This is a very tragic story.My relationship to the Bennett’s is my daughter shared a apartment with the Bennett’s daughter their jr.& sr. years at college.Also after graduation they worked at the same firm for a short time.I pray for Cynthia’s recovery and comfort for the children for the loss of their father.
Hope and pray that the evil cowards responsible for this are hunted down and strung up.
On March 22, William and Cynthia Bennett left their Potomac Station home for an early morning walk and never returned. Shortly after 5:30 a.m., police found William, 57 lying dead, they found Cynthia, 55 badly beaten but still alive a short distance away.
Around 5:30 a.m., less than a mile from the Bennett home, a resident on Rocky Creek Drive called police to report the presence of a suspicious vehicle ( a white panel work van), and three men outside the van causing a disturbance.
By the time a Loudoun County Sheriff’s deputy arrived, the van was gone. However, the body of William Bennett was spotted by the deputy, lying near the intersection of Rocky Creek Drive and Riverside Drive (the same reported location of the white van). More deputies arrived and found the bloodied body of Cynthia Bennett.
Both had obviously been beaten with a blunt object.
Cynthia was sent by helicopter to an area hospital, where she remains in critical condition. The severity of her injuries have prevented her from speaking with police about the attack.
Loudoun County Sheriff Steve Simpson said: “We have a situation here which appears to be random.” Simpson went on to say that the attack may have been carried-out by gang members.
William Bennett was a retired U.S. Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel. Cynthia had also served as an Army officer. The couple have two children together.
It’s a shame that he wasn’t (my assumption) armed at the time. It might have made all the difference in the world.
I may be paranoid, but I’m a well-armed paranoid. That’s why I went through all the hoops to get a Michigan CCW. In Michigan, you’re also allowed to carry one in the open and highly visible. I saw a guy in a Walmart one time. He looked like Wilford Brimley. On his waist was a very shiny, very chrome-plated .44 Magnum. I’m sure not too many of the criminal element out there contemplate strong-arming him or his wife.
My motto is “better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.” It’s worked well for me, so far.
There’s a difference between paranoid and prepared. I have fire extinguishers in my house and a spare tire in my car. I don’t expect to ever need either, but they’re there if I do.
I’m guessing that these poor people never expected to be attacked on their morning walk either. It’s worth noting for those that think that the answer to violent crime is to simply take away all the guns, that no guns were used in this attack, and yet LtCol Bennett, a highly trained, experienced, special forces officer, is just as dead…
God that sucks…you go for a morning walk and that happens to you…Curious why they think it’s “Gang Related” I read nothing in the article about gangs…
MS-13 is alive and operating in N.Virginia
http://www.examiner.com/...of-a-gang-initiation
Truly a shame. On your comment: any idea what group he was with, and what their area of responsibility might have been? Seems a very likely tie-in.
The lack of a physical description of a suspect is becoming more common place I have noticed. They do it all the time here in Phoenix. They’ll give his color and brand of clothing and shoes the suspect is wearing but no indication of hair, skin or eye color. Let’s all look for a male 18-40 5’7 to 6’2 wearing a white t-shirt, levi’s and black nike shoes. That will really narrow it down.
The lack of a physical description of a suspect is becoming more common place I have noticed. They do it all the time here in Phoenix. They’ll give his color and brand of clothing and shoes the suspect is wearing but no indication of hair, skin or eye color. Let’s all look for a male 18-40 5’7 to 6’2 wearing a white t-shirt, levi’s and black nike shoes. That will really narrow it down.
Well, anything else could be considered profiling, and we really can’t have that now, can we?
Saturday, April 11, 2009 Bennett had caught the Israelis red-handed in stealing and selling Patriot technology
Bennett had caught the Israelis red-handed in stealing and selling Patriot technology
Bennett murder linked to his knowledge of S-300 system secrets…
Retired U.S. Army Colonel William Bennett, who was bludgeoned to death by as many as five assailants while walking with his wife in Landsdowne, Virginia, on the early morning of March 22 had intimate knowledge that components of Russia’s S-300 missile defense system was based on U.S. Patriot missile technology had been illegally sold by the Israelis to both the Russians and Chinese, according to U.S. intelligence sources.
We have learned that contrary to previous reports that Bennett left the CIA in 2000, the technical specialist on foreign weapons systems was put in charge of the CIA’s technical evaluation of the Russian S-300 missile system that was sold by Russia to Cyprus as the result of a deal between Russia’s Rosvooruzheniye arm company and the Cypriot Defense Ministry on January 4, 1997.
On April 6, 2009, we reported: “A U.S. intelligence source who examined the Russian radar system while being tested in Algeria discovered the original software documents used by the anti-stealth system were written in Hebrew and were provided by the Israelis to the Russians. The Russians were using their partially Israeli-developed anti-stealth radar system to track the high altitude stealth Aurora testing that was going on in the skies above North Africa at the time. The Israelis developed a highly-advanced and portable version of the radar that they sold to both the Russians and the Chinese. In addition, this system is part of the advance early warning radar system used by the Russian S-300 missile system, which Russia has agreed to provide to Iran. The system, according to U.S. intelligence sources, uses software copied from the Patriot missile system sold by the United States to Israel.”
After pressure was exerted by the United States and Turkey to the S-300 PMU1 system being placed in Cyprus, it was agreed by Cyprus and Greece that the S-300 system would be deployed on the Greek island of Crete instead. However, the Greek government transferred the S-300 system to the CIA in exchange for four Patriot missile batteries. To placate Turkey for the Patriots given to Greece, the United States provided the Turks with newer F-16 fighter planes. To placate Cyprus, the French agreed to sell the Cypriots Milan-3 anti-tank missiles. The Israelis were rewarded with two additional Patriot missile batteries even though their illegal technology transfers ended up being used in the Russian S-300 system. All of these arms deals were implemented during the Bill Clinton administration.
We have also learned that there is still a great deal of interest in the Florida white van seen in the Leesburg/Landsdowne area the night before and the morning of the attack on Bennett and his wife, which left Mrs. Bennett in critical condition. FBI counter-intelligence agents believe the van seen in the area was a Ryder rental van. The van, known as a “cargo van,” does not have rear windows for security purposes and was favored by the Israeli “art students” who cased the offices and homes of federal employees in the months prior to 9/11. There is particular interest in a heavy set man seen with the white van in the area where the Bennetts were found by police. The description matches that of a known Mossad hit man, called “Stinky” by FBI counter-intelligence agents. “Stinky’s” height" is 5’ 4", he has black hair that is balding in the front and on the top, and he said to wear a lot of gold jewelry along with a black leather jacket. Stinky is known to always take a souvenir, such as an item of jewelry, after he performs a murder in order to prove the “hit.” The FBI reportedly has an extensive file on “Stinky” and has linked him to pre-9/11 Israeli art student activities, as well as the 1990 assassination of Canadian arms designer and dealer Gerald Bull in his Brussels apartment. Bull was involved in weapons projects involving Iraq, China, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Spain, and Israel. And the date of Bull’s assassination by Mossad should be of interest to FBI and Loudoun County investigators: March 22, the same date that Colonel Bennett was murdered, nineteen years later.
“The van, known as a “cargo van,” does not have rear windows for security purposes and was favored by the Israeli “art students” who cased the offices and homes of federal employees in the months prior to 9/11.”
“And the date of Bull’s assassination by Mossad should be of interest to FBI and Loudoun County investigators: March 22, the same date that Colonel Bennett was murdered, nineteen years later.”
I think someone, somewhere, is missing a roll of tin foil.
“Hey, let’s kill this guy on the anniversary of that other assassination!”
