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Army staff sergeant charged with murder

BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged with murdering his two commanders last week at a base outside Baghdad, the military said Thursday in what is believed to be the first case of an American soldier in Iraq accused of killing his superiors.

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The "fragging" incident occurred near Tikrit - Saddam Hussein's hometown 80 miles north of Baghdad - at Forward Operating Base Danger in what used to be one of the ousted Iraqi leader's palace on the banks of the Tigris River.

Fragging is a term used to refer to soldiers killing their superiors.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...-sergeant_x.htm

Fragging

War does crazy things to people. This is one of those situation where you wonder if it could have been avoided early by screening of people before sending them off to war. Shooting people for a living has to screw you up, unless your rather sadistic. I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve to pay for the crime of murder, I just wonder why it happened, how it could happen. The people you fight with are supposed to be like your brothers.