U.S. Soldier Commits Suicide -- Another Victim Of The Bush Administration's War For Oil And US Imperialism

From the Huffington Post

U.S. Soldier Killed Herself in Iraq -- After Objecting to Torture
By Greg Mitchell
Posted March 17, 2008 01:17 PM (EST)

Looking back at all of the sad, tragic and unnecessary deaths in Iraq that I have written about in the past five years, it is hard to identify one that stands out. But one death does still haunt me, above all others.

Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq -- and she died by her own hand after objecting to interrogation methods used on prisoners. A cover-up, naturally, followed.

Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native, served with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to official records, she died on Sept. 15, 2003, from a "non-hostile weapons discharge."

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