Who Is Franz Gayl, the Pentagon Worker Taking Heat for Op-Eds in Chinese State Media?
On 6/12/21 at 10:46 AM EDT
The Marine Corps confirmed to the
Washington Post Friday that Franz Gayl, a 64-year-old retired major who served in Iraq, is part of an on-going investigation after he wrote two
Global Times opinion pieces.
Gayl was the reported whistleblower behind a May 2007
Wired magazine piece entitled, Military Dragged Feet on Bomb-Proof Vehicles, which sparked controversy and congressional hearings at the time. Then-Delaware Democratic Senator Joe Biden praised Gayl in 2007 for his whistleblower efforts.
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Gayl has since worked as a science adviser to the Marine Corps and recently returned from Iraq after helping the U.S. military with a rollout of armored military vehicles dubbed MRAPs.
ALMOST one week has gone by since a full lockdown was imposed but the number of new Covid-19 cases and deaths are still significantly high.
By next Monday, with the end of two weeks of full movement control order phase, these numbers are unlikely to change by much, say experts.
To date Malaysia has breached the 600,000 mark of Covid-19 cases, since March 18 last year, when the pandemic was declared. There have been more than 3,000 deaths related to this disease reported in hospitals nationwide throughout this period.
A study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in the United States recently revealed the Covid-19 death toll in this country may reach a staggering 26,000 by September, based on the current trajectory, if Malaysia doesn’t bring the number of infections down significantly.
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