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Nov 6, 2009 12:17 pm US/Central
Soldier-On-Soldier Violence Rare, But Deadly
By Kent Chapline
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U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Arthur L. Coleman Jr., left, walks with Command Sergeant Major Norman Corbett, right, after arriving on a helicopter at Fort Hood on Nov. 6.
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Maj. Nidal Hasan's alleged attack at Ft. Hood Thursday would be at least the seventh instance of deadly soldier-on-soldier violence since the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started.
Hasan is accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 in a shooting rampage at the Central Texas Army post.
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In May, Army Sgt. John M. Russell, a Sherman native,
allegedly shot and killed five fellow soldiers at a military counseling clinic in Baghdad. At the time it was the deadliest instance of soldier-on-soldier violence, known in the military as "fragging," since the Iraq war began in 2003.
In September 2008, Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich was arrested after allegedly killing two members of his unit near Baghdad. His case is still pending.
Also in 2008, Army Cpl. Timothy Ayers was sentenced to prison for the shooting death of his platoon sergeant in Iraq the previous year.
National Guard Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez was acquitted in
the 2005 murders of two Army officers. An anti-personnel mine detonated in their room at a U.S. base in Iraq, killing them.
In 2005, Spc. Chris Rolan, an Army medic,
killed another soldier in Iraq. He was sentenced in 2007 to 33 years in prison.
Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death in April 2005 for murdering two officers in Kuwait just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Akbar is one of just six people on the military's death row. The last U.S. military execution was in 1961.
Combat stress has been blamed in many of these fragging attacks. Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shooting, is said to have been distraught that he was about to deploy overseas.
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