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Army Memo re: Memorandum for Counseling: Tigris River Incident, Samarra, Iraq, January 3, 2004

DOA | ACLU-RDI 1771
Memorandum of Counseling for the Lieutenant Colonel who commanded the soldiers who participated in the actions that led to the death by drowning of Mr. Fadhil in the Tigris River on January 3, 2004, and the cover-up that took place after his death. This Memo of Counseling concerns the LTC's leadership failure for telling his "Company Commander, to lie and have his soldiers lie about what actually happened. As a result, several soldiers and officers provided false sworn statements to CD seriously impeding the investigation into the death of a civilian." General Odierno required the LTC to confess his failure to his subordinate commanders and to report back to him thereafter.
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INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • 2004-01-03, Samarra, Iraq, Death
    • On January 3, 2004, an Iraqi national, Civilian, Mr. Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, drowned after being thrown off a bridge into the Tigris River by solders of the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. A First Lieutenant gave orders to his subordinates to have Mr. Fadhil and another victim forced into a river around the Samarra area of Iraq; Mr. Fadhil could not swim and drowned. The Investigation found a cover-up by the command that included the Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Battalion being reprimanded and admonished.