Officials: Ex-GI had antisocial disorder

MIDLAND, Texas - A former Army private accused in the horrific rape and killing of a young Iraqi woman and the execution-style slaying of her family had been discharged because of an "antisocial personality disorder," U.S. military officials told The Associated Press.
Investigators say Steven D. Green and other soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division plotted to rape a young Iraqi woman they first saw at a traffic checkpoint in the village of ... Full Story »

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by Michael H. Margolin - Jul. 13, 2006

The major issue I have is with the use of the psychiatric diagnosis; the question should have been raised with the expert cited as to whether such a diagnosis can be the result of stressful duty or whether is is likely that it precedes the alleged crime. And what was his plea? How was the information about the incident obtained? Did Green confess? Were the "other soldiers" written of in the hatching of the plot the basis of the information about the actual event? Too many questions are raised but not answered.

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