Posted on 07/15/2004 5:56:14 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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Moore's prop John McCaslin
July 13, 2004
The family of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone was shocked to learn that video footage of the major's Arlington National Cemetery burial was included by Michael Moore in his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Stone was killed in March 2003 by a grenade that officials said was thrown into his tent by Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, who is on trial for murder.
It's been a big shock, and we are not very happy about it, to say the least," Kandi Gallagher, Stone's aunt and family spokeswoman, tells Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson.
We are furious that Greg was in that casket and cannot defend himself, and my sister, Greg's mother, is just beside herself," Gallagher said. "She is furious. She called him a 'maggot that eats off the dead.'"
no, not really... it was just a pic of M&M at the thinnest I could find... it's no big deal
thanks for the new word
And thanks to your homepage, I now know what INRI stands for.
U.S. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone was killed in March 2003 by a grenade that officials said was thrown into his tent by Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar.
ping (this is a one time ping, not a permanent list)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/jm20040713.shtml
How did he get hold of the footage? Public domain?
Thought you might want to ping your friends.....
What makes this even worse to me, it appears that Moore is mocking the death of the Air Force Major instead of blaming Moore's American Islamokazi buddy who killed him with a cowardly grenade attack.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,82128,00.html
Second Serviceman Dies From Grenade Attack
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
BOISE, Idaho — A second serviceman died Tuesday from wounds suffered in a grenade attack blamed on an Army sergeant, the military said.
Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, based in Boise, was pronounced dead at an Army field hospital in Kuwait, the Idaho Air National Guard said.
Sgt. Asan Akbar is in custody in the attack. He was shipped to a military jail in Germany on Tuesday after a judge found probable cause to try him for the crime. Akbar, an American Muslim who told family members he was wary of going to war in Iraq, has not been charged.
Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of Easton, Pa., was killed and 14 other soldiers were injured in the attack.
Lt. Col. Tim Marsano, spokesman for the Idaho Air National Guard, said Stone, a 20-year active and reserve veteran of the Air Force, was the Air Liaison Officer with the Army's 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania.
"My son died to allow the guy who killed him to believe what he believed," his father, Richard Stone of Riggins, Idaho, told television station KIVI.
The father said his last contact with his son was through an e-mail Saturday. In it, Stone, said things were going well and he was a little nervous but ready for the mission.
Stone graduated from Benson High School in Portland, Ore., and Oregon State University. He enlisted in 1983, went through the ROTC program at Oregon State and was commissioned in 1988.
"He was wonderful, the best son anybody could ask for," said his stepmother, Sally Stone of Riggins, Idaho. Stone's mother, Betty Lenzi of Ontario, Ore., said she was too upset to talk.
Stone had two sons, ages 11 and 7, who live in Boise.
The Army said Akbar was taken to the Mannheim Confinement Facility from Camp Doha, Kuwait, where he will await a pretrial investigation, though it was not clear where that would take place.
Akbar was taken into custody shortly after explosions rocked several tents at the headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade.
"It appears that the explosions were the result of three grenades that were thrown or rolled through the front door of each of these three tents," according to a statement from Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the 101st.
Army investigators will complete a report and send it to Akbar's superiors, said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division in Virginia. He wouldn't speculate on when the investigation would be completed.
Before the latest death, military experts said Akbar could face one charge of intentional murder and additional charges of attempted murder for the wounded.
Eugene Fidell, a Washington lawyer and founder of the National Institute of Military Justice, said the crime could warrant the death penalty, which is rare in the military.
There are six people on the military's death row, but there have been no military executions since 1961.
Akbar's family members in Louisiana said they were stunned to learn that he had been accused of attacking his comrades.
During an interview Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America, Ismail Bilal said his brother "spoke just like any other soldier going overseas." Akbar told him, "I would rather be at home. But I got to do my job," Bilal said.
I agree with you. But I think Moore is doing far more than mocking Stone's death. See my post #24 above.
Excellent comparison.
Great pictures here...
http://www.ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/botfly2.html
Akbar would have been spared a court martial in my time. He is far worse than the enemy. He should have been, "Ron Browned." Kill them All, Let God Sort Them Out. Muslims do not belong in the armed services, even though the constitution does allow them. P.C. is a destructive force which affects Real Americans. Bush/Cheny 2004
I read your link yesterday. I did not realize that this Air Force Officer was also killed by the American Islamokazi who should have been tried and shot in 24 hours.
My point is that Michael Moore doesn't pick his subjects for his filming by random. Filming this was a truly vile act.
Another example is the filming of Nick Berg last Christmas by a Moore crew. Did they set Nick up to be filmed and later killed? I would not put it past Moore. If so he wisely decided to pull the Nick Berg film out of his movie. I think that he did that at the last minute.
Moore is a ghoul, and he will do anything to set up his movies.
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