New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers


	New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers

cptenaud

11-22-2008 9:42 AM

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military, politics

cptenaud says:

They say they support the troops. But they treat them like damaged equipment.

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After Salon published Benjamin's Oct. 14 report, the Army ordered soldiers to shred documents about the men. As proof that they were ordered to destroy the paperwork, a soldier <A href="http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2008/11/20/friendly_fire_2/index.html">saved some examples and provided them to Salon.</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/28E70AD1-CA9B-4405-A6F5-E67C9DD98EB4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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