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CID Report: 0147-2004-CID013-64389
July 26, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 147
Investigation initiated after Playboy Magazine published an article in May 2004, titled “Death and Dishonor,” alleging that soldiers of the 1/15th Infantry Battalion, 3d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division (Ft. Benning, GA), committed numerous war crimes. Soldiers quoted in the article alleged that soldiers assigned to the 1/15th Infantry Battalion had, among other things, raped Iraqi women while on patrol and while guarding a mall in Baghdad, shot an unarmed Iraqi while he was fleeing, hog-tied him and physically assaulted him, mistreated EPWs [enemy prisoners of war] while in custody; indiscriminately shot unarmed civilian women and children; and shot wounded Iraqi soldiers. The investigation determined that “there are indications that the allegation of abuse of an EPW while in custody could have occurred; however, there were no direct witnesses and the suspect is deceased. There was no credible information developed sufficient enough to substantiate the allegation”. The investigation was closed on or about July 26, 2004.
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- 2003-03-01, Unknown, Iraq
- Allegations from article that soldiers assigned to the 1/15th Infantry Battalion had, among other things, raped Iraqi women while on patrol and while guarding a mall in Baghdad; shot an unarmed Iraqi while he was fleeing, hog-tied him and physically assaulted him; “dug inside wounds" of enemy prisoners of war while they were incapacitated; indiscriminately shot unarmed civilian women and children; and shot wounded Iraqi soldiers. In a signed statement, one member of the battalion said that another had had sex with Iraqis but that he didn’t “know if they were raped or were prostitutes or just wanted sex.” The same soldier states that he “overheard a conversation that [redacted] stuck his fingers in an open wound of a POW”. Another soldier states that “POW treatment in most cases was very good” but notes one exception in which another soldier hit detainees, burned them with cigarettes, and “stepped on the balls of the POWs”. The soldier who had sex with an Iraqi woman stated that the sex was consensual and that he had paid the woman $10. The investigation determined that “there are indications that the allegation of abuse of an EPW while in custody could have occurred; however, there were no direct witnesses and the suspect is deceased. There was no credible information developed sufficient enough to substantiate the allegation”.
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