Who really killed Mike Spann?
xexon | 27 May, 2007 20:45
Most of you won't remember the name right off hand. Mike Spann was the first American casuality in Afghanistan back in 2001.
A CIA operative, Mike was there to gather intelligence. One of the people he was Interrogating was another American, John Walker. John Walker had joined the Taliban some time earlier, and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was sheer luck that he and Mike Spann should meet in this part of the world.
Soon after the interrogation, an uprising broke out at this prison and Mike Spann did not survive it.
Mike was not alone in Afghanistan. Another CIA operative called "Dave" was also present. Dave made it out alive.
Now, if we believe the official story, Mike Spann was killed by rioting prisoners. Maybe true, maybe not. I've come to be sceptical of anything "official", at least from this administration. How do we know he wasn't killed by Dave? Maybe Mike Spann found out something about Osama that people back in Washington didn't want him to know about?
For those of you with short attention spans, recall that Osama himself was once friends with the CIA. They supplied him with arms and intelligence during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The United States has a long reputation of getting friendly with some pretty shadowy people, then pulling the rug out from under them when they're no longer needed.
I know Mike Spann's father holds John Walker responsible for his son being killed. The argument is John could have told Mike about the planned uprising, possibly preventing his son's death. A weak argument at best, and one the government is only too happy to support, as it takes attention off of them.
We've made Mike Spann into a hero, for no good reason other that to use his death as a propaganda tool. We did the same to Pat Tillman, the football player who gave up his profession to join the military. The story of his death is now known to be contrary to what the government told us.
Might the same be true of Mike Spann?
You may be asking why I'm bringing up this subject after so many years? Tomorrow is Memorial Day here in the states. A time when we honor our war dead. Mike Spann grew up in the same area I'm from. Decades ago, I even knew some of his relatives. I feel a need to get to the bottom of this mystery, of what really happened to the boy from a small town in Alabama.
And, I would really like to talk to "Dave".
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No mystery here
Ivor Hughes | 02/07/2007, 12:56
xexon | 25/07/2007, 02:19
The "evidence" is always subject to scrutiny.
It is a sad fact that our own government can no longer be trusted to tell us the truth about anything.
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Mike Spann
Johnny Spann | 01/12/2008, 05:50
You don't know the facts.
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from the evidence, easily the most likely explanation for this incident is incompetent handling of dangerous prisoners by their captors. 1. they should have been searched on capture and again before interrogation (some had concealed granades or other weapons and had used them before the revolt) 2. they should have been brought out for interrogation indivually.
3. They should have been properly restrained when brought out of the cells. Hindsight yes, sad yes, but the truth seems to be that prisoner handling was dangerously unprofessional and they all paid the price. No need for a conspiracy theory to explain these events.