U.S. staff sergeant accused of ‘fragging’ 2 senior officers

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8246860

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Army National Guard staff sergeant has been charged with premeditated murder in a "fragging incident" that killed two senior officers at a U.S. base near Tikrit last week, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Fragging is military slang for intentionally killing a comrade in a wartime setting.

A military statement said that Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez, 37, a supply specialist with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 42nd Infantry Division, was charged Wednesday in the June 7 deaths of the two officers at Forward Operating Base Danger, near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown 80 miles north of Baghdad.

The 42nd Infantry Division is a New York-based National Guard unit.

[NYC]

1. On the ABC television news, they did not use the word, "fragging".

They called it homicide. I thought that was interesting. Seems to me they are trying to avoid announcing that fragging is so "standard" that it has a name.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. wow they are using the word fraging now

which means you can bet far more are occurring folks

[kentuck]

3. So this is not like Vietnam ??

"fragging" ??

[gizmo1979]

4. In Vietnam more

2nd lts were shot from the back than were shot from the front.