Sixteen
US troops from the 57th Unit of the Airborne Division have committed
suicide inside a military base in Iraq, security sources say.
Iraqi
security sources have revealed that 21 US troops had committed suicide
inside a former Iraqi air force base 27 days ago, Fars News Agency
reported on Monday.
According to the sources, the 21 troops were treated in a hospital
but only five soldiers have survived and they are in a critical
condition. Security officials said they used potent narcotics to kill
themselves.
The troops' motivations for suicide are not known but according to
Iraqi sources the servicemen belonged to the 57th Unit of the US
Airborne Division that was behind the massacre of several Iraqi
families-- mostly women and children-- in northern Baghdad, said Ali
al-Baghdadi an Iraqi security official.
The suicides took place in the soldiers' dormitory after the dinner time.
"The bodies of the US troops became misshapen such a way that they looked like 5000-year mummies," said a witness.
According to Iraqi officials' estimates, some 600 US troops,
including senior officers, have committed suicide in Iraq since the
invasion of the country in 2003. Half of the suicide attempts have been
successful. >>>
I checked out two Iraqi's site but there was no information reagrding Press TV
report from Iraqi sources.This is not a pleasant times for any ones and I am curious why this is not reported in US Media .
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احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
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گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
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Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
I question this report
by American Wife on Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:52 AM PDTafter doing a pretty exhaustive search on yahoo... there is NO mention whatsoever anywhere. What the motive is, I don't know. But at this point it's highly questionable. Please update us if you hear anything else. This would be disasterous if true!
I'll take this opportunity to express AGAIN how urgent it is to get the hell out of Iraq!!!!
A vote for Mcclueless means more of the same.
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