US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: pal ( nypost.com )

Aaron Bushnell claimed he had secret knowledge of US troops fighting in Hamas tunnels under Gaza — just hours before setting himself on fire

"His actual job involves the processing of intelligence data. Some of what he was processing had to do with the Israeli Gaza conflict.

“One of the things he told me is that coming across his desk … was the US military was involved in the genocides going on in Palestine,’’ the friend said,

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KevonLooney ,

This doesn't make sense. Why would a member of the Air Force have deployment info for the Army?

He wanted attention (hence the killing himself). This seems more like a rumor.

jws_shadotak ,

Different branches work together all the time.

guriinii ,

Disgusting comment. The guy self-immolated, expecting to die, to seek attention he would never receive?

Where's your humanity?

Alsephina OP ,

Looks like he also received a mandatory deployment order to "israel" to directly participate in the genocide before he decided to go through with this.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e39181ad-79f9-40a5-b943-b0ea95c904df.jpeg

GammaGames ,
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He did say he wasn’t going to be a part of the genocide, so that checks out

queermunist ,
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Such a shame he killed the only troop willing to die for Palestinians, instead of killing- well

catloaf ,

Those are not military orders. Orders are on a form 1610 or similar. Based on what's visible in that document, that looks like "if you get sent to Israel, here's what you do".

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