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CID Report: 0046-03-CID899-63502

Oct. 2, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 15
Two NCOs and two enlisted men from B Company, 1/36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division severely assaulted several detained youths while the detainees' heads were covered with sandbags and their hands restrained with flexi-cuffs. The assaults, as described by other soldiers, included beating a juvenile's head against the wall and rapidly punching his body. The same soldiers struck and abused three (3) detainees in a separate incident on 6/29/03, causing a broken collar bone, fractured ribs, a partial collapsed lung, facial fracture, and bowel problems. The soldiers are accused of routinely stealing money, referred to as the “Robin Hood Tax” from detainees to purchase personal items for their platoon. Two of the soldiers routinely urinated and spat on detainees. One sergeant shot out the back window of an elderly, Iraqi's vehicle after the vehicle had been cleared to proceed through a traffic checkpoint. All three NCOs had summary courts-martial: one (the supervisor who condoned the assaults) received a reprimand and fine; another was reduced in grade to private first class and placed in custody for 60 days; the summary court-martial dismissed charges as to the third. The two enlisted men received Chapter 10 discharges.
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  • 2003-06-11, Baghdad, Iraq
    • Two NCOs and two enlisted men from B Co.. 1/36th Inf. Rgt., 1st Armored Div. severely assaulted several detained youths on 6/11/03, while the detainees' heads were covered with sandbags and their hands restrained with flexi-cuffs.  The assaults, as described by other soldiers, included beating a juvenile's head against the wall and rapidly punching his body.  The same soldiers physically struck and abused three detainees in a separate incident on 6/29/03, causing a broken collar bone, fractured ribs, a partial collapsed lung, facial fracture, and bowel problems.  The soldiers routinely stole money, referred to as the "Robin Hood Tax," from detainees to purchase sodas, food, ice, beer, whiskey and gin for their platoon.  Two soldiers routinely urinated and spat on detainees.  One sergeant shot out the back window of an elderly, cooperative Iraqi's vehicle after the vehicle had been cleared to proceed through a traffic checkpoint.  Testimony was submitted indicating that a lieutenant instructed his soldiers to keep a stash of foreign weapons to use as plants in case one of his soldiers accidentally killed a civilian.  One soldier shaved off the eyebrows of an accused thief and wrote "thief" on his forehead.