Was the pin-up boy of Bushs War on Terror assassinated?
CHARLES LAURENCE He was the pin-up boy of Bush’s War on Terror. But the story of Pat Tillman’s heroic death soon started to unravel. Today comes the most astonishing claim of all – that he was assassinated by his own side Pat Tillman died a hero’s death. At least, that’s what America was told when this former football star and steel-jawed poster boy for the War on Terror, returned home in a box. Here was a soldier who had paid the ultimate price for defending his fellow Army Rangers from an enemy ambush in the badlands of Afghanistan. President Bush awarded him a posthumous Silver Star and made speeches in his honour. Such was the mood of public mourning that his funeral service was broadcast on national television. In death, he was promoted to Corporal. More than ever, the huge, slab-sided face below the crisply trimmed beret became the face of American patriotism. But that was never the true story. One month after the fateful day in April 2004, when the 27-year-old died in a ravine o
