Promised Part II of 'The Soldier Who Refused to Torture--And Killed Herself a Few Days Later'

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By Greg Mitchell at Editor and Publisher: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003966494


April 25, 2009 11:00 AM ET

NEW YORK On Thursday, I posted a column here that drew wide attention around the Web perhaps because of its tragic relevance to the current torture debate in the media: The story of Spc. Alyssa Peterson, who committed suicide in September 2003 a few days after refusing to take part in interrogations that likely involved torture.

The piece (http://tinyurl.com/d48orn),drew thousands of comments at various sites, including one from Peterson's older brother supporting the essence of my piece (I first wrote about Alyssa almost three years ago).

I had promised a Part II, relating to a soldier who served with Peterson, Kayla Williams.

They served in the same battalion in Iraq at the same time. Kayla Williams spoke with Alyssa Peterson about the young woman's troubles a week before she died -- and afterward, attended her memorial service. Williams even has her own Iraq interrogation horror story to tell. So what, in Williams' view, caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?


read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003966494

Part one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5518257

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1. did she kill herself or was she murdered?

:shrug: :cry:

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2. yes

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3. She was suicided,

if you get my drift. :eyes:

[merh]

7. She probably was

torture is not the worst of the bushco crimes.

[barbtries]

4. i read the other article and i read this article

and i am not convinced that this girl was not murdered.

[merh]

6. I am not convinced that she took her own life

and murder would not surprise me at all.

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8. .

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Kick (too late to rec) n/t