And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990917/2869917.html The family of a slain Canadian native-rights figure yesterday named a Canadian man they claim executed her 23 years ago in what they believe was part of a conspiracy involving the FBI and the American Indian Movement. The body of 30-year-old Anna Mae Aquash, who had been shot in the back of the head, was found Feb. 24, 1976 near the South Dakota Indian reservation of Pine Ridge. No one has been charged in the Nova Scotia woman's unsolved abduction and killing, which stems from the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents and a native man. Saying they now know that a Canadian man currently living near Whitehorse in the Yukon killed her, and that they know why, Ms. Aquash's family and supporters gathered yesterday in Ottawa to make an emotional appeal to the Canadian government and the public for support in pushing for charges. "We need the truth to heal and 23 years has been too long," said Ms. Aquash's daughter, Deborah Pictou-Maloney, 34, of Halifax. The family said FBI informants and other forces within the FBI and AIM were behind Ms. Aquash's killing. In 1975, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ray Williams went to a farm near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, to investigate a theft report but an altercation broke out that ended in the deaths of the agents and a native man, Joe Stuntz, 24. AIM security chief Leonard Peltier, who fled to Canada and was later extradited in what is now a controversial case, was charged in the agents' deaths. At the time, the FBI believed Ms. Aquash knew who did the killings. The family believes she was killed because of fears she could expose FBI informants within AIM who also participated in the conviction of Mr. Peltier. Ms. Aquash, who was a member of AIM, was not an informant in the deaths of the FBI agents but had information and "she knew who the informants were," said her cousin Robert Pictou-Branscombe, a 52-year-old Vietnam veteran from Rimrock, Arizona. He alleged Ms. Aquash was made by the FBI to look as if she betrayed AIM as an informant, which resulted in her abduction from the Denver home of AIM members, where she had been staying after the killings. Three people abducted her to South Dakota, where she was questioned about being an FBI informant prior to her death, Mr. Pictou-Branscombe said. He named a man who he said now lives in the Whitehorse area as "the trigger man," and another man living in Denver and a woman living in Nebraska as other accomplices in the case. For legal reasons, the suspects named by Mr. Pictou-Branscombe are not named in this article. The Canadian named as a suspect could not be reached for comment. The RCMP has been aware of the case and is helping in the investigation, said force spokesman Sgt. Marc Richer. "The RCMP received information in February 1998 pertaining to the case and passed it to Denver police, the lead agency. The RCMP is assisting, as needed," Sgt. Richer said, declining to elaborate. To suggest that forces within AIM were behind Mr. Aquash's slaying, is wrong, said Vernon Bellecourt, national representative for AIM. "We believe very strongly that the FBI, and other government agencies on the periphery, were using extremist informants to set up what has been characterized as the execution death of Anna Mae Aquash," Mr. Bellecourt said from St. Paul, Minnesota "It has been said, we don't know who shot Ann Mae Aquash, but that the FBI was behind it." Mr. Bellecourt said Ms. Aquash was an innocent caught in a complex web. The FBI dismisses the accusation that it was involved in Ms. Aquash's death, FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said from the bureau's Minneapolis office, which oversees cases in South Dakota. "The FBI, along with local authorities and the U.S. Attorney's Office, is continuing its investigation (of Aquash's death) and does not comment on who is, or who is not, an FBI informant," Special Agent McCabe said. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
