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Soldier In Finance Unit At Bagram Air Base Said To Have "Discovered Things" Is Found Dead
Oct. 4, 2007

Exactly how Ciara Durkin died remains a mystery. The Army National Guard soldier from Massachusetts was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in Afghanistan last week, and now her family is demanding answers from the military.

Initially the Pentagon reported that Durkin, part of a finance unit deployed to Afghanistan in November 2006, had been killed in action, but then revised its statement to read she had died of injuries "suffered from a non-combat related incident" at Bagram Airfield. The statement had no specifics and said the circumstances are under investigation.

Durkin had a desk job doing payroll in an office about three miles inside the secure Bagram Air Base. About 90 minutes after she left work last Friday, her family says she was found dead near a chapel on the base with a single gunshot wound to the head.

Sources: CBS/AP/OccNEWS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/world/main3328739.shtml

not so friendly fire.

methinkz that if the Military investigate themselves.. they are going to find nothing.

I think she died from a gunshot wound to the head, duh.

I wonder what she found and if she gave it to anyone for safe keeping. I sure fucking hope so.

I wonder what she found and if she gave it to anyone for safe keeping. I sure fucking hope so.

Given that she was in a finance unit, it would seem that she found some sort of fiscal malfeasance within some military unit or another. Probably someone was embezzling funds, perhaps even reconstruction funds, maybe high up on the chain of command, maybe low on the chain.

Given that she wasn't being open about it to her family, I would consider it likely that she probably found it probably somewhere around the Colonel level.

I wonder what she found and if she gave it to anyone for safe keeping. I sure fucking hope so.

I bet it was the governments evil alien experiments in Afghanistan involving mutiliating crops and forming cattle into circles.

Seriously though, until something definite comes up, I'd take everything with a grain or two of salt. It probably wasnt anything MAJOR, to do with the US government, 'cause then this maybe-hit-job would've been cleaner.
As has been mentioned, maybe embezzlement, maybe some local official corruption. Mayber her senior is running a barracks brothel or something.
IF this was, say, the US government abducting Afghani's for medical research, I think she'd have been found washed up on Cuba having died from a drug overdose or something.

It probably wasnt anything MAJOR, to do with the US government, ‘cause then this maybe-hit-job would’ve been cleaner.

Unless they made it look like a shoddy hit to disguise the fact it was a major do....

Scully?

SCUUULLLLYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Unless they made it look like a shoddy hit to disguise the fact it was a major do....

Scully?

SCUUULLLLYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Conspiaracies within conspiracies! Within more conspiracies! And all those were coverups for the REAL conspiracy which was actually a conspiracy to cover up the alien conspiracy to destroy the original conspiracy that was hiding a conspiracy to conspire against the fourth conspiracy.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Conspiaracies within conspiracies! Within more conspiracies! And all those were coverups for the REAL conspiracy which was actually a conspiracy to cover up the alien conspiracy to destroy the original conspiracy that was hiding a conspiracy to conspire against the fourth conspiracy.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Whooooooooooooa. That's so...trippy.

:D

Sounds like she stumbled upon a major embezzlement of US Army or Afghani aid funds. Perhaps perpetrated by a senior officer. A scandal like that would destroy any career officer's ambitions of power and influence.

According to the article she was also gay. Perhaps the internal investigation may decide to concentrate on that aspect, for whatever reason.