Vaccines May Have Caused A Soldier's Death

No. 587-06 June 22, 2006
Vaccines May Have Caused A Soldier's Death

A panel of military physician experts has concluded that vaccinations may have caused the death of a 26-year-old Army soldier.

The soldier...
Pfc. Christopher “Justin” Abston, received smallpox and injectable influenza vaccines in November 2005, at Fort Bragg, N.C., 16 days before suffering sudden death in his barracks room.

Following evaluation of multiple specialized test results, the panel considered a cause-and-effect relationship to be “possible.” The smallpox vaccine received by Abston is known to cause an inflammation of the heart muscle or myocarditis, a condition found at his autopsy.

Evidence of the vaccinia virus, the main ingredient of smallpox vaccine, was not found in his heart muscle, but evidence of a different virus, parvovirus B19, was found. Natural infection with parvovirus B19 is another known cause of heart inflammation and death. The expert panel cautioned that the findings pointing to vaccinations were neither probable nor unlikely, but they do suggest the possibility that the vaccines may have caused Abston’s death.

Among the one million military personnel given smallpox vaccine since December 2002, 120 developed myocarditis or similar conditions, but none of them died. DoD screens all personnel to be given smallpox vaccinations and about eight percent are excluded due to screening criteria. It also advises all smallpox vaccine recipients, who develop chest pain after smallpox vaccination to seek medical care without delay. In the 120 cases mentioned above, such chest pain most often occurred in the first three weeks after smallpox vaccination.

The DoD conducts its smallpox vaccination program to protect troops assigned to U.S. Central Command, U.S. Forces Korea, or designated units with homeland defense missions.
(Above taken from DOD - Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs - News Release)

FBI Arrests Seven suspected of planning attacks on federal offices in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago

... Seven men, some of whom lived in a Liberty City, Fla., warehouse, have been arrested as potential homegrown terrorist sympathizers who discussed blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI headquarters in Miami-Dade County, multiple sources told The Miami Herald on Thursday. They posed no immediate danger to the community...
Read story in full at Kentucky.com

Update: Friday, June 23, 2006
>>> TheOlympian.com
... Said Gonzales: "The convergence of globalization and technology has created a new brand of terrorism. Today terrorist threats come from smaller more loosely defined cells not affiliated with al-Qaida but who are inspired by a violent jihadist message, and left unchecked these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaida..."
Alleged terror plot dramatizes kind of threats U.S. now faces, says Gonzales

>>> Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the Press Conference on Florida Terrorism Indictments
Washington, D.C., June 23, 2006
Click HERE to read in full

I will but a video up of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Press Conference when I run across one...
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DoD Identifies Army Casualties

No. 588-06 June 22, 2006
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in the vicinity of Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained on or about June 16. Both soldiers were previously listed as Duty Status – Whereabouts Unknown. Their unit came under enemy small-arms fire while manning a checkpoint during combat operations, and both soldiers were taken by enemy forces. Both soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Killed were:
Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.
Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of San Marcos, Texas

This incident is under investigation.
For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.

DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

No. 585-06 June 22, 2006
DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of four Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Killed were:
Cpl. Christopher D. Leon, 20, of Lancaster, Calif.
Lance Cpl. Brandon J. Webb, 20, of Swartz Creek, Mich.
Pfc. Christopher N. White, 23, of Southport, N.C.
Staff Sgt. Benjamin D. Williams, 30, of Orange, Texas

Leon died June 20 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.

Webb, White, and Williams all died June 20 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. They were all assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Media with questions about Leon can call the Okinawa Public Affairs Office at 011-81-611-745-0790. Media with questions about Webb, White, and Williams can call the Camp Pendleton Public Affairs Office at (760) 725-5044

Airman Missing from Vietnam War is Identified

No. 586-06 June 22, 2006
Airman Missing from Vietnam War is Identified

The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that a U.S. Air Force officer missing in action from the Vietnam War has been identified and is being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is...
Maj. John F. Conlon III, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
His funeral is tentatively scheduled for Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., in the fall.

On March 4, 1966 Conlon and another crewmember took off from Qui Nhon Air Field, Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, in their O-1E Bird Dog light observation aircraft. They were on a visual reconnaissance mission to Cheo Reo, an airstrip approximately 60 miles southwest of Qui Nhon. The last radio contact with the crew was with a U.S. Special Forces Camp about 30 minutes after take-off. The crew reported the aircraft’s position but made no mention of problems. When the aircraft failed to arrive at Cheo Reo, a search and rescue effort was initiated, but failed to find the aircraft or crew after six days of searching.

Between May of 1993 and August of 2005 teams from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) conducted six investigations in the Binh Dinh Province. They developed leads which took them to a site which was later scheduled for excavation.

In February of 2006 a joint JPAC-Vietnamese team excavated that site and found aircraft debris, personal effects, human remains and a dog tag that related to Conlon’s crew. JPAC scientists used Conlon’s dental records to confirm his identity from those remains excavated at the site.

Of those Americans unaccounted-for from all conflicts, 1,803 are from the Vietnam War.
(Above courtesy of DoD - DPMO)

Coalition Troops to Leave Muthanna Province in Iraq

About Photo: Al Muthanna Provincial Council Chairman Sheikh Asaad Abdul Amir Al Duainee (left,) Governor Mohammed-Ali Hassan Abbas al Hassani, and U.S. Air Force Brig Gen. Rudy Wright ready for a press conference in Samawah, Iraq, June 22, 2006. (Photo by Jim Garamone)

... All coalition troops will leave Iraq's Muthanna province by the end of July, making it the country's first province to be responsible for its own security since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi officials said here today...
Read story in full HERE

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U.S. has found around 500 WMD Munitions in Iraq, a New Report Shows

New Declassified Documents show that the U.S. has found around 500 WMD Munitions in Iraq...

These are not weapons of new, (the ones we were looking for during the invasion of Iraq in 2003,) but some old ones left over and hidden pre-Gulf War. But on the other hand.........

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"... The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction is in fact false... We have found over 500 weapons of mass destruction and in fact have found that there are additional chemical weapons still in the country,” Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said during a press conference today...
Read more on topic at:
>>> The Conservative Voice

>>> Fox News...
...The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered...
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

>>> Radioblogger.com...
... Senator Rick Santorum: “It is my impression that there have been a number of such discoveries. It's my impression that this is a very dangerous situation in Iraq, with the number of chemical weapons still believed to exist out there, and the threat that they might in fact get into the wrong hands. So Saddam, it is clear, from this report, had lots of chemical weapons around, and that people got their hands on them. So this is exactly what we were concerned about, that Saddam in fact had large stockpiles of chemical weapons, and would in fact...those chemical weapons could in fact get into the hands of people who would like to do harm to America...”
Now this is some good stuff... Be sure to click it out......
Senator Rick Santorum announces WMD HAS been found in Iraq
(With- Audio, Transcript, links and more)
(HT to Paul at Prying1)

>>> Michelle Malkin...
... Emerging buzz seems to be focused on why it took so long to release info about 500 chemical-weapons shells found in Iraq...
CHEMICAL MUNITIONS IN IRAQ
(With Video, Links and more)

More to come as more info comes out...
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