Call for new probe into Irish-American's death

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A retired US Army Reserve Colonel has called on the US congress to compel the US army to re-investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Connemara native Ciara Durkin in Afghanistan last Sep

Colonel Ann Wright has researched the suspicious noncombat deaths of military women in Iraq and in Afghanistan

She has concluded that specific US Army units and certain US military bases in those countries have an inordinate number of women soldiers who have died of noncombat related injuries, with several identified as suicides

 94 US military women have died in Iraq or during Operation Iraqi Freedom

Wright says that at least 15 of these deaths occurred under extremely suspicious circumstances

30-year-old finance specialist was found lying near a church on the very secure Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, with a single gunshot wound to her head

She had recently told her relatives to press for answers if anything happened to he

she was gay