Army studying high suicide rate among US soldiers

[Bushknew]

The US army has sent mental health specialists to Iraq to determine why so many soldiers are committing suicide there, a US media report said.

Eleven US soldiers and three Marines have killed themselves in the past seven months in Iraq, an annualised rate of 17 suicides per 100,000 soldiers.

The usual rate of army suicides is 13 per 100,000 soldiers, the report in the USA Today newspaper said.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/13/1065917350950.html