After 9/11, a Fatal 24/7 -LAT (counter-terrorism toll on agents)

[Rose Siding]

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There, she found Doucette lying motionless on the bed, a tiny spot of blood behind his right ear. He had shot himself with his FBI-issue, 9-millimeter pistol. She reached for the nightstand and a phone to call 911. But the line was dead; Brad had yanked it from the wall.
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Doucette had spent nearly 20 years at the FBI. At the time of his death, he was head of an elite unit at bureau headquarters that investigates suspected espionage by Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and other Shiite Muslim extremists.

FBI officials declined to comment on whether Doucette's suicide was related to his work. They said there were no statistics on job-related stress among counter-terrorism agents.
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Aside from a paid obituary in his hometown newspaper in Little Falls, Minn., Doucette's death did not make the news. But it was all the talk inside the FBI, from Los Angeles to bureau headquarters in Washington.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III visited the Doucette home three times, once to hand-deliver letters from President Bush and then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-counter3may03,0,3265740.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[peacetalksforall]

1. After all this time...the U.S. is crazy. We've been fighting terrorists

for years instead of trying to make peace. We kill them, they kill us, lots and lots commit suicide, more are running. We lose our young and their limbs, minds, immune systems, peace of minds, families, hopes.

But our PNAC and our cabal profiteers just keep bulldozing along using all our human resources because they can't tolerate peace because it isn't profitable; they can't tolerate letting people of different countries own their own earth recources. They think they are being the realistic ones, that God wants it that way.

Some people believe that there will always be a war, therefore it is OK to use other peoples sons and daughters.

Someone should rewrite our Pledge of Alligiance and Star Spangled Banner to tell it like it really is - we should pledge and sing about a corporate battlefield instead of what it could be - one country sharing in a planet of peace, trade, opportunity, sharing.

[LoneDriver]

2. No exit wound?

Close range, behind the ear with a 9mm and there is only a tiny entry wound. Uh-huh, yeah right.