Tillman Killed by Misdirected Fire; Series of Mishaps Lead to Cardinal Star's Death

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The last minutes of Pat Tillman's life were a horror of misdirected machine-gun fire and signals to firing colleagues that were misunderstood as hostile acts, according to an account published Sunday of the death of the NFL player-turned- soldier.

It took the Army a month to change the record to show that Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals defensive back who gave up a $3.6 million contract to become an Army Ranger, was killed last April not by Afghan guerrillas but by his Ranger colleagues.

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Tillman Killed by Misdirected Fire; Series of Mishaps Lead to Cardinal Star's Death

Even then, the statement by Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger Jr., head of the Army's Special Operations Command, gave ...

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