Sheryl Crow Was Killed on April 3, 1996

[bbkings]

Sheryl Crow was killed on the same aircraft that took the life of former United States Secretary of comerce, Ron Brown:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown_(U.S._politician)


On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. While attempting an instrument approach to Èilipi airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. Everyone aboard was killed in the crash except for a single survivor in the tail section, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, who died while being transported to a hospital. The final Air Force investigation attributed this to pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach.


Today her double mentions how she narrowly escaped getting on that ill-fated airplane.


Bosnia a war zone when Hillary visited in 1996

Richard Rapaport

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

It is difficult to say which is the lower form of political life: the "horse race" aspect of this year's presidential campaign or the nit-picking over which candidate has trimmed their oratorical sails to most precisely match their resume. Forgive me, but I am about to contribute to the general electoral aridity by adding my own nit, and a dozen-year-old one at that.

The point of contention is the debate over whether Hillary Rodham Clinton was, as she stated, "under fire" when she landed at Eagle Base in Tuzla, Bosnia, in March 1996. This would be a footnote of a footnote, except that Clinton's veracity on the point is being used to club her presidential campaign into submission. This may or may not be a good idea, but it is an argument that, in all fairness, should be hoisted on another, sturdier, petard.

Bluntly, Clinton's trip to Tuzla was a hell of a lot riskier, not to mention more successful than George W. Bush's May 2003 "mission accomplished" landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Ten days before the Clinton party arrived in Tuzla, I had flown there on an Air National Guard C-130 with photographer Ed Kashi. The assignment was to write a story about Task Force Eagle, which, under Major General Bill Nash, was pacifying the Tuzla Valley and most especially de-fanging the Bosnian Serb army.

These beasts had, until weeks earlier, done their worst to finish turning the Tuzla Valley into a corpse-littered wasteland. Onboard the flight from Frankfurt, Germany, we were given flak jackets to don once we had entered Bosnian airspace. There was a lively debate over whether it was better to wear the proffered helmets on our heads, or place them under our seat. Given the Bosnia Serb propensity to take potshots at planes landing and taking off from the Tuzla air base, it was agreed that the latter was a more life-enhancing strategy.

Eagle Base was a "hot" landing zone. When our plane touched down, the C-130's rear cargo door opened, and we were encouraged to sprint to the base's sandbag-reinforced terminal. The plane was unloaded and reloaded in war-zone fashion - with engines running.

The Dayton Accords may have been signed the previous December, but when we arrived in Tuzla that March, the place was still at war. If there were no actual gunfire raining down from the hills around Eagle Base, then the hills were alive with fanatics from the Bosnian Serb army. They were angry at the American intervention, well-armed and zealous enough to have considered bagging a first lady or even a second-rate comedian. Nor did the fact that Sinbad and Sheryl Crow were along with us as USO entertainers render Hillary Clinton's visit risk-less.

Early spring 1996 was a tense, defining moment in Bosnia. Serb snipers were still plying their sickening trade over the mountains in Sarajevo, and word was beginning to spread about the genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at a village called Srebrenica. In the minds of many combatants, the Yugoslavian war was not yet finished. The tang of revenge hung in the air like the American Apache helicopters saturating the Tuzla Valley.

Along with the possibility of an attack like the mortar round that had slammed into Tuzla's marketplace the previous May, killing 71 and injuring 150, came the nonmilitary dangers inherent in a war zone. Nine days later, on April 3, the point was tragically brought home when a plane carrying U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown took off from Tuzla and crashed into a mountainside killing Brown and 30 other Americans.

It is thus silly and degrading to argue about the inherent dangers of traveling to Bosnia in March 1996. As well protected as she was, Hillary Clinton did take risks to go there. They were, however, risks worth taking. The Bosnia intervention was among the Clinton administration's finest hours. Under Gen. Nash's stern gaze, American forces saved the lives of tens of thousands of Bosnians, who are among the world's few Muslims who still cherish the United States and regard Americans as saviors.

Richard Rapaport is a San Francisco Bay Area writer. He can be reached at [e-mail].

I also find it interesting that the comedian Sinbad also suppossedly missed that ill-fated flight, but was later rumored to have died as well.
www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/sinbad.htm

[lostworld]

^
Very interesting, thanks!

And welcome to the forum!
The more the merrier...


Now, what's really striking here - just as when you compare Paul and Faul - is the big change in personality:
Shery was cool and fun, Feryl is not...

[beatlies]

Great find, bbkings, thank you.

I recall reading a long time ago something about Sheryl Crow being linked to the CIA.

That plane crash happened in the midst of heavy US involvement in creating the breakup/war/attempted genocides of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Croatian militias that were formed (covertly by the US and Germany through the CIA and BND), and created a secessionist Croatia from Yugoslavia, were filled at the top levels with fascists and neo-nazis.

The NYT Frankfort bureau chief reporter was also killed (assassinated) in that sabotaged plane. Frankfort was and is the CIA headquarters in West Germany, and they are now known to have conducted horrific medical experiments/torture sessions there of suspected Russian spies/leftists AFTER the war in the 1950s/60s, and mind control research, done by the American CIA using ex-Nazi doctors and gestapo, in the old IG Farben building (supplier company fof zyklon b gas for Auschwitz and builder of the camp and other Nazi death camps).

Did the CIA want to "get" that NYT Frankfort reporter for something he was about to report, maybe in relation to the still nazified-Germany, the forced breakup of Yugoslavia, and Nazi holocaust criminals still at work? Did they want to "get" Ron Brown as the highest ranking Black person in the Clinton administration (and a celebrity role model for Black america) who might have also had something to spill about such "sensitive" matters?

[sherlok]

This is what the USAF spokesperson said about that crash:
"In summary, our investigation found this aircraft accident had multiple
causes, failure of command, aircrew error, and an improperly designed
instrument approach procedure. We identified inadequate theater
specific training as a substantially contributing factor. Like most
accidents, multiple causes resulted in the tragedy any one of which
had it not existed would have prevented this accident."

TRANSLATION:
"We shot it down."

The USAF also said:
"No passenger manifest was found after this accident. A
passenger list had to be reconstructed by the U.S. Embassy in
Zagreb. "

TRANSLATION:
"You'll never find out all the names of those murdered in that
crash."



Source:
cryptome.info/0001/ct43-060796.htm

[beatlies]

Ron Brown: 10 Years and No Questions


Ron Brown

TWA Flight 800

General

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Posted: March 10, 2006

Ron Brown died when his Air Force Plane crashed into a Croatian hillside on April 3, 1996. Ten years later, the cliché headline reads like this, “Unanswered Questions Haunt Death of Ron Brown.”

The real headline should read as follows, “Unasked Questions Haunt Death of Ron Brown.” The subhead might read, “Journalistic Integrity Also Dies in Crash.”

I believe that I am the only reporter to have requested the Air Force’s 22-volume report, let alone read it. It falls to me, I fear, to use the occasion of the tenth anniversary to raise the questions that other media have not troubled themselves to ask.

Let me name some names. When my book Ron Brown’s Body came out in 2004, I flew to Washington to interest some key people in its newsworthy elements. If nothing else, the fact that Brown died to broker a sweetheart deal on behalf of the newly notorious Enron should have gotten their attention. There was, of course, much more.

The one person I most wanted to talk to was Colby King, the minority affairs reporter for the Washington Post. I scheduled a breakfast meeting with him at the Madison, right across the street from The Post on May 14. I built the rest of my schedule around that meeting.

I had gotten a sense of the story’s importance in the black community a few weeks earlier at my local, central city Post Office. The clerk, a Morgan Freeman look-alike, asked me if the packages I was sending were books. When I said, “Yes,” he asked me if I had written them. I said “Yes” again. “Oh, what are they about?” he asked amiably. “About the life and death of Ron Brown?” I answered.

The clerk slowly looked up from what he was doing and asked me with cinematic coolness, “Did they kill him?” The other clerks and customers heard the exchange. And for the next ten minutes, all work came to a halt while I answered his question. That is why I contacted Colby King first.

Interest in the black community had remained keen despite the fact that the media had not touched the Ron Brown story in more than six years. How the story vanished without resolution is worth a book in itself.

Twenty months after the crash, on December 3, 1997, the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review broke a story headlined, “Experts Differ on Ron Brown Head Wound.” The article covered many of the more damning details of the case, including the “lead snowstorm” on Brown’s head X-Rays and what an Armed Force Institute of Pathology (AFIP) doctor matter-of-factly called “an apparent gunshot wound.”

One does well to remember that during the Clinton years the major media’s reflex was to slander whistleblowers. And so predictably, on December 6, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post gleefully cited the Tribune-Review’s conservative leanings and repeated the obvious fact that the pathologist in question had not himself examined the body.

If Kurtz or the AFIP thought the outbreak had been contained, they were in for a surprise. In a refreshingly noble gesture, two other pathologists who had been on the scene and the forensic photographer who discovered the hole in Brown’s head came forward to support the claim.

Although the mainstream media were still avoiding the subject except to discredit it, the story, like some rogue salmon, made an unusual jump from the conservative media stream to the black-oriented one.

On December 11, the Chicago Independent Bulletin ran a story headlined “Pastor Demands Investigation into Late Ron Brown’s Death.” Two days later, the influential Baltimore Afro-American ran a lengthy front-page story, “Brown Head Injury Suspected Bullet Wound.” On December 18, the AP reported that NAACP honcho, Kweisi Mfume, was now taking the Brown case to the White House and demanding answers.

The mainstream media largely ignored Mfume. But there was one black leader neither the media nor the White House could ignore. That was Jesse Jackson, and he came forward on January 5. In early 1998 Jackson still had the perceived moral force to shake up Washington, and now he was exerting that force to call for an investigation.

With Jackson on board, reporters finally raised the Brown question at a press conference. They obviously struck a nerve. “It’s time to knock this stuff off,” snapped press secretary Mike McCurry. “I’m not going to talk about this further or take any further questions on the subject.”

Brown confidante Nolanda Butler Hills raises a good point on White House stonewalling. “With one phone call President Clinton could have made sure that a comprehensive independent investigation into Ron's death was conducted after the gun-shot issue was raised,” she observes. “For all anyone in the world knew at that point it could have been a FOREIGN government plot to kill Clinton Administration officials, and who would be next?

To a person, establishment reporters refused to challenge the White House. Think about this. Three military pathologists and a forensic photographers had risked their careers to expose a likely bullet hole in Brown’s head, the destruction of the head X-Rays, the apparent “lead snowstorm” in a photograph of those X-Rays, and a hasty burial without benefit of autopsy or forensic testing. And yet, none of this interested these reporters enough to even request the Air Force’s report on the “inexplicable” crash of a plane carrying an embattled Commerce Secretary in a war torn region.

Even without their help, the story had enough power and bi-racial potential to shake Washington to its foundation. With momentum still building in the black community, the Washington Afro-American ran a lengthy front-page story on January 17 with new revelations from the forensic photographer.

Then, the unexpected happened. On that same day and in that same city, Bill Cinton denied under oath any relationship with the then unknown Monica Lewinsky. If Newsweek was willing to suppress what it knew about Lewinsky, Matt Drudge was not. Within days, the Monica tale had inundated the land and left every other news story gasping for breath.

Jesse Jackson had a choice to make. He could either pick away at the administration on a story that had just lost its legs, or he could come to the besieged president’s aid.

Nothing if not clever, Jesse Jackson chose to embrace the president once more, and the Ron Brown story died as suddenly as Brown had.

The night before I was to meet with Colby King in 2004, I got an email. He had cancelled the meeting, no explanation offered, no future date suggested. No other major media person would talk to me either, not even The New York Times, which lost a reporter in the Brown crash.

To their credit, several prominent black broadcasters hung tough—Joe Madison and Dick Gregory most notably. With their support, the book remained at the number two spot on the black bestseller list for months. Several of the black broadcasters who put me on the air told me that they had been under enormous pressure not to. That pressure was coming from Democratic sources, this being an election year and I, a supposed plant from the Republican National Committee. As if.

2005, however, was not an election year. When I learned that Ron Brown’s son, Michael, was now running for mayor of Washington, D.C., I called the Washington media once again, and not just Colby King but other reporters at The Post and elsewhere. As I told them, I had hard, tangible evidence that Ron Brown, shortly before his fatal trip, had made a desperate plea to Bill Clinton to keep Michael from going to prison.

“Forget about any connection between that plea and Brown’s subsequent trip to Croatia,” I told them, “ought not Michael’s troubled past be subject to scrutiny, now that he’s a candidate.”

The evidence was undeniable. After his father’s death, the Clinton Justice Department had let Michael cop a misdemeanor plea on campaign finance violations. But in fact, prosecutors had had more than enough evidence to nail Michael on any number of felony charges.

The establishment media were not interested. Amazingly, in its coverage of Michael Brown’s mayoral announcement, the Washington Post chose not even to mention his election fraud conviction.

When Rob Redding, a black reporter with the Washington Times, tried to get Michael to talk about my book, he blew him off, saying I was “not credible.” By the standards of The Washington Post, Michael would seem to be right.

[lucy]

It's interesting to note times when I've seen some of these celebrities on the red carpet while channel surfing, etc and wonder, what in the name of Pete happened to these people?

Then you dig and find out they were members of the CIA or military or their parents were involved.

[beatlies]

The "Namebase" site that tracks people involved in covert operations/fascist and nazi
networks has a social proximity chart for Sheryl Crow:


www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?Na=Crow%2C+sheryl

[lindsayjudy]

I wondered why she dropped out of sight for a while. The excuse given was that she was battling drug addiction.

[lindsayjudy]

"I also find it interesting that the comedian Sinbad also suppossedly missed that ill-fated flight, but was later rumored to have died as well."

I was wondering what had happened to Sinbad, why we weren't seeing him around as much anymore. I thought "Is it me or does it seem like Sinbad has dropped off the planet? He used to be so popular and in demand. What happened? Did he tell one more bad joke than he should have?" I guess that's a possibiity.

[artemis]

This is how ppl are deceived. I dont know for sure but smth tells me hes dead.

www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sinbad.asp

"Updated 11:01 PM ET March 15, 2007
By KELLI KENNEDY
MIAMI (AP) - Actor-comedian Sinbad had the last laugh after his Wikipedia entry announced he was dead, the performer said Thursday. Rumors began circulating Saturday regarding the posting, said Sinbad, who first got a telephone call from his daughter. The gossip quieted, but a few days later the 50-year-old entertainer said the phone calls, text messages and e-mails started pouring in by the hundreds.
"Saturday I rose from the dead and then died again," the Los Angeles-based entertainer told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
The St. Petersburg-based company, which describes itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," leaves it to a vast user community to catch factual errors and other problems. Apparently, someone edited it to say Sinbad died of a heart attack. By the time the error was caught, e-mail links of the erroneous page had been forwarded to hundreds of people.
A note on Sinbad's Wikipedia page Thursday night said the site has been temporarily protected from editing to deal with vandalism. "


Apparently this is a direct quote from Sinbad:

"Sinbad joked the situation off, commenting that, "I wish that people would've called me back like this when I was alive. I gotta die more often. I'm writing a movie about this now... Seriously, my death is gonna be my comeback."

[qbert]

Jan 5, 2009 8:53:00 GMT -5 lostworld said:

Now, what's really striking here - just as when you compare Paul and Faul - is the big change in personality:
Shery was cool and fun, Feryl is not...

Why? Because Sheryl once sang "all I wanna do is have some fun"?

Now, what's really striking here is how the fake looks amazingly just like the original, sounds exactly like the original and has the same personality as the original as anybody who's attended one of her concerts can tell you.

Gee it's amazing that these fakes perform on stage in front of intimate audiences and at smaller venues where their looks and voices can really be scrutinized up close, you know since they're so fake and all. That's really amazing that they'd be willing to put themselves out there like that. You know, since they're just big fake imposters.

[artemis]

I dont know why u keep posting here, troll, noone pays u any attention at all.

[slimyslug]

Watch closely. She 'said' too much, perhaps.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjmz_SlGhg

[artemis]

U bet she did. Obvious clue to her replacement.

[michelle]

I am not familiar with Sheryl Crow. Watched video above. Why is 'she' so masculine?
And is it really 'she'?