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New Account of '03 Ambush Changes Way a Soldier Died
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 29, 2004

SALEM, Ore., May 28 (AP) — A soldier in the same ambush in which Pfc. Jessica
Lynch was captured was not killed in action but was captured by Iraqi
fighters and then executed, officials said Thursday.

The family of the soldier, Sgt. Donald Walters, 33, of Salem, had pressed
officials for an investigation of his death, and learned the new account from
the Oregon National Guard, which released the details to the public on
Thursday, more than a year after the March 23, 2003, ambush.

The killing is being investigated as a war crime, and suspects have been
identified. Their names have not been released because the investigation is
continuing, said Kay Fristad, a Guard spokeswoman.

In March, the Army posthumously awarded Sergeant Walters the Silver Star for
gallantry with marked distinction. He was also awarded the Bronze Star and
the Purple Heart. This week, he was awarded a P.O.W. medal.

The Pentagon investigated Sergeant Walters's death after his mother, Arlene,
filed Freedom of Information requests, believing that the Army had not given
her son credit for actions first attributed to Private Lynch, like fighting
until his ammunition had run out.

Sergeant Walters "was held separately from his fellow soldiers and killed
while in custody," the National Guard said.

"He was executed — shot twice in the back," Maj. Arnold Strong, a Guard
spokesman, said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "An Iraqi ambulance
driver witnessed six Fedayeen rebels standing outside a building guarding him
while he was still alive. That same witness evacuated his dead body to a
hospital."

The suspects, Major Strong said, are presumed to be members of the fedayeen
paramilitary force that captured Sergeant Walters. Private Lynch and others
were taken captive by different Iraqi forces. Private Lynch was rescued from
an Iraqi hospital on April 1, 2003, and seven others captured in the ambush
were freed 12 days later.

Defense investigators confirmed the account by matching Sergeant Walters's
DNA to blood splatter on the wall where he was executed, Major Strong said.
He died from two gunshot wounds to the back, fired from more than 20 feet
away, Major Strong said in summarizing the investigation findings.