian media, so to give “the devil” (the US government) “his due”, it must be noted that the Iranian government has an obvious potential interest in disinformation campaigns. That alone doesn’t make this disinformation, though.

The group cited, Citizens for Legitimate Government, is an actual US activist group and the report on the Iranian web site is linked to by a headline on the CLG web site. So it would appear that is really what CLG is saying, at the very least.

Beyond that, it’s not clear. Perhaps a little digging can turn up some other reports of the individual deaths. It’s not clear how we might or might not verify that the dead airmen cited were all involved with the misplaced cruise missile nuclear warheads incident (that was so widely considered a potential “black op” gone awry or called off at the last minute).

Even if all of those details are eventually verified, it does not definitely indicate they were “rubbed out” to cover the ass of a high political official — such as Dick Cheney, for instance. Coincidences and weird synchronicities really DO happen.

The problem, though, is that Occam’s Razor potentially cuts both ways. Sometimes, the most sensible explanation turns out to be a conspiracy after all.

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