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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)

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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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[-] guriinii@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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

Where's your humanity?

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

I think it's rather disingenuous to say that just because he intended to die, he didn't want the attention. The attention kind of seems like the entire point of the act.