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good2bhappy

Sounds like a nasty way to go
torture rape and execution
would hardly expect that from your enemies

sabang

^ I don't know about that. The acid burns and being set alight were quite probably to hide evidence, after she was dead. Hardly likely she would have done that herself though.

good2bhappy

precisely!
Why would someone want to hide evidence!

Texpat

A suicide from 2005.

Next.

sabang

An exceptionally creative suicide then- I'll never hear a bad word said against Pattaya again.

Accidental Ajarn

"An exceptionally creative suicide then"

One should be very careful before swallowing anything found on an internet blog hook, line and sinker. If everything jived completely with the information posted here there is NO WAY anyone in the Army could have prevented this from being investigated.

Why would top brass want to cover up?

Do you think a whole butt-load of career soldiers would risk losing their careers and pensions to protect a rapist and killer? Seems unlikely to me, but more probably than the finding of Bigfoot in a block of ice.

When things don't add up, as in what has been posted here, it is better to check your input data again.

I am not that interested to devote my life to uncovering the truth about this matter, but I would want to hear the Army's side of the story and take a look at the evidence before jumping to a conclusion.

But, our anti-americans and left wing radicals already have the conclucion, US and US Army are bad and therefore any thing written that shows America and its Army in a bad light is true. They don't need anything like hearing both sides of a story, nor do they want to exam evidence nor use logical analysis. They KNOW the answers, because they read left wing blogs which tell them all they need to know.

I am skeptical, but would not rule out the possibility of a coverup but would need far more proof than what has been posted here to believe it.

sabang

I am not about to jump to conclusions, but I think a formal investigation is warranted- when you add the racial element to the apparently somewhat stonewalling attitude of the Army, especially so.

It is the above question that interests, and puzzles me most. Military cover-ups are nothing new however, and certainly not a US phenomenon. Without speculating guilt, some theoretical reasons-

Public opinion 'back home'- an increasingly unpopular foreign war certainly would not be made more popular after an incident of this nature. And black americans make an inordinately high number of recruits.
Morale on the ground- maybe it was thought the effect on troop morale within Iraq would be too bad, although this sounds weak to me.
'Esprit de Corps'- Military prefer to handle disciplinary matters themselves, plus there are issues like the shame to the regiment, and the 'protect ones own' ethos- if the charge were to apply to a senior officer, both of these factors would be enhanced powerfully. It would be an example of esprit de Corps gone bad.

There is also the matter of whether any cover-up, if indeed there was one, was necessarily at Top Brass level.

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Accidental Ajarn

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A federal judge in Kentucky has upheld civilian charges against a former 101st Airborne Division soldier accused in the sexual assault of an Iraqi teenager and the slayings of her and her family.

Judge upholds Iraq charges against former soldier - Yahoo! News

it would seem, if the Amry wanted to cover up a case, this one in the link would be it.

good2bhappy

maybe they don't like blue on blue!