That'll do it.
Posted on 06/18/2005 5:00:44 PM PDT by neverdem
Disgruntled National Guard soldier Alberto Martinez used a powerful remote-control Claymore mine to murder his two superior officers in a plot to make the slaying resemble an Iraqi terrorist attack, it was revealed yesterday.
Shocking details of the carefully calculated killing of New York Guard Capt. Phillip Esposito and Lt. Louis Allen in Tikrit were revealed yesterday by retired Army Col. Jack Jacobs, a Medal of Honor winner who spoke to senior military officials familiar with the investigation.
Jacobs said investigators believe the 37-year-old Martinez, a company supply sergeant from Troy, detonated the mine on a window sill. The sill was outside the room where company commander Esposito and operations officer Allen were having a nighttime meeting to plan the next day's operations.
The deadly anti-personnel mine was connected by wires to a "clacker" — a small electrical generator, controlled by Martinez, that set off blasting caps in the mine.
The Claymore contains a pound of plastic explosive and buckshot shrapnel, and it throws off a "shaped" charge that channels the blast in a specific direction.
After the June 7 explosion inside the officer's quarters in one of Saddam Hussein's old palaces, Martinez tossed "a couple" of hand grenades in another direction to make it appear as though there was an Iraqi insurgent mortar attack on the base, Jacobs said.
He also threw the clacker in a nearby lake, but Army investigators later found it after draining the lake, Jacobs said.
"You have to be pretty calculating and pretty determined to do something like that," Jacobs told The Post in an interview after revealing details of the attack on MSNBC.
Military officials in Iraq would not comment.
Esposito, a 30-year-old Wall Street broker and father of an infant girl from Pearl River, Rockland County, and Allen, 34, a high school...
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That'll do it.
damn, he deserves death
Lake in Iraq?
I'm not poking at Col. Jacobs when I say this but, I'd expect every military man and woman on the front lines, and/or possessing high rank, to be incredibly calculating and determined when it comes to the subject of killing.
I mean, that's their job.
I know what Col. Jacobs meant but it didn't come out the way he wanted it. That or his statement was taken out of context.
Sounds like he knew exactly what he was doing. Firing squad- In Iraq.
Every time we stay at the Halekulani (to the left of this picture) I need to give my wife a tutorial as to why I refer to the Sheraton Waikiki as "The Claymore Mine"...
He should be executed by firing squad in the area of operations this occured and buried in an unmarked grave.
LOL! That's a beautiful hotel, though, inside and out.
...and the Halekulani is even swankier.
Firing squad is too good for him. Wire up a clacker to the bottom of his feet so that when he falls down from exhaustion the clacker sets off a claymore.
After they hang him.
Put him in a Pinellas county Florida nursing home-hospice unit
and refuse him food and water till he dies...
Video tape the whole process...
Make the County coups guard him to make sure no one sneaks
any food or water to him
Must have been desperate to do something that stupid. The fragments from the claymore, the wire and the grenade fragments made it pretty easy to figure out it wasn't a mortar attack. I suspect he was already about to go down hard for something UCMJ related. He just sealed the deal.
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I'm sorry to deliver such a God forsaken story. I hope it's better from me than someone else. God have mercy.
Yeah, there are a couple of them. Pretty big. When I first went to Iraq some people thought that was where Saddam had dumped his WMD.
The guy must have been really dumb to think any competent investigator would believe it was a terrorist attack.
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