Police: Iraq a factor in US soldier's suicide

An American soldier who had told his family he did not want to return to Iraq apparently killed himself in a Puerto Rican motel days before he was to join his unit and head back to the war zone, police in the US territory said today.

Nokware Rosado Munoz, 28, had been arguing with his pregnant wife about his redeployment before hanging himself on Sunday, said Lieutenant Edilberto Rivera Santiago, director of the police homicide division in the San Juan suburb of Bayamon.