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●７月下旬に、米国から気になるニュースが伝えられました。
陸軍特殊部隊「グリーンベレー」の本拠地であるフォートブラッグ基地で、
アフガン帰還兵による妻殺しが相次いで起きている、という異常事態を
報じたニュースでした。その概略は、阿修羅でも次のように紹介されていました。
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WA14 191 2002/7/27 13:34:04
投稿者: FP親衛隊国家保安本部
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題 名: 米フォートブラッグ基地でアフガン帰還兵の妻殺し相次ぐ
［フォートブラッグ（米ノースカロライナ州）２６日ロイター］
米軍関係者によると、アフガニスタンでの任務を経てフォートブラッグ基地に
帰還した米軍兵士４人が、妻を殺害する事件が相次いで発生していたことが
明らかになった。
このうち２人は、妻を銃で殺害した後に自殺した。残りの２人は逮捕され、
起訴される見通し。
特殊作戦軍司令部の報道官、コルブ少佐は「兵士が妻を殺害、または妻を殺害
して自殺、という事件が相次いで発生した」と述べた。
同少佐は、当局が４件の殺人事件に共通の要素がないか捜査していることを
明らかにし、「間違いなくミステリーであり異常だ。４人を結び付ける要素
がない」と述べた。
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WA14 193 2002/7/27 15:24:37
投稿者: えーてる
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題 名: 米帰還兵の妻殺し相次ぐ（読売新聞）
【ニューヨーク２６日＝勝田誠】米陸軍特殊作戦司令部のあるノースカロライナ州
フォートブラッグ基地で過去６週間に、アフガニスタンの軍事作戦からの帰還兵が
妻を殺害する事件が次々に３件も発生していたことが、２６日分かった。
同司令部は、同作戦に多数の兵士を投入しているため、戦争による極度のストレス
状態が事件の背景にあると見て対策に乗り出した。
米ＡＰ通信などによると、３件の容疑者はアフガンから帰還したばかりだった。
同基地では同時期にこのほか、空輸部隊に所属する兵士による妻殺しも発生した。
計４件の殺害方法は、２件が銃殺、２件は絞殺と刺殺であり、殺害後に自宅に火を
放った者もいた。容疑者のうち２人は直後に自殺、残る２人は逮捕された。
同司令部は、アフガンに多数の兵士を送り込んだ米陸軍特殊部隊「グリーンベレー」
の本拠地。司令部は、相次ぐ事件が偶然とは考えにくいため、カウンセリング強化など
予防策に乗り出すという。
戦争に参加した兵士が帰国後の現実に適応できず、肉親や配偶者など周囲の人々に
危害を加える事例は、ベトナム戦争（１９６５年―７３年）後にも報告されている。
（読売新聞）
[7月27日14時38分更新]
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●この事件の続報が米国で報じられました（下記の記事）。
それによると、これらの兵士はアフガニスタン出征時に、軍が開発した
「ラリアム（Lariam）」――別名「メフロキン（mefloquine）」――という
薬物を投与されていたとのこと。
●この薬物は元々、ヴェトナム戦争当時に旧来の抗マラリア剤「クロロキン」が
すでに効力が落ちていたため、ウォルターリード陸軍研究所が新たなマラリア
予防薬を求めておよそ25万種類の化合物の効能検索を実施したすえに見つけ
だしたものでした。米国陸軍は70年代の初めに400人ほどの男性被験者を
用いて人体実験を行ない、この薬物の作用機序が解明されぬまま、とにかく
実際にマラリア予防効果があり副作用も比較的軽微だというデータを得ました。
その後、ホフマン・ラロシュ製薬が商品化の権利を得て、軍の人体実験データ
を添えて連邦食品医薬品局(FDA)に認可申請を求め、同局は89年に認可を出しました。
●90年には英国でも認可が出て、たちまち熱帯に向かう旅行者の間で知られる
クスリになったのですが、早くも89年には服用者に神経学的・精神医学的な
異常が生じるという副作用報告が次々と出始めました。その副作用とは、
具体的には「攻撃性、妄想症、精神病、幻覚、自殺願望」などが現われると
いうものです。しかも服用をやめた後もこうした深刻な副作用が何年も続く
場合も報告されています。
●この事件で連想するのはCIA（中央諜報庁←独立行政法人なので「庁」と呼ぶべき）
が戦後長年にわたって続けてきたマインドコントロール研究です。それは
心理学的テクニックや薬物などあらゆる方法をもちいて人間を“殺人ロボット”
に変えてしまう技術を確立するのが目的でした。
●すでに十年以上前から、粗暴性を駆り立てて攻撃的な人格に変えてしまう副作用
があることを知っていたはずの米軍が、この薬物を「抗マラリア剤」の名目で
戦場の兵士に投与していたのは、タテマエとしての「マラリア予防」よりも、
むしろ攻撃性昂進という副作用を活用するのが狙いだったのかも知れません。
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【記事】
Third Bragg soldier took malaria drug
By Mark Benjamin and Dan Olmsted
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20020816-031451-2147r.htm
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Friends of the three Fort Bragg soldiers suspected of killing their wives this summer say the men exhibited unusual anger and incoherence after returning from Afghanistan where they were given an anti-malaria drug associated with aggression and mental problems. Top Stories
One of the soldiers was "almost incoherent" and visibly shaking while describing marital problems to a neighbor. Another became unable to control his anger at his wife in public, startling those who knew him. A third puzzled his new neighbors with his strange behavior.
Soldiers at Fort Bragg said they are well aware of mental problems linked to the anti-malaria drug Lariam, which include aggression, depression, paranoia, hallucinations and suicidal thinking, even as official military spokesmen dismiss a connection between the drug and the events around Fayetteville this summer which have drawn national attention.
Spokesmen for the Army, which invented the drug and says it is safe, told UPI the Army will review scientific literature on Lariam, also called mefloquine, but believe it played no role in any of the deaths because there is evidence of domestic problems in each one.
Over the years, Lariam's label, written by manufacturer Hoffmann-La Roche and approved by the Food and Drug Administration, has included increasingly troublesome side effects, and warns about aggression, paranoia, psychosis, hallucinations and suicidal thinking. Some patients complain of severe side effects lasting years after they stopped taking the drug.
The Army will not say whether any of the soldiers took Lariam, but a source close to members of the secret Delta Force said Wednesday that Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Floyd had taken Lariam in Afghanistan. Delta Force is the U.S. Army's elite counter-terrorism unit.
UPI confirmed last week that Master Sgt. William Wright and Sgt. 1st Class Rigoberto Nieves both were given Lariam. Lariam is the Army's drug of choice over other alternatives for preventing malaria.
Wright is charged with murder in the death of his wife, Jennifer. Nieves and Floyd shot themselves to death after killing their wives, according to authorities.
Floyd, who served in Delta Force, shot his wife and then himself in their home outside Stedman on July 19, seven months after returning from Afghanistan, according to authorities.
Andrea Floyd's mother, Penny Flitcraft, said Brandon's behavior had changed markedly since his last deployment to Afghanistan. For the first time, he would lash out at his wife in front of other family members, soldiers or in public.
"Before Afghanistan, he might have been unkind to her one on one," Flitcraft said. But after Afghanistan, "his behavior was increasingly bad."
"He became extremely verbally abusive to Andrea," according to Flitcraft, shocking family members.
Flitcraft said Brandon had started acting very strange after his return. In early July, Andrea had planned to take their three kids to see Flitcraft in Lexington, Ohio, when Brandon then insisted on going with her. Just two hours after arriving, Brandon then insisted the entire family pile back into the car for the nine-hour drive back to North Carolina.
"It was the last time I saw my daughter alive," Flitcraft said.
Master Sgt. William Wright, a special operations soldier, had difficulty speaking coherently, was shaking and seemed withdrawn after returning from Afghanistan in May, according to his neighbor and family friend Betty Clark. Wright is charged with murder in the strangling death of his wife, Jennifer, on June 29. He originally reported her missing but on July 19, he led sheriff's deputies to her body buried in a shallow grave.
"He had been getting worse and worse," since returning from Afghanistan to serious domestic problems, Clark said. "He was very nervous, not to say agitated, but nervous ... I think it was just life he had problems dealing with."
Wright came to Clark's home to discuss his marital problems, she said. "When he would try to talk he would have difficulty. He was having so much difficulty relating to us. He would stutter and stammer a lot.
"At points," she said, he was "almost incoherent - hands shaking, difficulty talking."
Wright's attorney, Thomas Maher, said Wright told him he had taken Lariam and while he did not blame the drug for any specific side effects, described a feeling of "floating" since returning from Afghanistan. "He felt like he was kind of floating when he got back," Maher said.
Maher said Wright had moved out of the family home just outside Fayetteville at his wife's request and that they were discussing a divorce. Maher said that Wright wanted to save the marriage because he did not want to be separated from his three sons, but his wife had already begun telling people the couple was divorced.
Wright's superior officer, Maj. Daniel Barzyk, said some soldiers in Afghanistan had been taken off Lariam and switched to an alternative drug for what he described as "erratic behavior." Barzyk said he himself sometimes experienced increased anger because of Lariam.
Barzyk said he saw no sign that Wright had problems while in Afghanistan. But he noted that an Internet search shows the drug has been associated with mental problems.
According to a military source familiar with a third case, Sgt. 1st Class Rigoberto Nieves was also given Lariam in Afghanistan. Nieves shot his wife Teresa and then himself in a bathroom of their Fayetteville home on June 11th, according to police. That was two days after he returned home early from Afghanistan to address what he said were personal problems.
The Nieves settled on their home in a quiet middle-class subdivision on the edge of Fayetteville while Rigoberto was still deployed. Neighbors said they were puzzled by his behavior when he returned. They said he went to neighbors' houses, did not introduce himself, but would declare that he was "the man of the house," neighbors said.
There was no indication that a fourth soldier suspected of killing his wife, Sgt. Cedric Griffin, had been deployed where Lariam would have been prescribed.
Family of soldiers said they have long known about problems with Lariam.
"I don't know why the Army would tell them that it's OK, when obviously it's doing things to people," said Sheila Harriman, the wife of Stanley Harriman, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was killed during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan. She also said her husband did contract malaria once, and that soldiers should take something to avoid suffering from the disease.
The Army first told UPI it had no plans to consider Lariam in its own review of the facts surrounding the deaths, but on Aug. 9th sent a statement saying that review would include a search of the medical literature about Lariam.
Army officials have also said Lariam probably did not play a role in the killings because the soldiers' marriages were in trouble. "I think you are heading down the wrong road. That is just my personal opinion," said Maj. Gary Kolb, spokesman for the Army's Special Operations Command.
Experts on domestic violence said this cluster of killings particularly puzzles them because so far there is no indication that any of the soldiers had a history of domestic violence. In 80 percent of cases an escalating cycle of violence precedes a killing.
Andrea Floyd's mother, Penny Flitcraft said the Army had tried to shut her up and told her to talk only to special operations about her daughter's death, apparently at the hands of her Delta Force husband. Flitcraft said the Army even approached her husband at Brandon funeral and said terrorists might find her by seeing her name in the press.
"The Army is not happy with me," Flitcraft said. But she vowed to keep talking because the deaths still are not fully understood. "They are not shutting me up. My daughter died a useless death. They can't bring my daughter back but I want to prevent this from happening to another mother."
UPI reported in May that mounting evidence suggests Lariam has caused such severe mental problems that in a small percentage of cases it has led to suicide. In July, UPI reported that scores of Peace Corps volunteers are coming forward saying they have suffered severe mental problems, some of which have lasted for years after they stopped taking the drug.
(This story was first published Friday Aug. 16, 2002. J.S. Newton, a freelance reporter, contributed to this story)
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