ABC News has released some very dramatic video from the CIA of the shootdown in Peru nine years ago of a U.S. missionaries’ plane wrongly suspected to be drug smugglers.
CIA pilots can be heard expressing doubt that drug smugglers are flying the small plane, but their questions are overlooked because of language issues.
Once the military plane begins shooting, the ill-fated pilot can be heard shouting that his plane is on fire.
Rather than drugs, the plane was carrying a Michigan missionary family who were flying back to Peru from Brazil. They eventually crash into a river. Veronica Bowers, and her infant daughter were killed by bullets fired in the initial attack. Her husband and six-year-old son, as well as the pilot, survived.
After a nine year investigation, the CIA “determined that 16 CIA employees should be disciplined, including the woman then in charge of counter-narcotics.”
















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what utter idiots, (1) they should learn the language (2) its a futile war (3) trigger happy miscommunication : a hammer in search of a nail
hotdamn … betcha those rootin’ tootin’ bully boyz are still sprouting boners thinking about shooting down a plane of missionaries. including a mother and her infant daughter.
booyah, mofos!!!