Lost Cause
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Here, take this to prevent malaria, oh yeah, there are some slight side effects...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to send a team of experts to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to investigate whether the recent killings of four women there, allegedly by their Army husbands, are connected, defense officials said on Thursday.
Pentagon and Army officials said the probe by medical and other specialists would include whether the killings might be related to a widely used anti-malaria drug which can prompt rare side effects such as rage and suicidal tendencies.
Four Fort Bragg soldiers, including three special operations servicemen who returned home after tours of duty in Afghanistan, allegedly killed their wives this summer.
In two of the cases, the soldiers killed themselves after shooting their spouses, officials said. In the other two, the servicemen were arrested and are facing charges.
Roche Laboratories produces mefloquine under the brand name Lariam and the medication is used by the Army.
"We don't even know for sure if all four of the men involved here took the drug," one Army official told Reuters. "And thousands and thousands of other troops have taken it without any problem."
Officials at the Army's Special Operations Command in Fort Bragg say that domestic killings are very unusual, even among servicemen returning from a war zone. But the command has continued to look into possible common circumstances in the crimes.
In the first incident, the bodies of Sgt. First Class Rigoberto Nieves, 32, who had just returned from Afghanistan, and his wife, Teresa, were found on June 11 in their home outside the base. Both died of gunshot wounds.
In the second, Master Sgt. William Wright, 36, led authorities to the body of his wife, Jennifer, who had been strangled and buried in a shallow grave in a wooded area on the base. Wright, who served in Afghanistan for two months and returned in mid-May, had reported his wife missing on July 1. He was charged by the local sheriff's department with first-degree murder.
On July 19, authorities found the bodies of Sgt. First Class Brandon Floyd, 30, who returned from Afghanistan in January, and his wife, Andrea, at their home off base. Both had been shot to death.
In the fourth incident, Sgt. Cedric Griffin, 28, a Fort Bragg soldier who had not been deployed to Afghanistan, was charged with stabbing his estranged wife, Marilyn, at least 50 times and setting her home on fire on July 9.
**Do you think this could be the answer to those murders? Or will there be a coverup to prevent panic by the other innoculated soldiers?
(They also said Agent Orange wasn't rotting my brother soldiers, and that the Gulf War Syndrome doesn't exist.)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to send a team of experts to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to investigate whether the recent killings of four women there, allegedly by their Army husbands, are connected, defense officials said on Thursday.
Pentagon and Army officials said the probe by medical and other specialists would include whether the killings might be related to a widely used anti-malaria drug which can prompt rare side effects such as rage and suicidal tendencies.
Four Fort Bragg soldiers, including three special operations servicemen who returned home after tours of duty in Afghanistan, allegedly killed their wives this summer.
In two of the cases, the soldiers killed themselves after shooting their spouses, officials said. In the other two, the servicemen were arrested and are facing charges.
Roche Laboratories produces mefloquine under the brand name Lariam and the medication is used by the Army.
"We don't even know for sure if all four of the men involved here took the drug," one Army official told Reuters. "And thousands and thousands of other troops have taken it without any problem."
Officials at the Army's Special Operations Command in Fort Bragg say that domestic killings are very unusual, even among servicemen returning from a war zone. But the command has continued to look into possible common circumstances in the crimes.
In the first incident, the bodies of Sgt. First Class Rigoberto Nieves, 32, who had just returned from Afghanistan, and his wife, Teresa, were found on June 11 in their home outside the base. Both died of gunshot wounds.
In the second, Master Sgt. William Wright, 36, led authorities to the body of his wife, Jennifer, who had been strangled and buried in a shallow grave in a wooded area on the base. Wright, who served in Afghanistan for two months and returned in mid-May, had reported his wife missing on July 1. He was charged by the local sheriff's department with first-degree murder.
On July 19, authorities found the bodies of Sgt. First Class Brandon Floyd, 30, who returned from Afghanistan in January, and his wife, Andrea, at their home off base. Both had been shot to death.
In the fourth incident, Sgt. Cedric Griffin, 28, a Fort Bragg soldier who had not been deployed to Afghanistan, was charged with stabbing his estranged wife, Marilyn, at least 50 times and setting her home on fire on July 9.
**Do you think this could be the answer to those murders? Or will there be a coverup to prevent panic by the other innoculated soldiers?
(They also said Agent Orange wasn't rotting my brother soldiers, and that the Gulf War Syndrome doesn't exist.)
