Editor and Publisher: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques

U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques:

"Now we learn [via FOIA] that one of the first female soldiers killed in Iraq died by her own hand after objecting to interrogation methods used on prisoners.

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.? "

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?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.