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Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.
The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.”
Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And in February, it rescued a 5-year-old boy held hostage for six da
Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.” A law enforcement source told The Pilot the incident happened about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The official blamed bad weather for the incident and said the agents – members of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, based in Quantico – fell into the water. The official said he believed the agents died as a result of the impact rather than drowning. Glenn McBride, a spokesman for the state medical examiner’s office, said it could be months before his staff can release a final cause and manner of death for the two agents. He said they must wait for the results of routine toxicology tests. According to a Navy official, the agents were using a ship the FBI had leased from the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. No Navy personnel were involved in the exercise, the Navy official said.
Originally posted by MrJohnSmith
reply to post by DarthFazer
Respectfully, this may have been nothing more than a coincidence, a tragic accident ?
Originally posted by MrJohnSmith
reply to post by DarthFazer
Respectfully, this may have been nothing more than a coincidence, a tragic accident ?
Originally posted by creatives
reply to post by DarthFazer
This is reminiscent of all the members of SEAL Team 6 that killed Bin Laden that died in mysterious, unexplained ‘accidents’.
What is it they say, there is no such thing as a coincidence or an accident.edit on 23-5-2013 by creatives because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by olaru12
reply to post by DarthFazer
Combine your thread with this thread...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
and it begins to look very strange!!
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
This whole thing reeks of Oswald/Ruby and the basement shooting. How many dead people does it take to keep a cover-up going? Let's find out...
edit on 5/23/2013 by this_is_who_we_are because: typo
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
This whole thing reeks of Oswald/Ruby and the basement shooting. How many dead people does it take to keep a cover-up going? Let's find out...
edit on 5/23/2013 by this_is_who_we_are because: typo
Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed in the incident Friday. Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, a group known most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from a kidnapper in an underground bunker.
In 2011, two team members helped apprehend a Somali man who prosecutors say is the highest-ranking pirate whom federal officials have ever captured. Mohammad Saaili Shibin was the chief negotiator for a group of pirates who took four Americans hostage aboard their yacht and later killed them. Unlike the other pirates in the case, Shibin was arrested in Somalia. In August, a federal judge sentenced Shibin to a dozen life sentences.
Domestically, their resume includes rescuing nine hostages held at a federal prison in Talladega, Ala. in 1991 by Cuban inmates who were rioting to prevent their return to Cuba. In February, members of the team rescued a 5-year-old boy from a small underground bunker where he was being held hostage by a 65-year-old man. The kidnapper was killed by agents.
Originally posted by Another_Nut
Wow. We should have seen this coming
There have now been more deaths associated with the bombing than were killed in the actual blast.
Does this not scream coverup?
Does this not show loose ends being tied up?
Eta it's not a Boston bombing thread without boncho to tell us to move along.
where is he?
edit on 23-5-2013 by Another_Nut because: (no reason given)edit on 23-5-2013 by Another_Nut because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AQuestion
reply to post by DarthFazer
Dear DarthFazer,
Please don't jump to conclusions. It said the unit was involved in Tsarnaev's arrest, not that they were. How big is the anti-terrorism unit of the FBI, I am guessing it is pretty big. Not everyone in the unit was involved in the arrest.