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To: chudogg
Provide a quote of a CentCom release that says Pat Tillman was killed by enemy fire.

Does this count?

RELEASE NUMBER: 040423-01
DATE POSTED: APRIL 23, 2004

PRESS RELEASE: Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan

U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, April 23, 2004) — A U.S. Army Ranger was killed April 22 when his unit came under fire during combat operations in Afghanistan.

Spc. Patrick D. Tillman, 27, an infantryman assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis, Wash., was fatally wounded after his unit received hostile fire while participating in a combat patrol in southeastern Afghanistan. ....
167 posted on 05/23/2005 10:52:46 AM PDT by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC
Does this count? No.
169 posted on 05/23/2005 11:15:48 AM PDT by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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To: BikerNYC

It says his unit came under hostile fire. Not that he was killed by enemy fire. There's a difference.


184 posted on 05/23/2005 12:26:44 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard ("We'd rather have you dead than incapable" - The Church of Scientology)
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