AP: 2 Senators Seek Answers on Murdered Troops

[Eugene]

June 23, 2006, 1:09AM
2 Senators Seek Answers on Murdered Troops

By SCOTT LINDLAW Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Two Democratic senators said Thursday they would press the Pentagon
for answers in the case of two California National Guardsmen killed by Iraqi officers
they were training.

They also said they want to know why the Army waited nine months to tell the men's
families after it had determined that Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey, 34, and 2nd Lt. Andre
D. Tyson, 33, were killed in an ambush.

"Was there a cover-up of this incident?" Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., asked.

Boxer and Carl Levin, D-Mich., said they would also ask the Defense Department to
explain why "nothing was done" after McCaffrey told his superiors that Iraqi forces
previously had fired on the American unit.

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Full article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3994973.html

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