What I found strange was the comment from the MoD, which read "The incident is being investigated but is not thought to have been the result of hostile action."
She was found shot dead in her hotel room. I'd call that a somewhat hostile action. Perhaps they meant to say "enemy hostilities". Apparently suicide has not yet been ruled out. The choice of words is premature at least.
It does seem unusual that an SIB, trained in investigating serious military misconduct, was posted last week to Iraq for lesser duties not normally attached to somebody of her specialization. It is then somewhat suspicious that she be found shot dead within a week. Perhaps they ought to send another SIB.
The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
The first paragraph in that article is very interesting.
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THE first British female soldier to die in Iraq since the campaign to remove Saddam Hussein began last year was named last night by the Ministry of Defence.
The part in bold is something you would NEVER see in an American article. This European writer is qualifying the war as the attempt to remove Saddam from power, while any American-written article would have referred to Iraq as "the war on terror".
The different approaches are certainly interesting, and hints at the chasm separating the philosophies regarding this war.
((As a brief aside, my first snarky response to this article was so vile, I can't believe it popped into my head. But it did make me laugh. Out of respect for this poor woman, it will have to remain a mystery. I guess it's just an attempt to find the light within the darkness, and there is certainly a lot of darkness to contend with lately.))
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