2012-10-01

TREASON: A Marine Murdered Who Knew Too Much - Part 2 of 2

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 Vatic note:  (This part 2 is even better than part 1.  Its a must read so you can see just how deep the treason goes by our military leaders,  and now you know why they have done nothing to help us or stop all this tyranny and police state that is emerging.  Remember according to Panetta, he waits for orders from the international community.  I suspect Britain and Israel are the key players.  MI6 and Mossad. That is who he takes his orders from and why Truman said he had no idea what the CIA was doing or who was giving them orders and he wished he had never created them.  Same with Kennedy who had the gall to fire the head of the CIA, which is what signed his death warrant.  NOW, its all starting to come together and how long its been going on as well. ITS NOT THE SOLDIERS, EXCEPT THOSE SATANIZED, RATHER ITS THE CHAIN OF COMMAND THAT ARE THE TRAITORS STARTING WITH THE SOD. )   Just another reminder.  We did a blog on here showing the Taliban were being paid and funded by not only the CIA but also Mossad.  Keep that in mind when you read this section of the article.   Remember also Kimmit worked at state for Hitlary Clinton, and she works for Israel and the Bilderbergs as evidenced by her secret meeting with Obama and bilderberg in 2008.  It used to be illegal for officials working for the gov to meet secretly with non governmental agencies and especially if they had a conflict of interest.  In fact, it was criminal.  This has made me now wonder if the ambassador in Libya is probably another one of these assassinations of Americans to cover up criminal activity of the higher ups like Hillary.  We proved the official story of the ambassadors murder was bogus.   Given this issue was researched for three years by another veteran and published on Veterans Today,  makes it even more credible.  Read it and you decide.

 We owe these men who gave their lives trusting those that betrayed them who represented the American people,  and to retain their integrity and loyalty to the nation and its people,  a thorough and in depth investigation of their demise and if it is proven circumstantially to have been a criminal murder, then we owe it to them and their families to pursue justice for them with congress and the criminal justice system.  Treason, murder one, and RICO conspiracy which means forfeiture of all assets.   Then give the assets to the family of the victim.   

 TREASON: A Marine Murdered Who Knew Too Much  - Part 2 of 2
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/29/a-marine-who-knew-too-much/
by Tim King,  Veterans Today
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 - 
Retired General Mark Kimmitt in the U.S. State Dept. is going to have some answering to do.
One unidentified Marine from that day wrote:
    “They asked for indirect (redacted- presumably ‘fire’) and in return got 20 questions. The people in the TOC needed to let (redacted) do his thing and trust what he is asking for.”
A Marine in the news right now who was awarded the Medal of Honor, Dakota Meyers, and others did what they could but they failed to reach the four pinned-down Marines who were all killed, in a ditch, out of ammunition.
Camp Joyce: Remote Fire Base Near Afghanistan-Pakistan Border  
Take a look inside FOB Joyce, from Tim King’s 2007 report: 
Military.com wrote:
      According to a copy of the executive summary obtained by Kit Up, the 10th Mountain Division Soldiers manning the TOC at FOB Joyce “did not adequately support the mission” and reflected “an apparent lack of commitment to support partner units with the same focus and emphasis as organic units.” 
      So, in other words, the 10th guys were more willing to dive in and do all it took to help another 10th unit in contact, but didn’t take the same kind of urgent action for an ETT made up of Marines, Soldiers and Afghan troops. That is disgraceful. 
The article mentions about the fact that General David Rodriguez as well as McChrystal should be held accountable for the deaths of the Marines at Ganjgal. Now we learn that Rodriguez has been tagged for the African Mission. General Mark T Kimmitt and General David Rodriguez are friends as well as Army Associates. You can Google them to see how they are connected. 

 Check out General Mark T Kimmitts – Wikipedia, as well as his brother Robert and deceased father Stanley and you will get a whole other picture of what is going on. They are deep inside government and Military/Political arenas and Kimmitt is involved with every major military complex in the world. 

 It is also important to note that Mark T Kimmitt was under suspicion for war crimes related to Abu Ghraib, and he got out of the war crimes of Abu Ghraib only to be transferred to J5 Plans and Policys at US. CENTCOM TAMPA FL, where Aaron Kenefick was his enlisted aide…
Major Peter Granger of 10th Mountain Division knew Mark T Kimmitt and was in his Division artillery camp in Baumholder Germany back in the early 1990s. Peter Granger was the kiss of death to Kenefick and the others that day….and Kimmitt was the general that Kenefick told off a few years earlier…..
General David Rodriguez

Afghan flag over Camp Joyce. Photo by Tim King
Another key person in this story, General David Rodriguez, had a hand in the operation that went to badly at Ganjgal. 

 From what we can determine, the order to clear the air field apparently came from General Rodriguez/at CENTRAL COMMAND, and the question is who gave General Rodriguez the order….Someone from the Defense Dept? Mark Kimmitt? 

 After all he was friends with Peter Granger who denied the orders of Air and Artillery Support that day…and as luck would have it the Battalion Cpt was on Leave….and the 1st Lt under him was transferred to another unit… leaving Major Peter Granger in charge of the base. It is important to note that at this time, Granger had 27 out of 30 yrs EXPERIENCE of Artillery Expertise. The fact that shots broke out at 5:30 a.m., means that Lt O’Donnell would have still been on base at this time. Those those who have been watching this case, it also sounds like components for a set up.
Aaron Kenefick was a target on Sept 6 2009, and the original mission was supposed to be on the 7th and yet it was put off to the 8th when there were intelligence reports stating that there would be heavy Taliban activity this day…
Certainly Peter Granger and Mark O’Donnell knew this. Situational awareness for small arms fires? Wait, this was not small this was 150 Taliban against 3 Marines and 1 Navy Corpsman… Peter Granger who was a major was never reprimanded and allowed to retire after 30 yrs.
As revealed by Herschel Smith, who wrote in ‘Reprimands in Marine’s Death at Ganjgal Engagement‘
    The Ganjgal investigation, conducted by Army Col. Richard Hooker and Marine Col. James Werth, determined that the “negligent” leadership of three officers at nearby Forward Operating Base Joyce contributed “directly to the loss of life which ensued.” They refused direct calls for help from U.S. forces on the ground and failed to notify higher commands that they had troops under fire, the investigation found.
Smith added:
    Recall that in 2009 three Marines and a Navy Corpsman approached the remote Kunar village of Ganjgal where they were ambushed in what was surely a planned incident. At the time even the women and children could be seen firing weapons, spotting or carrying munitions. The Marines made repeated calls for artillery and air support over the next couple of hours, with support denied due to the fact that the authorizing Army officers could not verify that noncombatants wouldn’t be harmed. We know this because a McClatchy reporter was with the Marines. In other words, whatever obfuscation that the Army can throw at this incident cannot supersede the conclusions that we can draw directly from McClatchy’s report.
      And obfuscation came. The Army did an investigation that concluded, among other things, that the officers were out of the command center for decision-making during this engagement. But in fact they were out only some of the time, and did indeed refuse on multiple occasions to authorize supporting fires. They also had the presence of mind to authorize white phosphorus rounds to provide smoke and thus give cover for retreat, so they knew about the danger. They just didn’t authorize support.
Captainsjournal.com
Marine Bonds- Unbreakable

Salem-News.com photo by Tim King
Though my time as a U.S. Marine was just one enlistment during a peaceful (somewhat) time in the early 1980′s, it left an indelible impression and ignited an interest that has only grown over time.
I have had a genuinely passionate desire to follow these warriors from the sunny skies of California, to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan; and to far out places full of ghosts like Belleau Wood in France where Marines earned the nickname from the Germans, ‘Teufel Heinden’ which translates to Devil Dog; a name that stuck glue to these sharpest of military heroes.
As I continue to discover so much more about this story every day, I realize how succinctly my own travels intersect and overlap with those of Aaron Kenefick on his final mission, and the one left by the former general officer Mark Kimmitt.
The base that the operation was launched from, Forward Operation Base Camp Joyce, is a place that I reported from in Kunar Province in early 2007. This is a hotly contested region in Pesh Valley close to Pakistan. In fact I visited several bases in this area. Ganjgal village is about four miles from Camp Joyce. I covered the heart defects of Fallujah children, which now connects directly to Kimmitt. I also know the mother of one of the murdered Blackwater contractors
Pinning the Tail on the Donkey

Mark Kimmitt
Mark Kimmitt is known in public and private circles for his involvement in U.S. operations that are shady at best, and in reality more like treasonous. His fingerprints are on all of the darkest moments in our recent war history.
Using donkeys to transport weapons and guns shipments in deals with the Taliban.
Serving as both the orchestrator and spokesman/defender of the notorious Bedouin Wedding attack by U.S. forces during the Iraq War in Makr al-Deeb, a desert hamlet near the town of Qaim, that left more than 40 members of a wedding party dead and riddled with bullets. Brig Gen Kimmitt suggested the site had been “somewhat of a dormitory” housing “military-aged” men. Source: The BBC [8]
The set-up of four U.S. Blackwater contractors who were sent to Fallujah without a map, told to turn on a particular street, where they were overwhelmed and murdered, their bodies dragged through the street and two of the four, were hung from the bridge in Fallujah. The mother of one of those men, Scott Helvenston, (who had been the youngest Navy SEAL in history prior to joining Blackwater) told me it was a setup and it sure played out like one, even replicating the feeling of the U.S. soldiers’ bodies being drug through the streets of Mogadishu. This attack was used to justify sending the Marines to Fallujah for a harrowing series of battles that drew insurgent fighters from many places.
Alternet quotes Kimmitt in the wake of the attack on the Blackwater contractors:
      Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt vowed, “We will be back in Fallujah:. We will hunt down the criminals! It’s going to be deliberate. It will be precise, and it will be overwhelming.” Within days of the ambush, US forces laid siege to Falluja, beginning what would be one of the most brutal and sustained US operations of the occupation. Source: AlterNet
It is Fallujah where UK Doctor Chris Busby’s research now shows levels of radiation in the city’s children being born with abnormalities and defects nearly unparalleled. I wrote and produced a report in Iraq in 2008 dealing with children born there with congenital heart defects. Source: Salem-News [10]
The four contractors are Scott Helvenston, Jerko Zovko, Wesley Batalona and Michael Teague.
    Just four days after four US mercenaries’ burned and dismembered bodies were strung up on a bridge, American military might was poised to bring Fallujah’s brief spell as a no-go area to an end. Up to 4,000 locally-based US Marines, whose original mission was to woo locals with a $500m humanitarian aid budget, were preparing to roll in with full battle armor on. 
    Even Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the normally impassive Coalition spokesman in Baghdad, seemed to be relishing the prospect. Declaring Fallujah “the town that just doesn’t get it”, he vowed to “hunt down the people responsible for this bestial act”. He added: “It will be at a time and a place of our choosing. It will be methodical, it will be precise and it will be overwhelming.” (VN:  I just decided, if you are going to place the power of life and death into a mans hands, then first he must be cleared by a team of psychiatrists and certified as not psychopathic.  If he is certified psychopathic, then he is kicked out of the military, loses his pension and put into mental health institution until cured.) 
    We are all aware by now of what he was promising. Falluja has gotten “it.” Over 700 of its citizens are no longer living, breathing human beings. Thousands more have been mutilated. An overwhelming proportion of them had nothing to do with killing the mercenaries.
    Of course, to realize the full promise of Kimmitt’s words, his boss, Gen. Abizaid, has asked the Defense Department for more troops, as the resistance inflamed by the reprisal has proved more formidable than expected.
    These people are worse than those who betray a political entity. They spend most of a lifetime being warriors and the rest of a lifetime selling WMD and more personal homicidal tools to their successors.
      The military-industrial complex has fundamentally changed our country. Things will not get better until the military-industrial complex is dismantled. Carried to its logical conclusion, such a complex leads to a fascist state like the Third Reich, capable of exterminating whole towns like Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in reprisal. Source:
WHO IS GEN. MARK KIMMITT: PR Man for Genocide; Dad Is DC Lobbyist Tom Payne – Beirut IndyMedia[11]

 Video above recounts Busby’s research about enriched uranium in Fallujah; video below is Tim King’s report from 2008 about children in Anbar province receiving surgery for congenital heart defects.  Both of these videos are from the report: Birth Defects Reveal Weapons-Grade Enriched Uranium Used in Fallujah, Iraq
Heart Defect patients in Anbar Province
My connection to this story on a personal level is small, but significant in my opinion. While covering the war in Iraq in 2008, I was only in Fallujah for a short period, however I was able to spend a few days at the al Asad air base in Anbar, located about 58 miles from Fallujah, the capitol of Anbar province. It is here I had a chance to meet a woman trying to save several Iraqi children with congenital heart defects.
I can’t say for sure that the families of these kids were from Fallujah, but it is the same province and not very far away, and the kids were all very young and as I recall, they all were probably born in 2003 or later.
There are two messages in that story; one is that the U.S. led war on Iraq created an environment where more or less routine heart surgeries were a total impossibility, as the infrastructure of an otherwise modern city, Baghdad, had long been gutted by war by that point. 

 The second major point is that an incredible Navy doctor attached to the U.S. Marine base at al Asad went through considerable effort to get these children both to Jordan for pre-surgery care, and to Israel where they would receive surgery to repair their defective hearts.
It is painfully clear that Kimmitt strenuously called the U.S. to engage militarily with the residents of Fallujah in the most violent way. Now that work from a UK scientist suggests that children suffering from birth defects were contaminated with radiation from an unknown device used by the U.S. in Fallujah, it suggests Fallujah was set up to be a testing bed for a weapon which the military has to this day, failed to disclose.
To the last Marine standing…
The saying is, ‘Once a Marine Always a Marine’ and that is absolutely the crucial feeling that puts all who served this Corps on a single page. Many Marines are different, but all know many of the same exact things.
In light of that, there are some Marines that stand above others; check that… they tower above others. These are the purest examples who developed their love of Corps in context with their own personal journeys toward physical, mental, and spiritual excellence. 

 They are people who do not possess compromising values. This is the story of Aaron Kenefick, who was the best and who died under completely avoidable circumstances. Those in power know that Marines follow orders, while Dakota Meyer broke his orders in his heroic rescue attempt, there was never a doubt that SSgt Kenefick would follow his.
Unquestionably, Marines like this man take the hardest course on themselves. In discussing the life of Aaron Kenefic, you are evaluating a Marine who in his 12 years of extraordinarily honorable service, was ‘Marine of the Year’ not once, but twice.
How did Marine 1st Lt Michael Johnson, Marine Gunnery Sgt Edwin Johnson, Marine SSgt Aaron M Kenefick (Gunnery Sgt) and Navy/Corpsman James R Layton end up dead in a ditch when they were told they were going to a key leader engagement with the locals?And what really happened to a 5th American who was injured at Ganjgan that day who later died in the hospital, Army Sgt Kenneth Westbrook? He had been recovering in the hospital. His health had been steadily gaining; the hospital said he died of a blood transfusion?
Why was this one day of the entire year different from all the others? How did it happen that the Battalion Captain was on personal leave and another officer was transferred out to somewhere else this day?
While much has been done to pass the buck with regard to this story’s difficult outcome, such as the confusion over who was in command, the answers do seem clear in some areas. A particular major named Granger had a total of 27 years experience of artillery expertise under his belt at this time, in 2009.
Major Peter Granger of 10th Mountain Division, was the senior TOC officer at Joyce this day, by default as the captain was on leave and the lieutenant under him was transferred just as shots broke out at 5:20 or 5:30 a.m.
Obfuscation from Granger would state later that, “without knowledge of the exact whereabouts of friendly forces, I did not feel it was worth the risk to clear the fires. That was coupled with a lack of SA, in regards to the disposition of civilians in the area.”
For the record, very few people on the inside believe a word of it. The officers in the TOC could see on the map that the fire missions were being called in close to the farming compounds and we know drones were overhead monitoring Taliban troop movement. Those officers could not see the friendly troops who were dying, or could they with the drones? It has been suggested that protecting their rank more important to this bunch than taking risks and supporting the troops.
Even worse, at the end of the day the troops not getting the support go home and have to deal with losing their friends while the officers get promoted and never have to see the results of their decision up close.
Appearing to be the ‘driver’ of this operation to kill Marines and soldiers that day, why was Granger given an official reprimand for his screw up at Ganjgal, and then promoted to lieutenant colonel? This, according to the Mountaineer Online issue dated June 24, 2010, took place just 9 months after the ambush. In the Datelinestory examining this aspect of the case, a U.S. Army investigator who worked on the case says an official reprimand is a career-ruining move. The article by 10th Mountain Division Journalist Spc Matthew Diaz, states that this officer was NOW the “Chief of Operations for the Division”.
Doesn’t sound like a career killer from this vantage point.
This same article acknowledges that forces under this command would work on the reconstruction of Afghanistan, and build stability in the region. It states, 10th Mountain Division works hand in hand with foreign armies and U.S. government agencies ranging from the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Agriculture. The article explains that they synchronize reconstruction and redevelopment much closer than in the past. They hit the ground running…
After becoming pinned down, as anyone who has read the account knows, Aaron Kenefick and his 2 Marines and 1 Navy Corpsman were denied help, abandoned for a long time period, and it appears without question that Aaron was the target due to vital information he possessed. The same holds true for Army Sgt Kenneth Westbrook. As I continue to release information about this in future reports, you will see incredible evidence and learn that there were many deals taking place between Taliban and the Americans.
Perhaps the most nagging aspect is that the men ambushed and pinned down were able to call in artillery strike coordinates that the U.S. Army firebase refused to deliver. They were calling for air and artillery support for 2 hours, from about 5:20 a.m. till about 7:30 a.m.
Why were the 6 to 7 officers in the air conditioned TOC that day in and out of their command post?
Why were Kenefick and his men being asked if the calls for air and artillery support for the Marines or the Army?
Why were Kenefick and his men being asked 20 questions of who was on their ETT roster?
The most heart wrenching words to read from witnesses that heard these calls over their radios were the laughing of those men, as the Marines were begging for assets to rescue and support them.
Why did these men Laugh at other brothers in arms as they were in a dangerous position in the “KILL ZONE”?
Why did they not send for choppers to rescue them?
We know that Aaron Kenefick called the pilot on his cell phone and two choppers were on the way from an ‘inorganic’ unit because of the “dereliction of duties” by the organic unit, by this time, 1/2 hour into the calls, when protocol always has a time span of 10 to 15 min on average, and this valley was less then 5 miles from headquarters, so why the denial?
To make the KISS OF DEATH final, when the two choppers from the inorganic unit were within about 1 Kilometer of rescue, someone from the higher echelon (General David Rodriguez US CENTCOM) gave the order to clear the airfield, but then who gave General Rodriguez that order?
It would have had to come form the “DEFENSE DEPARTMENT” or STATE DEPARTMENT on 8 September 2009. Why would they have the choppers abort the mission of rescue for the lives of 4 American Marines? Where was this Lt Col transferred to this day and what time leaving the major in charge of the command post?
Army Obfuscations will state the following excuses
  • “Poor Planning”
  • “Inexperience”
  • “Bad Intel”
  • “Battallon Leadership Absent”
  • “Advice Ignored”
  • “Lack of Preperation”
Yet, General Scaparrotti who was up for his 3rd star at the time of this tragic incident and was the CJTF-82 Commanding Army Major General, mentions that the investigation found there were a slew of mistakes and that the key individuals have been dealt with.
Another article by the 10th Mountain Division in early august 2012 states that this particular Officer who was never reprimanded, was allowed to finish out his 30 year retirement till the end of July 2012. Because of the nature of questions leading to more questions in this tragedy, did General Scaparrotti have a connection to this particular major turned lt col turned civilian citizen that was DIRECTLY responsible for the loss of life that day?
Another question among many is how did Army Cpt Will Swenson’s Merit Citations for MOH disappear 3 times, it appears they were ambushed as well?
How did they disappear out of the computer systems at US CENTRAL COMMAND?
A persistent rumor that is in the paper and under discussion in the military community in Tampa Fl regards the permanent closure of Mac Dill Air Force Base. Who was in charge of CENTRAL COMMAND? General David Rodriguez. What are his relations to all of this?
We understand that General Rodriguez is up for consideration for U.S. Africa Command. Rodriguez was one of the architects of the operation in which President Obama ordered an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in late 2009. Rodriguez is the General that was responsible for clearing the airfield when Aaron Kenefick and the others were about 2 to 3 min from being rescued. Now General David Rodriguez is going to be in charge of a dangerous area such as Africa?
It was July 23, 2009, when this particular Marine unit from Okinawa Japan left for Afghanistan for what was to be a 9-month mission. This team was called the Embedded Training Team ETT 2-8. They were told they were going there to be a presence for the Afghan elections which took place on Aug 20 2009. A presence, yet not security, which seems confusing and fails to make sense. This team of Marines was not security, only a Presence? And it was a KNOWN FACT in history that from 1979 to 1989 the Russians could not beat the Mujaheddin in the mountains and terrain of Ganjgal, so higher echelons had this knowledge.
‘They’ want you to believe that a couple of officers who were in dereliction of their duty and negligent for abandoning these men while they were radioing for back up air and artillery support. 

 The govt. wants the public to believe that was the extent of the problem on the command/TOC side. They tell us two were reprimanded, however as we reveal later in this article, that is not necessarily true. In reviewing the evidence it is clear that a higher echelon called the rescue off. Why?
In reading over the 500 redacted pages of this Investigation Report called the 15-6, it seems clear that those calls for support were somehow funny to the 6 Officers that were in the Air Conditioned TOC that day. They are said to have LAUGHED at the calls over the radio, asking the pinned-down Marines 20 questions, such as “is this for the Marines or the Army?” and “Who is on your ETT roster?”
Background on Aaron Kenefick: Recon Marine
Aaron’s previous assignments include high profile missions that put him in the every day working arena with the highest echelons who were in charge of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. 

 Again… the highest echelons of U.S.CENTRAL COMMAND and the sister HEADQUARTERS SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND OF EUROPE, RECON/Special Ops, as the Administrative NCOIC for the Operations Directorate, Primary Security Manager, Deployed on many sensitive missions throughout
Africa and the Ivory Coast, where he was a KEY operator. Aaron had 12 years of service and was twice awarded “Marine of the Year”. He was also awarded: “Marine of the Quarter”, “Honor Grad at Army Jump School” “Enlisted Aide to a General at U.S.CENTRAL COMMAND in Plans and Policy’s, from 2004 to 2007, and he was the Attendee for former President George W Bush at the RNC in Sarasota Fl, Aaron served as the SNCOIC for Counter -Intelligence and Human Intelligence Operations Support Branch in J2, and was also responsible for Joint command taskers supporting Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.
Other responsibilities assigned to this Marine included involvement with all intelligence tasks within the Operations Support and personnel management including Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Civilian Contractor Personnel. He served as the U.S. Marine Corps Administrative Chief for the Intelligence Directorate, Liaison between USCENTCOM and MARCENT for all annual training and Marine Corps personnel; and on Aug 1 2007, reported to Combat Assault Bn, 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa Japan as the Administrative Chief for 2 years before deploying for this tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Everything from the very start of the mission was messed up. It is actually strange that this mission was scheduled for Sept 7 2009, yet the day before on the 6th of Sept 2009, Aaron Kenefick had taken shrapnel in his arm as the Afghan soldier next to him was killed.
It was between 2004 thru 2007, when Aaron worked at U.S.CENTCOM as the “ENLISTED AIDE” to the General of J5 Plans and Policy’s, this general was the spokesperson during the Abu Ghraib incident. Then SSgt Kenefick. Aaron ended up working for Petreas’ boss in J2 until he was transferred to Okinawa- from where he ended up in Japan, and then Afghanistan a couple years later.
Aaron was RECON/Special Ops. As earlier mentioned, he was awarded “Marine of the Year” twice in his over 12 yr Career. He possessed the highest security clearance and was always chosen to be the driver for all the dignitaries when they met with the important generals.
This is the story within the story, within the story…
Captain Will Swenson, the Army Cpt who worked closely with Kenefick’s ETT team and Dakota Meyer; who was also put up for the Medal of Honor (MOH). Yet like many unexplainable events that transpired during this ambush, Cpt Swenson’s merits disappeared 3 times. General Allen put this matter before the President to sign and again, however the MOH citations fell into a dimension of void to where there are no answers, this entire TRAGEDY renders so many questions.
Captain Will Swenson needs to receive his Medal of Honor which has been held up repeatedly, at least three times that we know of, and that is because the government fears his words. This young captain was noted for his extremely precise skills in directing artillery fire. Meyer says the knowledge tha Capt. Swenson was there for the trip to Ganjgal village was reassuring.
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The release of Dakota Meyer’s book this week is key to what this story contains and while it is clear that a large amount of indisputable events tie the charges in this report together, it is Dakota, the extremely humble Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his role that day; who reveals that the Americans knew Taliban were moving into the area to set up the ambush.
The Army immediately tried to turn the blame for the murder of Gy Sgt Kenefick and the others on problems that the dead themselves and their surviving teammates were responsible for, such as not having taken all the steps to advise artillery crews of their needs, which is a preposterous claim. These soldiers and Marines were the ones whose lives were at risk, not the men in the air conditioned TOC, and Marines don’t forget the most important elements of mission preparation, and neither do experienced combat soldiers.
There is also a large discrepancy as to who was in charge that day, and Meyers reveals that many believed the officer commanding the mission was an Afghan major named Talib. I have never heard of Marine Special Forces ETT’s (embedded training teams) tasked specifically with training Afghan soldiers, being under an ANA (Afghan National Army) officer, ever.
Thus it is all the more puzzling because it involves a group of experienced Americans and their Afghan counterparts approaching a village that has been considered impenetrable by both our current forces and also notably by the Soviet forces who fought here in the 1980′s.
On page 85 of his book, Meyer explains that information arrived prior to the mission’s onset stating that forces under regional Taliban commander Quri Zia Ur-Rahman, were observed moving toward Ganjgal early that morning by a U.S. drone which he refers to as ‘eye in the sky’ and it was clear that the group was trying to avoid detection, moving carefully from one covered area to the next.
A Taliban fighter named Khadim was part of the group guiding 15 fighters into the area, along with a Taliban called Rhaman. 20 additional fighters under a Taliban named Faqir, set up in 5 positions for the well-planned ambush.
The Ganjgal Ambush September 8, 2009 is proof that the U.S. Army has the power to force officers to the Dereliction of Duties, Abandonment, & Negligence (VN: TREASON, NOTHING LESS) of those they are charged to oversee, in this case the political maneuvering claimed the lives of 3 Marines, 1 Navy Corpsman. The 5th man, an army soldier who was injured died 1 month later.
This article is written in the memory of:

Afghan soldiers at Camp Joyce 2007 Photo by Tim King

Marine 1st Lt Michael Johnson Marine Gunnery Sgt Edwin Johnson Marine SSgt Aaron M Kenefick (Gunnery Sgt) Navy/Corpsman James R Layton Army Sgt Kenneth Westbrook
What is the lesson for those who possess the same skill sets as Aaron Kenefick? He was elected as USCENTCOM Senior Marine of the Year above 42 eligible Marine SNCO’s. 

 His dedication to duty has been second to none as he has worked and established himself as a top performer and fearless leader. I suggest that we pay a different type of attention to the deaths of those involved in special forces operations, and that includes others who worked with Mr. Kimmett.
So much of the army’s defence of itself is extremely predictable. In its review of the event the Army talked about the ‘mistake’ the men made by leaving their vehicles up the road and not having them on scene. That is interesting, since a U.S. Army MRAP truck rolled over on the very road they were criticized for not driving down, that day!
Surely even these army commanders who are almost always isolated from combat themselves, can imagine that any Marine or soldier is more secure when inside of an armored vehicle, and doesn’t need that explained in a lame post mortem examination of this event. Those who have survived combat rarely need remedial lessons from brass who probably haven’t even seen action in their career.
In making this point against the Marines and soldiers at Ganjgal that day, the army is completely discounting the established knowledge that it was not possible to drive the last mile or so on the road that leads up to the village. There is a great deal of additional information that substantiates the assertions made in this article.
References:
[4} APZC-BCT-AD SUBJECT: AR 15-6 Investigation into the Combat Deaths of 1st Lt. Michael E. Johnson, GySgt Edwin W. Johnson, SSgt Aaron M. Kenefick and PO3 James R. Layton

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Tim King: Salem-News.com Editor and Writer
Tim King has more than twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. Tim is Salem-News.com’s Executive News Editor. His background includes covering the war in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and reporting from the Iraq war in 2008. Tim is a former U.S. Marine who follows stories of Marines and Marine Veterans; he’s covered British Royal Marines and in Iraq, Tim embedded with the same unit he served with in the 1980′s.
Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing from traditional mainstream news agencies likeThe Associated Press and Electronic Media Association; he also holds awards from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists, the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs; and was presented with a ‘Good Neighbor Award’ for his reporting, by the The Red Cross.
Tim’s years as a Human Rights reporter have taken on many dimensions; he has rallied for a long list of cultures and populations and continues to every day, with a strong and direct concentration on the 2009 Genocide of Tamil Hindus and Christians in Sri Lanka. As a result of his long list of reports exposing war crimes against Tamil people, Tim was invited to be the keynote speaker at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) Conference in Baltimore, in July 2012. This is the largest annual gathering of North American Tamils; Tim addressed more than 3000 people and was presented with a traditional Sri Lanka ‘blessed garland’ and a shawl as per the tradition and custom of Tamil Nadu
In a personal capacity, Tim has written 2,026 articles as of March 2012 for Salem-News.com since the new format designed by Matt Lintz was launched in December, 2005. Serving readers with news from all over the globe, Tim’s life is literally encircled by the endless news flow published by Salem-News.com, where more than 100 writers contribute stories from 23+ countries and regions.
Tim specializes in writing about political and military developments worldwide; and maintains that the label ‘terrorist’ is ill placed in many cases; specifically with the LTTE Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, where it was used as an excuse to slaughter people by the tens of thousands; and in Gaza, where a trapped population lives at the mercy of Israel’s destructive military war crime grinder. At the center of all of this, Tim pays extremely close attention to the safety and welfare of journalists worldwide. You can write to Tim at this address: tim@salem-news.com. Visit Tim’s Facebook page (facebook.com/TimKing.Reporter)

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