The other costs of Bush's war

It took a persistent reporter and a slew of Freedom-of-Information requests to pry the story loose, but it turns out that a Alyssa Peterson, a US Arabic-language interrogator who died in Iraq in September of 2003, didn't just die of a routine and vaguely-described "non-hostile weapon discharge." She committed suicide after objecting to the "interrogation" techniques being used in her presence. From Flagstaff radio station KNAU, as reported by Editor & Publisher:

“Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. Army spokespersons for her unit have refused to describe the interrogation techniques Alyssa objected to. They say all records of those techniques have now been destroyed."

Unfortunately for her, Peterson, described as a devout Mormon, apparently had personal principles of right and wrong. Unlike those who gave her the orders that drove her to suicide.