From CNN in the USA:
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials say a Defense Department investigation will recommend that nine officers be held accountable for the aftermath of the friendly-fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, according to The Associated Press.
The Pentagon’s inspector general will describe errors and inappropriate conduct during the military’s investigation of the former football star’s death in Afghanistan in 2004, one defense official told AP.
The official, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the investigation, told AP that military leaders may have lacked adequate information or failed to pursue it.
The U.S. Army last year launched a criminal investigation into the death of Tillman, who gave up his career with the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals to fight terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.
Initial reports after his death said Tillman, 27, was shot and killed by Taliban forces during an ambush on April 22, 2004.
An investigation later found that fellow soldiers shot Tillman, thinking he was part of an enemy force firing at them.
Tillman’s family demanded to know why his uniform and body armor were burned a day after he was killed and why they were not immediately told he might have been killed by fellow soldiers.
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24/03/2007 – 2:23:57 PM
Top Brass accountable for sport star’s death
A Pentagon probe will recommend that nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for mistakes in the aftermath of the friendly-fire death of a former US football star killed by his comrades in Afghanistan.
The US Defence Department inspector general will report a range of missteps and inappropriate conduct as the military investigated the death on the battlefront in 2004 of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who gave up a multi-million-dollar career to join the military after the September 11 attacks on the US, one defence official said.
The Tillman case caused an outcry in the US because the Army told his relatives the soldier had died a hero’s death fighting the Taliban. The truth came out only last year.
According to the official, it does not appear that the IG investigation, the fifth inquiry into Tillman’s death, found any indication of an orchestrated cover-up.
The official said it appeared that senior military leaders may not have had all the facts or worked hard enough to get the facts of what happened on that day in April 2004.
Many soldiers – those immediately around Tillman at the scene of the shooting, his immediate superiors and high-ranking officers at a command post nearby – knew within minutes or hours that his death was caused by friendly fire. The IG investigation has focused on how high up the chain of command that knowledge went.
Officers from the rank of colonel and up will be blamed in the report, according to one officer who has been informed of the findings.
The commander of Tillman’s 75th Ranger Regiment was then-Col James Nixon. Last year he was named director of operations at the Centre for Special Operations at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, where the US Central Command, in charge of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is headquartered.
According to the officials, the report will make no charges or recommend punishments but will recommend the Army look at holding the nine officers accountable.
The Army, which requested the IG review last year, said in a statement yesterday that it “plans to take appropriate actions after receiving the Inspector General’s report”.
The IG is expected to release the report on Monday and to speak to Tillman’s family about the results of the investigation.
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