Army probe finds no proof medic killed detainees in intensive care ward

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D895LCI81.html

An Army investigation found no evidence to substantiate a combat medic's alleged claim to a social worker that he killed several detainees while serving in an intensive care ward in Iraq, a spokesman said Wednesday. The soldier himself later said he had not killed anyone and his initial statements were misinterpreted.

The soldier served in the medical ward for a month in Balad, Iraq, during his 5-month tour in the combat zone in early 2004. Balad is about 45 miles north of Baghdad.

According to a summary of the soldier's case, he told a social worker at Fort Bliss, Texas, after he returned that he "had killed numerous detainees by putting bleach in their IV bags, intentionally cutting their arteries so they would bleed out, punched them, and spit in their food. Further, that the death certificates did not indicate any foul play involving their deaths."

However, when investigators interviewed him, the soldier said he was only describing dreams he had, and that the social worker misunderstood him. He said he was very emotional when he spoke to her but that he distinguished his dreams from reality.

[VegasWolf]

1. Shame that all that proof was accidently shredded last week. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. This medic either did it or most lilely

showing sings of the kind of stress that should barr him from any future deployment... don't count on either

[vpigrad]

3. Army probe? WTF!

That's a conflict of interest. Don't those military people have any sense?