American soldier dies in Iraq of 'non-hostile gunshot wound'

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030917/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_toll&cid=1514&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A US soldier from the 101st Airborne Division, based in the northern region of Mosul, has died of gunshot wounds.

"On September 15 a soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died of non-hostile gunshot wounds," said spokeswoman Nicole Thompson.

She could not say where the incident took place nor give any further information on the circumstances of the soldier's death.

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[teryang]

1. Wounds? Non-hostile gunshot wounds?

That's their story and their sticking to it.

The Iraqi police died of non hostile gunshot wounds as well.

[saigon68]

2. MORE HORSESHIT

Kept in the dark ----fed only horseshit

They think we are as stupid as mushrooms.

what scum the idiot Nicole is

"She could not say where the incident took place nor give any further information on the circumstances of the soldier's death"

[sybylla]

12. If it were a suicide

would it not be a noble thing to keep it from the media?

Don't get me wrong. I don't think this misadministration does anything noble. But it could easily be a suicide. I think giving the family time to be notified and come to terms with it before the press gets a hold of it might be just a wee bit considerate.

[saigon68]

18. I agree in principle

The problem with this gang of thugs is that this is the only announcement of the death you will ever see.

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. He tripped and fell on a bullet?

The bullet was attached to Cupid's Love Arrow?
He was shot by Leo Buscaglia?

[R Hickey]

4. Another suicide...

Bush wrecked alot of lives to pursue his PNAC agenda. I bet few people in the national guard ever imagined that an unelected American leader would start war after war.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I never imagined that an unelected American leader...

...would start war after war after war either to be honest.

Don

[HawkerHurricane]

7. Suicide or

'fragging' or 'accidental discharge' (gun went off, I didn't mean for it to).

Since there is no announced investigation and they didn't say it was an accident, I'd bet that it was a suicide.

Another needless death. My heart goes out to the man's family.

[Don_G]

11. I Don't Trust The Army Investegators

Army investegators discovered a GI at Ft Knox a couple of years back with 23 stab wounds; they ruled it a "suicide."

[HawkerHurricane]

13. Sounds like Navy Investigators

Remember USS Iowa? They found the dead suicidal homosexual enlisted man responsible in less than 24 hours.
They never did find the bomb he supposedly used. Nor any real evidence that he was homosexual, or suicidal. And they seemed to gloss over the parts about how the Commanding Officer and Weapons Officer were using unauthorized powder loads, or how the crew was not properly trained in the equipment...

[Bluerthanblue]

14. at first glance, i'd agree, BUT-

as much as i'm aquainted with suicide (too much sorry to say)...it strikes me as odd that the article speaks of MULTIPLE shots- not, one -
Most people only get the chance to shoot once- that shot disables them from finishing off a 'bad' aim...

Also, lost in the article is the number of "non-combat" deaths... 117 people- are they any less dead than the 'combat' ones? Who is the military fooling, other than fools ?

Too sad, way too sad.

[chiburb]

16. There IS an investigation...

September 17, 2003
Release Number: 03-09-09C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


SOLDIER DIES IN NON-HOSTILE INCIDENT

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A soldier located in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) area of operations died Sept. 15 from a non-hostile gunshot incident.

The soldier's name is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification.

The incident is under investigation.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20030909.txt

[Bluerthanblue]

17. thanx, i notice the military says shoT

not shots-
Suicide seems pretty believeable- almost inevitable- no pun intended but they are dying to come home.

[prolesunited]

8. Any idea about how many suicides

there have been? I know this isn't the first one. Can you imagine feeling so trapped, depressed and scared that taking your own life would be the preferable option?

BTW, I'm deducing suicide based on their lack of details. If it was a fellow soldier, I'm thinking someone would have been charged.

[lightbulb]

21. Soldier's commentaries have disappeared...

...from the news ever since that flurry of dissent among the ranks leaked out a while back and was subsequently crushed by lord Rummy. Who really knows just how far moral has sunk? I'll bet most of them are experiencing a form of traumatic stress disorder, what with being forced to exist in such a hellish situation and not being allowed to tell anyone in the outside world about it.

[davhill]

6. What I believe is happening here

We have a bunch of frustrated young men soldiers and some young woman soldiers. Frustrated young men tend to get into fights over young women. They all have loaded weapons handy. "I saw the way you looked at my woman! Bamb!"

[catmandu57]

9. That's 295 that we know of

Since this whole mess began. I'm going to quit differentiating between march and may, hostile/nonhostile. Dead is dead and if fucknutz* had listened to the "focus groups" there would be 295 americans still alive and countless others wouldn't be wounded and separated from their families, if this chimpanzee hadn't pulled the pin on the hand grenade that pnac gave it.

I'd like to build a flip chart sign and put it in my yard and everytime another American died for this moron's* oil lust I'd turn a number over. I'd like to get pictures of dead american soldiers in iraq and paste them onto gas pumps, just so people know the real price of the fuel they're pumping.

[underpants]

15. Bartcop has it at 315 (with this sad event)

www.bartcop.com

[dArKeR]

10. It takes Larry Flynt to sue for this information? Are the Whores in

Hustler Magazine or in the American Media?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

19. Other possibilities:

Was shot by a homeowner during one of the celebrated home raids looking for contraband or Saddam sympathizers.

"Friendly fire" by a member of the Iraqi police force.

But, I'll bet it was a fragging. Just saw Platoon again and was reminded of the horrors of war. Both Physical AND psychological. These kids went in there expecting a quick in and out like GWI.

[soothsayer]

20. Remember at the police funeral, the iraqi's firing rifles in the air?

I was wondering how many people would be hit by those falling bullets. Mebbe one of our guys?

[tabasco]

22. Not necessarily a suicide

There are a LOT of accidental shootings with troops running around locked and loaded all the time. In Somalia, the closest I got to getting killed was by a medic cleaning his .45 cal pistol. The round hit about 1 foot from my abdomen.

[saigon68]

23. Highly trained.

what a joke

[No Passaran]

24. suicide or not...

...I'm really sad for his family. When I was in Iraq, a soldier I knew died under similar circumstances. At first it was announced that he commited suicide but later they said he was cleaning his weapon and not knowing that there was a round in a chamber, put a weapon to his head and fired. I don't know how belieavable this is, but the guy had a wife and two kids waiting for him back home.

[tom_paine]

25. My God -- Stalin would approve

Up is down
Black is white
War is peace
Slavery is freedom
Ignorance is strength

--Imperial Amerikan Motto

[Robin Hood]

26. Wouldn't suicide be caused by the war its self?

The stress, the thigs that they're forced to do, to witness. The constant on edge. When is it my turn to have my ass fly past me in a humvee.

[SoCalDem]

27. Yep.. ANY soldier who dies in Iraq should be war casualty..

Iraq is a war zone, and dead is dead.. They would not BE there if not for the war..