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Anon,

Here is an case report that says sleep complaints are an essential component of the constellation of symptoms that make up posttraumatic stress disorder:

http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/2/168

Here's an article from the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center:

http://www.websciences.org/cftemplate/NAPS/archives/indiv.cfm?ID=19960171

It also refers to this study, which a library could help you find:

Woodward, S.H. (1993) Sleep disturbances in posttraumatic stress disorder. PTSD Research Quarterly, 4: 5-7.

This New York Times article links the two near the bottom of the article:

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/risk-factors.html

Here's the abstract of an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry. You can get the full text but you must register and purchase it:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/1/110

And here's an abstract on a National Library of Medicine article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17854251

Does this information help?