Soldier warns "Investigate if I die" then is found dead.

Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, "If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated."

What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within the fortified walls of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is releasing no details aside from confirmation that Durkin's was a "non-combat" death.

'I discovered some things I don’t like and I made some enemies because of it.' Then she said, in her light-hearted way, 'If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated,'"

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I can't believe this. She was in a secure base and they found her with a single shot in the head. She worked in the finance unit on the base and said she found something that would create enemies.

The military is also being stiff to the family denying autopsy results and denying a private autopsy. The military is being slow to act and quiet about this. Are they covering something up.

They got Sen. Kerry helping them resolve this and the process is still taking a long time.

What do yall think? An accident or maybe she knew too much?

Doesn't suprise me, thats how the government works. I think they did that to Pat Tillman's family too. If I was a soldier, I'd warn my family about it too. In a fortified area, you'd expect to feel safe, unless the government wants ya dead.

This is going to sound harsh,
but it's honest.

In a combat situation, you mess
with people, you get frag'ed.

There is no tolerance for "I know
this, I'll tell".

You do your job. Period.

She had an agenda, made it known
and paid the price.

Do I advocate this ?
Once, years ago, yes.
I'm no longer military.

Now, it seems tragic.

Oddly, I'm happy I can distance
myself.

Take what I say, as you will,
Lex

Feeling secure in a base does not make you immune to everyday life. Can even get killed just staying home.

Of course you can but how many times do you tell family that you might die and if you do its fishy?

I am just saying it was on the base so that limits who had access to her.

Its ironic tho


The same people that killed her will (giving that there is an investigation ) will be the ones investigating her death

This is not such a shock to me either.

This is just another confirmation to the truth of why we have a presents in Afghanistan.

Its just more obvious to see the truth now and just like everything else we can only hope that this gets blown wide open but not likely.

What was it do you suppose that she found? The only think I can think of is American complicity with opium production in Afghanistan.

Sounds to me like she made some enemies. I really doubt it's a government cover-up because she knew something she shouldn't. She made some people mad and they decided to kill her. If it WAS the government they would have done it while she was driving in the US and make it look like a accident, not a place where a huge investigating would take place.

I would have left a note along with some proof.. something, anything besides... investigate the military.. I mean come on.. The military police themselves.. we cant walk in there and say.. we want a full report on everything that happened here to find what she found..

Originally posted by Lexion
This is going to sound harsh,
but it's honest.

In a combat situation, you mess
with people, you get frag'ed.

There is no tolerance for "I know
this, I'll tell".

You do your job. Period.

She had an agenda, made it known
and paid the price.

Do I advocate this ?
Once, years ago, yes.
I'm no longer military.

Now, it seems tragic.

Oddly, I'm happy I can distance
myself.

Take what I say, as you will,
Lex

i appreciate your perspective Lex, and you are entitled to it, but i think that IS a bit harsh there mate.



But anyway, it is my opinion that she may have stumbled across some kind of information regarding who is financing certain parts of the war effort or similar, she did work in the finance department so this would only make sense. someone should try to track down her family and see if they were told anything....

Is it for certain that she did not take her own life? There are many conclusions being drawn here without at least this one very important highly relevant fact being established.

[edit on 10/4/2007 by TheAvenger]

If the interests of national security, or even the less important interests of covering some higher ups butt cant convince someone to keep their mouths shut, then maybe it is something worth telling about?

I have been given the "its for the good of everyone, so shut up" speech, and agreed based upon the situation... obviously this wasn't something that could be justified the same way...

seeing how she was in the finance area, then i would assume she encountered something dealing with the Black project funds being made from heroin. Personally, that is one big scary egg to fry, and considering that everyone already knows we are dealing heroin, to keep the afghanis happy, then its the 800 pound gorilla in the living room anyway... (are you going to ask it to leave?)
probably a paranoid reaction from some military upper...
very sad, and seems very suspicious....

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I think the fact that DoD is being less than transparent about this presupposes the possibility of suicide.

#, she knew something. Instead of saying "investigate", she should have spilled it, seeing she was going to die anyway. What did she really think? That an "investigation" would have happened if it was a conspiracy matter? Oh please... I have been on earth longer than that!

Of course they are not going to release if it was a NATO round or not. Knowing the gov not tying their loose ends, it was probably a 5.56 or 9mm. Or, 7.62 if they were smart about it. But, how would a 7.62 be fired in a private base? I dont know of many rifles, non modified, that takes a 7.62 and is suppressed. I know 5.56 or 9mm are easy to get a hold of suppressed.

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Maybe that will be the official story. It seems like quite a few people who make these kind of enemies end up killing themselves.

This really doesn't shock me, as it seems to not have shocked others.

Don't you think it's a little frightening that we've gotten to that point? That we've gotten to a point where we're not even shocked when our own military or government has one of our own soldiers killed off for knowing too much?

Anyway, like KATSUO said, she should have left some note or something explaining what she knows. At least tell the family to only open it if she dies or something. That would have helped a lot in the investigation.

But yeah, I'd have to agree with others here about it probably having something to do with the opium. Seems logical.

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Being shocked won't change anything. As has been the case in most other times in history the best thing to keep in mind is the old admonition to "watch your back".

This is really sad. What has happened to the world? We have a guy who won the presidency baed on the fact that he was a rich kid whose dad had been president. He'd never really had to work for anything - turned out like most rich kids, offspring of the famous - stuck up and dumb - formed a malicious and incompetent administration and drove this country into the ground for money, power and prestige. Often invoking the Christian faith to do so.

I'm not sure if there is a heaven or hell - but if there is i'm sure 'they' are going to be going to the hot place - probably telling themselves 'i'm doing it for my country' the whole time - a sort of denial.

massive immigration raids are taking place across the country - and no one is doing a thing. as a society we are slowly rolling backwards - sort of like an updated Medeval Ages and it's just really sad.

the way our economy is structured, oil, tobacco (how is it that cigarettes are legal, so is moonshine but pot's not? hint - because the dea has an easier time catching pot heads and thus inflating their arrest numbers to keep their budget intact).

russia, china, iran, cuba, we used to be different from these guys. this case, along w/ pat tillman's case are really depressing indicators of where our country is headed.

my father fought in world war 2. saw war up close, unlike w, cheney, rush, etc. everything he taught me, everything they fought for was for the opposite of what is happening now. we now sadly live in a fascist state, and as a long time american history/political junkie, i must say, i don't really care what happens to this country anymore.

where is our moral compass? our leadership? what have we become? we used to be a beacon of hope to the rest of the world, now we're just like the bad guys.

i hate to say it but i think the 'bad guys' have won. the only justice we can hope for is that there really is a 'big guy' upstairs, keeping track of his creations, and that he will judge those who have taken his name, his teachings, and used them in the advancement of their own evil agendas.

i feel bad for this planet, thank god for ats

I find it odd that while this should be a big story, I didn't see anything about it in the papers today.

I have a bad feeling that this will become a non-event and never receive the attention is deserves.