Iraqi resistance video claims "close friend of Bush" killed

[Frederik]

A purported spokesman for the resistance says:

"Congratulations to our Great Army

We congratulate you to the Demise of Dale C. Stoffel a CIA Shadow Manager in Iraq, and a close friend of George Bush. He is more important than Bremer and his lot of Generals. He was killed on the 8th of December 2004 after close monitoring of our moles on the hands of the Islamic Jihad Brigades. This was at the hour of 1630.

He is the engineer of darkness to the destruction of Iraqis Army assets forever. We have in our hands thousands of documents which have been assessed over the past few months."

Watch the video at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8464.htm

[ET Awful]

1. That's obviously a lie.

Bush doesn't have any friends. Just pimps and johns.

[Frederik]

4. LOL

although they did portray him as an "engineer of darkness", which sounds like the kind of friends Bush would have

[applegrove]

2. I will cry for Bandar. Sniff. n/t

[noamnety]

3. Has Sen. John Cornyn issued a statement yet?

He likes to talk about cause and effect, and how the victims had it coming - surely he won't be quiet on this?

[Binka]

5. Stoffel Was Getting LOUD About Getting Paid This Was A Black Ops Hit IMHO

Read this article and then ask yourself 1. Who stood to gain by his death. 2. Then follow the money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25285-2005Jan20.html

[pnorman]

6. Here's what I just Googled up:

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Mesopotamian murder mystery: Who killed Dale Stoffel? Print
Written by Jim O. Madison
Tuesday, 15 March 2005

If you only read the first of the following items, you might think Dale Stoffel was an idealistic American businessman whose willingness to get involved in promoting democracy in the Middle East tragically cost his life. -- But by the time you get to the end of the fourth item, you realize that Dale Stoffel seems really to have been an ex-Special Forces soldier turned global arms merchant who was very likely murdered because a Lebanese agent was trying to bilk him of millions of dollars of U.S. cash that he wanted to control himself -- millions of dollars in cash that had been boxed up in Iraq's Central Bank and flown to Beirut. -- This case deserves to develop a popular following, and Congressional hearings are certainly in order. -- Not only do the circumstances of Dale Stoffel's death contain all the elements of a good murder mystery, but unraveling it would reveal much about the true nature of the U.S. national security state and how it operates in the world. -- Ironically, the Los Angeles Times, the mainstream paper that has chosen to pursued the story, is presenting Dale Stoffel as a paragon of probity. -- A more apt characterization would cast him as an archetypal war profiteer, however. -- On Wednesday, two L.A. Times investigative journalists reported that eight days after Stoffel warned Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus that "If we proceed down the road we are currently on, there will be serious legal issues that will land us all in jail," he was shot dead in an ambush near Baghdad.
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http://www.ufppc.org/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=2441&pop=1&page=0

[Frederik]

7. Thanks for that