U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation

[Yalmuk]

She was Army specialist Alyssa Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native serving 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.”

He made "hundreds of phone calls" to the military and couldn't get anywhere, so he filed a Freedom of Information Act request. When the documents of the official investigation of her death arrived, they contained bombshell revelations. Here’s what the Flagstaff public radio station, KNAU, where Elston now works, reported yesterday:

“Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. Army spokespersons for her unit have refused to describe the interrogation techniques Alyssa objected to. They say all records of those techniques have now been destroyed. ...".

She was was then assigned to the base gate, where she monitored Iraqi guards, and sent to suicide prevention training. “But on the night of September 15th, 2003, Army investigators concluded she shot and killed herself with her service rifle,” the documents disclose.

A Friday report in The Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff reveals that Spc. Peterson's mother, Bobbi Peterson, reached at her home in northern Arizona, said that neither she nor her husband Richard has received any official documents that contained information outlined in the KNAU report. "Until she and Richard have had an opportunity to read the documents, she said she is unable to comment," the newspaper reported.

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[bisdte]

Big deal. Suicide's a common thing in life.

[GGenocide]

especially when ur back from Iraq.

[MaxPower]

Non hostile weapons discharge? Hell of a way to cover up a suicide.

[TrueBluePatriot]

so when you're adding up the casualties of war, add those killed, injured and those who killed themselves .. the umbers willmore than double if you don't only list those who died .. some joe without a leg hurt just as bad, ya know?

[Anaru]

so when you're adding up the casualties of war, add those killed, injured and those who killed themselves .. the umbers willmore than double if you don't only list those who died .. some joe without a leg hurt just as bad, ya know?

The number of American casualties in Iraq (Wounded and dead) Is 32,000