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JCC JediWarrior And Connemara Missing In Afghanistan (Update: What a ****show.)

Discussion in 'Community' started by Fire_Ice_Death, Feb 21, 2013.

  1. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    When in doubt blame Philip Wise
     
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  2. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    No. AT_60 was a different guy. He and Conn were an item at one point in time only to break up later. He's also the same guy who once mentioned that he had a well worn copy of Mein Kampf.

    JW was a different guy as far as I know, not so much a contrarian as AT_60, he had his causes which is what I think could have lead him into getting mixed up with his ex-wife and her family in the first place and is also likely to have lead him into thinking that going into Afghanistan wasn't such a bad idea.

    All that aside, I know this is going to haunt my dreams for a while. You read and see in the news about people doing this sort of thing - having it happen to someone you know and have known for years makes it much stranger to deal with than were it someone you didn't know.
     
  3. Alpha-Red

    Alpha-Red Chosen One star 7

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    How long ago were these two people on this forum? I've been around for a while, though I don't think I posted in the JCC until a year or two ago.
     
  4. jp-30

    jp-30 Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  5. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    this got to me a little. i think there's a strange distance to this topic because they were both kind of unpopular jcers. this is tragic.
     
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  6. jp-30

    jp-30 Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  7. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Haha "web sleuths."

     
  8. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  9. yankee8255

    yankee8255 Force Ghost star 6

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    Don't forget his wife, she's apparently also armed to the teeth.
     
  10. solojones

    solojones Chosen One star 10

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    Yikes, one thing they did dig up... this report from a Pakistani news agency is unsettling.

    Classic.
     
  11. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    Ghazni Public Health Director Baz M. Himmat said the body of a woman was brought to the civil hospital by Afghan soldiers. The woman was mysteriously killed and her body founded on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, he said. The 25-years-old victim, wearing Afghan dress, could not be identified.

    uh oh.
     
  12. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    I don't think it's any surprise that two people who have been missing for over four months are most likely dead.
     
  13. Eeth-my-Koth

    Eeth-my-Koth Jedi Grand Master star 9

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    I feel sick reading that story. What did she get herself into.
     
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  14. Arawn_Fenn

    Arawn_Fenn Chosen One star 7

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    "Muhammad, what's it like to set your first roadside IED?"
     
  15. PrincessKenobi

    PrincessKenobi Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I..just yeah what Vin said.


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  16. DarthBreezy

    DarthBreezy Chosen One star 6

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    Oh... god....

    How utterly sad, even if it isn't them, but it seems very likely.

    FWIW, I love this oddball collection of usernames, and have from the start - never would have thought it nearly 11 years ago that this online asylum would become a virtual family - (second cousin to who?)


    [:D]
     
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  17. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Yeah. The jury's still out on JW but Connemara is definitely a victim here.
     
  18. Rogue1-and-a-half

    Rogue1-and-a-half Manager Emeritus who is writing his masterpiece star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    From that thread:

    Mitt said:

    Conn answered my text this morning saying she was on the way to meet JW.

    A few hours later I TMed her again asking her if she was dead yet.

    Awhile later I got this message from her:
    "No I'm not dead yet. JW says you have three hours to get the money together."
    Sadly, I was at work and had actually just checked my messages three hours later after she sent it.
    So I replied saying doh I was at work and I got the message:
    "Too late I'm dead. This message is from beyond the grave."

    I screamed back "Noooooooooooooo!"

    But I have not heard from her again.
     
  19. Souderwan

    Souderwan Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    I feel weird posting in this thread as I know neither of the two users and had only obliquely heard of Connemara. But this is tragic and two human beings are most likely dead. :(

    I have nothing else to say, really. Just wanted to express my sadness at the whole issue.
     
  20. zigazigahh

    zigazigahh Jedi Master star 1

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    Does anyone know who the two e-friends of JW were in the websleuth's thread? Did he dabble in other places, or was he mostly just a JCer?

    Also, I can't imagine that the Pakistani news about the kidnapping is anyone but them.
     
  21. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Yes, pretty unlikely.
     
  22. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    i think most people who post on message boards inevitably branch out to more than one. cross-pollination seems necessary to explain the amount of internet message boards vs the amount of real life people who seem to post on them

    heck, i learned in this thread that at least two of you ******* are/were somethingawful goons
     
  23. Harpua

    Harpua Chosen One star 9

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    This... my gut tells me that woman is Connemara.
     
  24. soitscometothis

    soitscometothis Chosen One star 6

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    If you're talking about the dead body, wouldn't an autopsy have shown if she was pregnant or not? Or do they not do autopsies, either because of lack of resources, or because it would violate their beliefs? I really don't know anything about Afghanistan.
     
  25. Harpua

    Harpua Chosen One star 9

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    This is going to sound horrible... there's no way to avoid it sounding horrible... but the baby was probably removed from her body. I imagine an American infant fetches a good price.