Posted on 10/06/2006 10:13:57 PM PDT by pepsionice
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the disappearance of U.S. Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger, who went missing for three days last month in Kyrgyzstan. FBI officials told FOX News that Metzger's disappearance is being investigated by the FBI, and the center of the investigation appears to be the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. At the time of her disappearance, Metzer was newly married and on temporary assignment at a U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan. Metzger claims that while shopping at the TSUM department store for souvenirs before a scheduled departure from Kyrgyzstan, someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was bomb and to go to a site in Bishkek. Kyrgyz authorities said Metzger reported feeling as if she were in a trance as she followed the instructions. No trace of Metzger was found until three days later, when she knocked on the door of a house in Kant, and told its residents she had been abducted. She was exhausted, had her hair cut and dyed, was dressed in different clothes and barefoot. She apparently told Kyrgyz police she had been abducted by three young men and a woman in a minibus. "This doesn't add up," said one federal law enforcement source who confirmed that the investigation was taking place. If Metzger had simply gone absent without leave (AWOL), it is presumed she would be prosecuted by the military under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If she was kidnapped in Bishkek, the investigation likely would be centered there. The Air Force has been conducting its own investigation into what happened and whether Metzger may have had a hand in her disappearance. Defense officials last month also said her story does not add up.
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Three days missing? Hmmm.
Three days = time needed for traces of most drugs (cocaine, speed, heroin) to disappear from urine for drug test.
Probably a coincidence.
Too bad she's not in the Navy.
Gibbs and Swoon..... Abby would solve the case in an hour.
Wasn't she also hot on doing marathons? I think she had some upcoming obligations to run in an inter-service marathon and maybe the pregnancy was with her fiancee/then husband, but was "inconvenient" with her sports career.
Also perhaps it was supposed to be a "simple" procedure that went not so well, causing her to be gone longer than she originally planned.
Sorry, I didn't see your post before I speculated to much the same thing you wrote here.
Of course, if this is what happened, the Rats will use this to push for "better access" to abortion for military members.
Hokey?
Maybe she didn't want husband to know she was having an abortion. Maybe she just didn't even want to have the discussion/delay while she was worried about the impact of the pregnancy on her career/marathon running.
Those who are saying it was a secret abortion, that's all, would you mind telling me, then why is the FBI investigating this??
What happens in Kyrgyzstan, stays in Kyrgyzstan....just don't do it too close to the flagpole.
KK,
Jill Metzger and this whole incident REALLY is not very important. Not very many people care about this other than yourself.
If she committed adultery, had an abortion, went AWOL, lied about it, put other US personnel at risk, it sure is her fault and she should receive a dishonorable discharge and hard prison time for it.
A U.S. citizen has claimed to be kidnapped.
If you're not interested in the story, maybe moving on to another thread is the way to go. Point of fact: many people do care about the well-being and conduct of those who wear the uniform, especially overseas.
I understand she claimed that. I guess my point is, just about everybody seems to know she had an abortion. According to what I read, anyway. How hard is it for the military investigators to find out what everybody else seems to already know?
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