by Lizzy Dearborn » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:23 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>William H. Lash III, 45, was the classic Ivy-pedigreed D.C. insider. He worked under Reagan and taught at George Mason University Law School in Arlington. From 2001 until last year, Lash worked at the Commerce Department.<br><br>By all accounts, Lash adored his son, William H. Lash IV, who had just finished sixth grade. The two were looking forward to a summer spent on the swings in their backyard or at RFK Stadium cheering on the Washington Nationals.<br><br>Lash and his wife, Sharon K. Zackula, appeared to have a happy, loving marriage. But something broke, Thursday night; shortly before 10 p.m., the two started arguing. Zackula fled from the house and called the police. Though she was unharmed, the confrontation was such that police went to the home armed with a warrant charging Lash with domestic assault.<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>By 9:55</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->, three officers were on the scene, knocking on every door of the house, but there was no answer. <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Soon, they heard a gunshot and then another. Uncertain of who was shooting</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> or the intended target, the cops called for back up. <br><br>Within moments, the house was surrounded, heavily armed cops in all-black had secured the area and hostage negotiators had set up a command post. The neighbors were told to turn off all their lights and hide in the basement. Police were ready for anything.<br><br>Through a bullhorn, police called out to Lash, "Bill, we need to know you're okay," but there was still no answer. For two hours they tried in vain to get a response. Next, a remote-controlled robot equipped with a video camera was sent in to survey the home.<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Shortly before 4 a.m.,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> cops finally went entered the home, where they found Lash and his son both dead from gunshot to the upper-body.<br><br>What went wrong?<br>When Lash was at Commerce, he headed a task force on the reconstruction of Iraq, in which he dealt with businesses seeking contracts.<br><br>Nobody was a bigger winner in the Iraq reconstruction lottery than Halliburton. For years they had reaped massive profits, as have stakeholders Vice President Dick Cheney and pinko propagandist Michael Moore. <br><br>All that changed earlier this week when the Pentagon announced Monday that they were terminating Halliburton's sweetheart no-bid deal. After years of overcharging and providing U.S. troops with tainted water, Halliburton's free pass at the trough of government waste was over.<br><br>Three days later, Lash and his young son were dead.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/07/another_voice_s.php">www.sploid.com/news/2006/...oice_s.php</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"So by 10:05 p. m., the police knew that two shots had been fired in a house containing a possibly violent man with a gun and his young autistic son, a man who they knew had barricaded himself in the house (by the way, apparently a completely out of character move), and they wait almost six hours before entering the house? The ‘incredibly compassionate’ negotiator had to know he was talking to a dead man. The boy could have been bleeding to death during this time. I find the story far too convenient a way to prove that it had to be suicide.<br><br>Someone is making sure that there is no one left alive to disclose the names of the guilty. Look for a few more ‘suicides’ and ‘accidents’ before this is done."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>-xymphora<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/07/suicide-parade.html">xymphora.blogspot.com/200...arade.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=lizzydearborn>Lizzy Dearborn</A> at: 7/16/06 1:00 am<br></i>
