European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages stars and stripes sunday april 1 2007 general tried to warn Bush of Tillman circumstances Mcchrystal acted to avoid Public embarrassment by Scott Lindlaw the associated press san Jose Calif for weeks after his death the Pentagon maintained that Pat Tillman was killed in an enemy ambush even after a top general tried to warn presi Dent Bush that the nil Likely died by Friendly fire according to a memo obtained by the associated press in the memo sent to Superior officer seven Days after Tilk nans death it Gen Stanley Mcchrystal warned that the evidence strongly pointed to Friendly fire and the nations leaders risked embarrassing themselves if they publicly said otherwise i Felt that it was essential that you received this information As soon As we detected it in order to preclude any unknowing state ments by our country leaders which might cause Public embarrassment if the circumstances of Cpl Tillmans death become pub Lic Mcchrystal wrote the april 29 2004 memo was addressed to Gen John Abizaid head of Central command and was intended As a warning to Bush and acting army Secretary Les Brownlee it is not Clear whether Bush or Brownlee received the warning in speeches following the memo Bush avoided any reference to the circumstances of Tillmans death the family was not told until it Gen Stanley Mcchrystal May 29 2004 what really happened in the intervening weeks the military continued to say Tillman died under enemy fire and even awarded him the Silver Star which is Given for heroic Battlefield action White House spokesman Blain Rethmeier said Friday that a re View of records turned up no Indi cation that the president had received Mcchrystal warning Tillmans Mother Mary said saturday the newly disclosed Docu ment demonstrates Bush was complicit in deceiving her family he knew it was Friendly fire in the very beginning and he never intervened to help and he essentially has covered up a crime in order to promote the War Mary Tillman said in a Telephone inter View All of this was done for or purposes president Bush Pat Tillman australian Detainee at Gizmo gets 9 months for supporting terrorism by Michael Melia the associated press Guantanamo Bay naval base Cuba an australian who complained of his treatment at the us prison at Guantanamo was convicted of supporting terrorism but will spend less than a year in jail at Home in a Deal that requires his silence about alleged abuse David Hicks 31 who has spent More than five years at Guantanamo was the first of hundreds of foreign terror suspects held at the isolated prison in Southeast Cuba to be convicted a Case that also marked the first us War crimes conviction since world War Al he was tried by a military Tribu Nal under a system created by president Bush after the sept 11 2001 attacks that has been widely criticized As a violation of the prisoners right to Challenge their confinement in us courts australian prime minister John Howard said the verdict Vin David Hicks dictated what his government had said that Hicks was a danger Ous terrorist but his father Terry Hicks called the Light sen tence amazing Given that the americans have been touting David As the worst of the worst somethings not right it shows How weak the evidence is in this charade he said Hicks had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison he entered a guilty plea monday night but he was not formally convicted until the judge accepted his plea at fridays session a panel of officers flown to Guantanamo for the sentencing Hicks deliberated for two hours before approving a sentence of seven years the maximum Al Lowed under the plea Deal after they left the courtroom the judge Marine corps col Ralph Kohlmann revealed All but nine months would be suspended asked if the outcome was what he was told to expect Hicks said yes it was the plea Deal will Send Hicks to a prison in Australia within 60 Days his sentence begins immediately but Guantanamo com Manders said there would be no change in his detention conditions before his departure time to change in Iraq a Day later than planned Baghdad Iraq found itself temporarily split into two time zones on saturday when the us military set its clocks ahead an hour while the iraqi government decided to wait a Day to Spring for Ward the confusion apparently stemmed from too much Advance plan Ning the iraqi government issued a statement two weeks ago saying that Daylight saving time would begin on March 31 by going for Ward one hour so that pm Friday becomes am Satur Day the american military set its clocks Forward but the iraqi Cabi net apparently changed its mind the clock on state run iraqi a to stayed set at Winter time three hours ahead of Greenwich mean time the station later announced that the government had decided to change the time As of april 1 so iraqis will lose an hour of sleep on sunday instead the Cabinet office confirmed the time change would occur on sunday 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