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Article 15 Proceeding: Charges Against Major for Impeding an Investigation (0011-04-CID469-79630)

Mar. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1773
TYPE: UCMJ (Article 15)
RELEASE DATE: Nov. 30, 2005 | DOA
SOURCE: ACLU FOIA Request (Oct. 7, 2003)
This Article 15 Proceeding concerns an incident at the Tigris River Bridge in: Samarra, Iraq, January 3, 2004. The charges against the Major are for impeding the investigation in to the matter by wrongfully attempting to influence soldiers to make either make false, misleading or incomplete sworn statements regarding incident in which two (2) detainees were pushed into Tigris River near Samarra where one of them (an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil) drowned.
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  • 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.
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