And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1104anna8.shtml>
AIM leader says FBI had role in death
Group's head maintains woman kidnapped, killed
By Karen Abbott
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Twenty-four years ago, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was kidnapped
from a Denver home, driven to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
and shot in the back of the head, American Indian Movement
leader Russell Means says.
On Wednesday, Means accused the FBI and two AIM leaders of
conspiring to have her kidnapped, then killed by three other
people.
He called for a congressional investigation of the alleged
collusion. Pictou-Aquash was an American Indian activist who
has become a revered symbol to other American Indians in the
fight for rights.
Rumors have circulated since her death that she might have been
killed by other AIM members who believed she was an FBI
informant, or by the real informants -- perhaps with FBI
knowledge -- for fear she would disclose their identities.
"We are calling on Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo) ... to
bring forth a hearing to investigate the FBI," Means said at a news
conference in Denver.
"One of the three men that took Anna Mae to her death has told me
that it was (the AIM leader)," who ordered her killed, Means said.
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