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Texas Observer Picks Up Larry’s Westhusing Story

By SusanUnPC on February 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM in Larry Johnson

I can see incoming links to our blog in our administrative Dashboard, and noticed this. I thought you’d all want to see this article about the mysterious death of Col. Westhusing in Iraq because the author was helped directly by Larry Johnson (see Larry’s previous stories here). Please check it out, and comment below.

Was a Colonel’s Death in Iraq Something More Sinister Than Suicide?
Also at : http://www.alternet.org/…

A snippet:

By Robert Bryce, Texas Observer
Posted on February 23, 2008, Printed on February 23, 2008

Since last March, when I wrote a story about the apparent suicide of Col. Ted Westhusing in Iraq, I had believed there was nothing else to write about his tragic death.

But in December, I talked to a source in the Department of Defense who met Westhusing in Iraq about three months before his death. The source, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals, was investigating claims of wrongdoing against military contractors working in Iraq. After a short introduction, I asked him what he thought had happened to Westhusing. “I think he was killed. I honestly do. I think he was murdered,” the source told me. “Maybe DOD didn’t have enough evidence to call it murder, so they called it suicide.” I contacted the source through Larry C. Johnson, a former employee of the CIA who specializes in terrorism and security issues, and who writes the “No Quarter USA” blog. Johnson and other bloggers have written extensively about Westhusing’s death. …

More:

Two other factors led me to look into the story again: First, some members of Westhusing’s family — in particular his mother, Terry Clark — refuse to believe that the career Army officer, who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head at Camp Dublin on June 5, 2005, took his own life.

Second, the curiosities about Westhusing’s death are getting attention on Capitol Hill. …

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