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2006-09-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Major Found in Kyrgyzstan Is 'Stable' - Kyrgyz spinning fable???
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "does not compute"
Posted by Frank G 2006-09-10 00:47||   2006-09-10 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Weirder than a snake's suspenders.
Posted by Zenster 2006-09-10 01:41||   2006-09-10 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 sounds like stories that used come out of Macao during Nam.
Posted by 3dc 2006-09-10 01:56||   2006-09-10 01:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds to me like she snuck off to try some local opium, went on a 3-day bender, and this is the story she came up with to cover for it.
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-09-10 02:39||   2006-09-10 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 The hair dye on her own hands does make her story a wee smidgen suspect, but I'm not there so I'll leave any conclusions to the local military investigators.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-09-10 02:48|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-09-10 02:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Psychotic break?
Posted by ST 2006-09-10 02:52||   2006-09-10 02:52|| Front Page Top

#7 The truth will come out... it always does in silly stories like this.
Posted by Armylife 2006-09-10 05:37||   2006-09-10 05:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeesh. I wonder also.
Normaly, I'd be glad to get her back, but from the description....

Something does not add up.
Posted by N guard 2006-09-10 06:50||   2006-09-10 06:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe she's scamming.

But Kyrgyzstan used to be Soviet and the Soviets used a lot of psychotropic drugs in their police & KGB activities. It was a favored tactic, in fact. And Kyrgyzstan is one of the 'Stans where Putin has been trying hard to undo our recent presence. The new government is more pro-Moscow than the one that allowed us to set up an airbase there.

Reports are that she was beaten. She probably had no sleep for those 3 days, which plays havoc with the mind even if she was not drugged. Almost certainly she was gangraped - something we understandably play down, but it happens (and not just to females either). And the beatings may have risen to systematic torture.

I'm betting the USAF is taking time to sort this out before coming to conclusions.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-10 07:45||   2006-09-10 07:45|| Front Page Top

#10 ...This has without question been handed over to USAF Office Of Special Investigations (USAF equivalent to Army CID or Navy NCIS), and having seen what happens whan they get suspicious, I can guarantee they will get to the bottom of this. I hope and pray that this is indeed one of the weird things that happens in that part of the world - but there are just too many off-notes in the story.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-10 09:13||   2006-09-10 09:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Re-reading the article I can see that the claims about a bomb, "trance" etc. came from the Kyrgyz officials

The US officials are still saying she was abducted, found by the road with her head shaved and had been beaten badly.

Somehow I take the Kyrgyz account with a truckload of salt .... This reads to me like an attempt to discredit a truthful account of an attack on a US officer by Kyrgyz locals -- or officials. You know, "the woman's crazy!!!".

These are the same officials who demanded massive increases in "rent" for the air base there. It's not exactly a politically stable and friendly neighborhood for us and there are pro-Russia/Soviet factions in the country.

Keep that in mind as a background to claims about what happened to this officer.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-10 09:14||   2006-09-10 09:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Military officials said Metzger was a newlywed and had been scheduled to travel with her husband to Jamaica for a belated 10-day honeymoon in the Caribbean

.....planced into a department store trance and then kidnapped by a Mexican....headed to Vegas on a Greyhound? It all began back at Jack's Valley at the Academy with those 3 guys that lonely nite, I never said anything about it until now.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 11:07||   2006-09-10 11:07|| Front Page Top

#13 yeah, yeah, yeah Besoeker. The academies turn out wussies and you're a MAN.

Seems like I've heard that one before.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-10 13:30||   2006-09-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#14 off topic a bit...

Maj. Jill Metzger sure looks familiar.. like someone else, I can't seem to place the face with the context tho...
Posted by RD 2006-09-10 15:42||   2006-09-10 15:42|| Front Page Top

#15 RD - same feeling here. Julie Andrews, maybe?
Posted by PBMcL 2006-09-10 16:24||   2006-09-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#16 B your out of line on this one. Air Force will run this out to the truth. She was beten, her head shaved, probably sexually assualted, and dumped on the roadside. I know you have a distain for the officer corps but lighten up on this a bit.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-09-10 16:59||   2006-09-10 16:59|| Front Page Top

#17 I hope I am wrong, and IF I am I'll retract. But I'm getting a very strong whiff of MOONBAT.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 18:01||   2006-09-10 18:01|| Front Page Top

#18 The hair dye on her own hands does make her story a wee smidgen suspect

Could have been her abductors trying to hide her skin color.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-09-10 19:26|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-09-10 19:26|| Front Page Top

#19 Or the claim of dyed hands could have been made up by the Kyrgyz.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-10 19:39||   2006-09-10 19:39|| Front Page Top

#20 




Posted by RD 2006-09-10 19:56||   2006-09-10 19:56|| Front Page Top

#21 I almost hope you guys are right.

Because if you're wrong -- if the statement by the US military that she was abducted, beaten badly, shaved and dumped by the side of the road is true -- then your snark is a slur on a woman who is serving in OUR name for OUR safety.

Pfeh.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-10 20:09||   2006-09-10 20:09|| Front Page Top

#22 heh lotp I guessing your right about the Major, she probably was abducted, and worse.

I wish it didn't happen at all and hope she recovers her career and private life.
Posted by RD 2006-09-10 20:17||   2006-09-10 20:17|| Front Page Top

#23 I posted the Natalee girl because Jill reminds me of someone but i can't remember exactally who. she looks a little like Natalee...
Posted by RD 2006-09-10 20:21||   2006-09-10 20:21|| Front Page Top

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