Shot arms dealer ‘knew too much’

[kpete]

Source: TIMES UK

February 22, 2009
Shot arms dealer ‘knew too much’
Dale Stoffel told top brass of endemic corruption before his hit-style murder
Sarah Baxter in Washington

THE death of an American arms dealer in Iraq has led to one of the most intricate and far-reaching inquiries into corruption among US military officers in Iraq. Some suspect that he was killed because he was a whistleblower who knew too much.

When Dale Stoffel, 43, was gunned down on his way into Baghdad at the height of the insurgency in Iraq, his murder appeared all too predictable. He was an adventurer who seemed to have met his end at the hands of jihadists while engaged in one of the riskiest businesses on the planet.

However, it has emerged that Stoffel had complained to US authorities about a multi-million-dollar contracting office where two senior American officers had worked. The two officers are now under investigation.

Stoffel’s death in 2004, along with that of Joseph Wemple, 49, his friend and colleague, had all the hallmarks of an assassination. His black BMW was found with the bonnet smashed and windscreen shattered in a grim part of the Iraqi capital near the banks of the Tigris.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5780478.ece

[fascisthunter]

1. think of all those weapons that were sold... who were they sold to?

there's an inconvenient truth.

[rolltideroll]

2. Whoever had money.The man was an Arms dealer.

Not known for their background checks.

[KG]

3. what do you call 2 dead arms dealers? a good start.

[L. Coyote]

4. What do you call an assassinated whistle blower?

[AndyTiedye]

5. A Dead Duck. We Need More Live Canaries Singing and Fewer Dead Ducks, Dammit

[rolltideroll]

9. Dale Stoffel apparently

[blm]

8. except this was a WHISTLEBLOWING armsdealer.....big difference.

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[Historic NY]

6. follow the missing money!!!

[Peace Patriot]

7. Oh, God, I just despair at the amount of crimes the Bushwhacks surely committed in the

deliberate chaos that Rumsfeld created in Iraq.

I'm glad at least some of them are being looked into. But I'm afraid that 99% of it involves dead whistleblowers, witnesses, journalists and others whose deaths have effectively hidden many mind-boggling horrors, massive thefts and plots we know not of. I think the same may be true of Guantanamo Bay and secret prisons around the world. We have no idea who was really being targeted, to what ends.

Consider this: Valerie Plame was head of a worldwide network of agents/contacts in foreign countries involved in monitoring illicit movement of WMDS and countering such traffic. The Bushwhacks not only outed her, and destroyed that network of vital "eyes and ears" on WMD proliferation, they additionally outed her front company, Brewster-Jennings, putting the lives of all of those agents/contacts at great risk. And this was a time at which WMD proliferation was a particular danger. What this tells me is that the Bushwhacks would do anything--anything!--to achieve their goals of mind-boggling riches and power.