Accidental shooting, pt. 2
Apr. 27th, 2006 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenFurther updates on Jacob Kovco, the Australian soldier who was shot in Iraq:
* Now being reported that he did not die cleaning his gun. In Brendan Nelson's words: "It was near him in his vicinity and he made some kind of movement which suggests that it discharged."
("Near him in his vicinity"? "Suggests"? Did I hallucinate the five years where Nelson was Minister for Education, before he was promoted to Defence?)
* In an impressive feat of incompetence, they flew the wrong body back to Australia. Officially, Kovco's body is in Kuwait, held up by a public holiday, but his mother is of the not-unreasonable suspicion that if they accidentally flew a dead Bosnian to Australia, maybe her son's body ended up in Bosnia. (She also looks to be about as convinced as I was by the 'accidental shooting' story.)
* Now being reported that he did not die cleaning his gun. In Brendan Nelson's words: "It was near him in his vicinity and he made some kind of movement which suggests that it discharged."
("Near him in his vicinity"? "Suggests"? Did I hallucinate the five years where Nelson was Minister for Education, before he was promoted to Defence?)
* In an impressive feat of incompetence, they flew the wrong body back to Australia. Officially, Kovco's body is in Kuwait, held up by a public holiday, but his mother is of the not-unreasonable suspicion that if they accidentally flew a dead Bosnian to Australia, maybe her son's body ended up in Bosnia. (She also looks to be about as convinced as I was by the 'accidental shooting' story.)
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Date: 2006-04-27 12:52 pm (UTC)Sadly, no. I recall those five years myself, with all the great achievements he managed to, well, achieve. I wish I had been hallucinating them.
Besides, there's been a long-standing tradition of giving ministers portfolios they have little or no personal experience with - when was the last time the Minister for Immigration was an immigrant, the Minister for the Environment a hippie, or the Minister for Science a scientist?[1]
[1] OK, I guess we all know the answer to the last one. But that was still some time ago.