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DOD Memo: Preliminary Analysis for Treatment of Prisoner of War (POW) Violations

July 27, 2004 | DOA | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1406
Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. The video allegedly portrays soldiers with the 1st Battalion 124 Infantry mistreating enemy casualties and prisoners of war during operations in Iraq. Attached statement describes the video, stating there are images of soldiers displaying dead bodies and body parts and using vulgar language. In one scene, soldiers are seen standing around an injured Iraqi man on the ground. The soldiers roll the man over to display a bullet hole in the man's abdomen and an exit wound in his back. The video shows the soldiers kicking the man in the face. Also, the interviewee noted that in the video he/she heard the soldiers state that they were not in a hurry to get medics. The interviewee is under the belief that the man died before medics arrived. In another scene, a prisoner was seen sitting on the ground with his hands bound behind his back, while a soldier struck the prisoner in the face with the butt of his rifle; the soldier did this without provocation. The interviewee noted that the video is long and edited and contained titles to each segment. [Contents redacted].
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INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • Unknown date, Baghdad, Iraq
    • Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. In one scene, soldiers are seen standing around an injured Iraqi man on the ground. The soldiers roll the man over to display a bullet hole in the man's abdomen and an exit wound in his back. The video shows the soldiers kicking the man in the face. Also, the interviewee noted that in the video he/she heard the soldiers state that they were not in a hurry to get medics. The interviewee is under the belief that the man died before medics arrived. [Contents redacted].
  • Unknown date, Baghdad, Iraq
    • Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. The video allegedly portrays soldiers with the 1st Battalion 124 Infantry mistreating enemy casualties and prisoners of war during operations in Iraq. In another scene, a prisoner was seen sitting on the ground with his hands bound behind his back, while a soldier struck the prisoner in the face with the butt of his rifle; the soldier did this without provocation.