Soldier flees rather than go on second deployment to Iraq

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WASHINGTON - An Army enlistee from Los Angeles who escaped through a window in base housing and fled rather than face a second deployment to Iraq had been told that commanders would send him into combat in handcuffs, if necessary, according to his wife and attorney.

Army Spc. Agustin Aguayo, 35, has been missing since fleeing Sept. 2 but wants to turn himself in and would rather face prison than another tour of duty in Iraq, or in any other conflict, said his wife, Helga Aguayo, who recently moved back to California from Germany, where her husband was based.

"My husband has never broken a law, and I am proud of him," she said Wednesday at a news conference in Washington. "He doesn't want to support the war; he cannot do so conscientiously."