‘WE’VE TROOPS IN TUNNELS’: US AIRMAN AARON BUSHNELL CLAIMED TO HAVE CLASSIFIED KNOWLEDGE OF US FORCES FIGHTING IN GAZA

New Yorkers have gathered outside a US military recruiting centre in New York for a vigil and protest in remembrance of US airman Aaron Bushnell.

Wed 27 February 2024:

Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who set himself ablaze outside the Israeli embassy earlier this week, claimed he had secret information about the US army’s role in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. He told his friend, according to a report by the New York Post that US troops were fighting in Hamas tunnels under Gaza.

Bushnell committed self-immolation in an “extreme act of protest” against Israel while chanting ‘Free Palestine’ and saying that he will not be complicit in genocide.

The 25-year-old airman served in the Air Force’s 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing. A day before his death he bragged to his friend that he had “top-secret clearance’’ for military intelligence data.

“He told me on Saturday that we have troops in those tunnels, that it’s US soldiers participating in the killings,’’ claimed the pal, whose ties to Bushnell have been verified by The Post.

“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, referring to Israel’s war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza.

“He told me that we had troops on the ground, you know, that were there and were killing large numbers of Palestinians.

“There’s just too many things I don’t know, but I can tell you that the tone of his voice just had something in it that told me he was scared,’’ the buddy said.

“I’ve never heard that tone come out of him.”

Although Bushnell claimed he was imparting top secret information to his pal, there is no way of verifying whether that is true.

The White House has repeatedly said it will not put US troops on the ground in Gaza, and President Biden has said he hopes to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas this week.

US special operations forces have been deployed in Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, according to the New York Times, to “identify hostages, including American hostages,” after more than 200 were taken by the group during its raid.

Special forces have also been on hand to assist with strategy for Israeli troops in Gaza, who are flushing out Hamas members from the network of tunnels under the territory, but the report noted troops are “not assigned any combatant roles.”

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