Just as the official version of the execution-style shooting of a young Brazilian in the tube (subway) by British security forces was shown to be a pack of lies (wore a heavy coat, ran away, carried bomb), the official version of the execution-style shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar at Miami's airport has started to develop cracks. Passengers interviewed by MSM have clearly stated that the first time they heard the word "bomb" was when they were asked about it by the FBI. What other lies have they told about this sad event?
These people have been lying for 5 years. Why are we still giving them the benefit of the doubt, when we should be taking anything they say with a grain of salt?
Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s “war on terrorism” comes home
By Bill Van Auken
9 December 2005
The most chilling aspect of the brutal state killing of Rigoberto Alpizar, the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant gunned down while fleeing an American Airlines Boeing 757 in Miami Wednesday, is the utter absence of any statement of remorse by government officials.
Rather than publicly acknowledge that a horror and a tragedy had resulted from the use of lethal force against an unarmed and innocent man, spokesmen for the Bush administration and various state agencies praised those who killed him and virtually celebrated the spilling of blood on American soil in the so-called “global war on terrorism.”
The initial facts that have emerged from the shooting are appalling. Alpizar, a US citizen who left his native country 20 years ago, was returning with his wife from South America, where they had participated in missionary work with her uncle, a Michigan dentist who provides free treatment to the poor.
As the two were boarding a connecting flight in Miami bound for Orlando, Florida, Alpizar became extremely agitated, bolted up the aisle and tried to flee the aircraft. It was then that he was confronted by two undercover air marshals.
Passengers said that his wife was running after him shouting, “My husband is sick, my husband is sick.” Others heard her pleading, saying that he was bipolar and had not taken his medicine. She told them that it was her fault for persuading him to get on the plane.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/shot-d09.shtml