http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/12/25/2003341897A former paratrooper who admitted abandoning his post because he disagreed with the US mission in Iraq was freed from a military prison, stopping in Raleigh to greet supporters before he headed home to Washington state.
Ricky Clousing, 24, who was freed on Saturday, had left Fort Bragg without permission in June of last year after returning from a five-month tour in Iraq, where he worked as an interrogator in a military intelligence battalion. snip
Clousing has said he witnessed a US soldier kill an innocent Iraqi man in Mosul, but that unit leaders dismissed his account by saying he was an inexperienced soldier.
"My decision was never personal to my command. I had to honor my own personal convictions," he said.
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