US troops commit mass suicide in Iraq
16 US troops commit suicide in Iraq
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:48:50 GMT
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.
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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 US troops, including senior officers, have committed suicide in Iraq since the invasion of the country in 2003. Half of the [1200] suicide attempts have been successful.
I suspect the number is much higher, and if it included troops outside Iraq, be it suicide and/or death, the numbers would be shock'n aweful, like Afghanistnam.
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