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The Fort Carson 2nd/4th
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Background -
March/August 2007 “Eastridge said he told his lieutenant he was going
to kill people as soon as the officer was out of sight. Then he asked the
driver to put some heavy-metal ‘killin’ music on.’ […] Families were out
playing soccer and barbecuing. Eastridge said he just started shooting. […]
People started running. They piled into their cars and sped away. There was a
no-driving rule in effect in the neighborhood, so, Eastridge said, he put his
cross hairs on every car that moved. […] Eastridge said he shot more than
1,700 rounds. When asked how many people he killed, he said, ‘Not that many.
Maybe a dozen.’ He was court-martialed a short time later on nine counts,
including drug possession and disobeying orders. Killing civilians wasn’t one
of them. […]” Excerpt
of a Colorado Springs Gazette article
from July 24th, 2009. |
Kenneth Eastridge - Murderer of Iraqi
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September 30th, 2009 - DA Bringing Personal
Touch to Attempted Murder Trial 1 news
article from Colorado Springs Gazette July 28th, 2009 - Crime Rate of Veterans
in Colo. Unit Cited 1 news article
from the Washington Post July 26th, 2009 - Soldiers in Colorado
Slayings Tell of Iraq Horrors 1 news article
from the Associated Press July 24th, 2009 - Casualties of War,
Part II: Warning Signs 1 feature article
from the Colorado Springs Gazette July 24th, 2009 - Casualties of War,
Part I: The Hell of War Comes Home 1 feature article
from the Colorado Springs Gazette July 15th, 2009 - Army: Soldiers in
Slayings Faced Intense Combat 1 news article
from the Associated Press February 12th, 2009 - "You’re a Pussy And
a Scared Little Kid” 1
feature article from Salon Magazine January 12th, 2008 - 3 Buddies Home From Iraq
Are Charged With Murdering a 4th 1 news
article from the New York Times October 28th, 2007 - Home Couldn’t Harbor
GI 1 news article
from the Denver Post |
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July 2009 - Investigation of
Homicides at Fort Carson, Colorado Report by the U.S.
Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine “[…] Although not conclusive, the findings from this
EPICON suggest a combination of individual, unit, and environmental factors
converged to increase the population risk in the index BCT which made
clustering of negative outcomes more likely. Accumulating BH risk based on
individual predisposing factors such as prior criminal behavior, drug and/or
alcohol abuse, and behavioral health disorders; unit factors such as combat
exposure/intensity, leadership, and barriers to seeking care; and
environmental factors such as OPTEMPO and installation/community level
factors and trends, may increase overall population-level risk for negative
outcomes. “[…] This analysis, however, is based only on data
available for individuals assigned to two BCTs and may not representative of
all Army installations or all Army Soldiers. More comprehensive studies of the
potential impact of deployment, combat exposure, and the relative weights of
various individual, unit, and environmental factors on violent behavior and
criminal outcomes in Army populations are required in order to understand the
impact on the Army overall. […]” December 18th, 2007 - “Dear Mr. Waddle
[...]” Letter
by PFC John Needham, U.S. Army “[…] My name if John Needham. I am a member of Bravo
Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry division, 2nd
Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division […]. I deployed with my
unit to Iraq from October 2006 until October 2007 when I was medically
evacuated for physical and metal injuries that I suffered during my
deployment. The purpose of my letter is to report what I believe to be war
crimes and violation of the laws of armed conflict that I personally
witnesses while deployed in Iraq. […] “[…] In June of 2007 [redacted] caused an Iraqi male
to be stopped, questioned, detained, and killed. We had no evidence that the
Iraqi was an insurgent or terrorist. In any event when we stopped he did not
pose a threat. Although I did not personally witness the killing, I did
observe [redacted] dismembering the body and parading of it while it was tied
to the hood of a Humvee around the Muhalla neighborhood while the interpreter
blared out warnings in Arabic over the loud speaker. I have a photo that
shows [redacted] removing the victim’s brains. “On another occasion an Iraqi male was stopped by a
team led by [redacted] as he walked down an alleyway. The Iraqi was
detainedand questioned then with his hands tied behind his back. [redacted]
skinned his face. “[redacted] shot a young Iraqi teenager who was
about 16 years ago. The shooting was unprovoked and the Iraqi posed no threat
to the unit. He was merely riding his bicycle past an ambush site. When I
arrived on the scene I observed [redacted] along with [redacted] dismmember
the boy’s body. […] “[…] On many occasions I observed [redacted],
[redacted] and [redacted] beat and abuse Iraqi teenagers, some as young as
14, without cause. They would walk into a house near areas where they
suspected we had received sniper fire, then detain and beat the kids. […]” |
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Killing in Iraq, killing in the United States |
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John Needham in Iraq |
Louis Bressler |
Anthony Marquez with George W. Bush |
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Background 1) Kenneth Eastridge - Summer of 2009 - Colorado
Springs Gazette; Killing in Iraq, killing
in the United States 1)
John Needham in his Humvee in Iraq around August 2007, a month prior to his
suicide attempt. - August 2007 - unknown source/Salon magazine; 2)
Mugshot of Louis Bressler - November 2007 - Colorado Springs Police
Department (?)/Sally Ryan/New York Times; 3) President Bush visited Anthony Marquez and his
mother, Teresa Hernandez, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in July 2005.
Anthony Marquez received a Purple Heart after being injured. - July 2005 -
Family photo/Ann Johansson/Denver Post; |
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