US Staff Sgt. Anthony Warigi was a veteran of the Afghan war on leave in his native Kenya when a “shady” altercation at a bar reportedly ended in a deadly gunfight. Mysteriously, Army casualty notification officers notified Warigi’s family in Kenya a day after the attack Army officials were at the hospital immediately after the attack and collected evidence, including performing their own autopsy.
His friends and family thought he may have been targeted for his money in a simple mugging or because he was a US soldier, a cause for resentment in Kenya, apparently. Stranger still, when Wagiri’s family contacted the Army Criminal Investigation Command, a spokesperson said “To protect the integrity of the investigation, we are not releasing details of the investigation at this time.”
Wagiri was promoted to staff sergeant in June 2010, and given the expanded US role in east Africa in recent months, his loved ones are beginning to suspect his death was the result of a military mission gone wrong. In keeping with the new US strategy to keep Americans in the dark about foreign policy, especially in east Africa, the US Army is mum on the true nature of his death…even to the deceased own family.
This whole "Africa Command" thing has me uneasy. The continent has so many unstable places. It is so vulnerable to the type of "meddling" Washington favors. The opportunities to make trouble here are endless for the pentagon – and to keep the budget money flowing for itself.
To the Warigi family…good luck getting the facts about the loss of your family member. Perhaps someday, long in the future, after all the responsible ones are long dead and in their graves, the real truth might come out…but probably not. Check with the Tillmans…
US policy is above any human reality on earth. Past present and future. The greatest and most important reality History has ever known. Just ask members of Congress (in the US a congress is spelled in capitals, of course – the greatness might not be seen naturally by it's reptile population if it was not spelled with a starting capital letter).
No lousy family shall ever be allowed to disturb that (virtual) reality! Of the greatness of a big nation built on reptile brains activity!
Pat Tillman 2.0
There was no Africom before the Obama. So is this new US territory called Kenya, a gift from he Obama-connection?
Ma Green not getting enough 'knowledgeable' troops under the colors they need some US recruiters 'working' the village markets over there, too?
We can thank Bush for AFRICOM, created in 2007.
This article is all CRAP! I am his Mother in law, and let me tell you there are a lot of lies in this article.
Julie,
If there are "lots of lies" in this article, presumably you can identify at least one. And if you know it's a lie, and if you really are his mother-in-law, then perhaps you can contrast that lie with the truth that you know.