it would be foolish to assume uncritically that luke somers was killed by his captors, as every msm outlet is doing. you'd think after getting burned twenty times you'd wise up and just keep formulating this line as the assertion of hagel or whomever it may be rather than the actual story. i don't know what happened, but this is a very usual sort of account making the whole thing compatible with american heroism, and often five years later it finally emerges it was friendly fire and the cascade of mistakes is revealed, just at the moment when almost no one cares any more.