WASHINGTON — Poor leadership and complacency in a U.S. military unit contributed to the abduction and murder by insurgents of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston and another soldier in Iraq last year, near where three soldiers vanished last weekend, according to an internal Army report.
The mutilated bodies of Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker were recovered three days after their June 16 kidnapping. The attack in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, appeared eerily similar to the assault on Saturday that left four GIs dead and the three others missing.
"This was an event caused by numerous acts of complacency and a lack of standards at the platoon level," according to the report, obtained by the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday.
Army faults officers in soldier's death
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