Bushnell Claimed U.S. Troops Are Fighting In Gaza

Aaron Bushnell claimed he had secret knowledge of US troops fighting in Hamas tunnels under Gaza — just hours before setting himself on fire in an “extreme act of protest” against Israel, a close pal told the New York Post, Jack Morphet, Andy Tillet and Kate Sheehy reported.

A vigil was held to honor US Airman Aaron Bushnell's self-sacrifice for peace at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC. I Photo: Elvert Barnes Flickr

The 25-year-old airman — who served in the Air Force’s 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, but also interacted with radical anarchist groups online — ranted he had “top-secret clearance’’ for military intelligence data in the call to his friend Saturday night, he said.

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

Aaron Bushnell was allegedly distraught over discovering US troops on the ground in Gaza killing Palestinians. “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 group Hamas in Gaza. 

Bushnell was said to have been raised in an abusive Christian cult in Cape Cod that engages in mind control.

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