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This is a CID investigation into the death of Zaidan Kalaf Hassan, an Iraqi civilian who was shot during a search of his residence. It is reported that after the members of "A" Company, 1-8 Infantry breached the outer gates of Mr. Hassan's ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Legal Memo, Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), Judicial (Affidavit/Declaration)
Zaidan Kalaf Hassan
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the reported unlawful killing of two (2) unknown Iraqi civilians. This Investigation was initiated upon a tip made by a family member of a soldier. The family member claimed that the soldier unlawfully killed two ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri, an Iraqi national who was reportedly shot & killed on May 16, 2008 in the Jazeera Desert, Iraq. This CID Report is the criminal investigation of a First Lieutenant ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Al Monsour Mohammad Al Jobouri
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into a reported unlawful killing of an Iraqi male during a US Army raid. The accusation was made by an Army Sergeant who claims to have been present on a raid when a Specialist shot an unarmed elderly male dead at the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Email, Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the reported death of two (2) Iraqi men in February 2005. The men, Jasim Mohammed Shihab and Ahmed Jasim Radhi were supposedly killed by US soldiers. investigation was begun more than a year after the deaths of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Email, Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
A CID investigation into the death of an unknown male Abu Ghraib detainee. The report states that the detainee was involved in an altercation with US forces at the facility and suffered a Pneumopericardium (air between the heart and heart ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of an unnamed Iraqi male following a firefight. The Report states that on March 20, 2005, in the vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq, a man who was engaged with coalition forces ...
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq
Physical assault
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of five (5) Iraqis during a raid on a house near Samara, Iraq. It is reported that as soldiers raided a house looking for certain specific insurgents when they shot the Iraqi ...
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mahmood, Samara, Iraq, Ahed Oid Latif, Kassim Karim Mahmood, Omar Al Nissani, Omar Karim Mahmood
Physical assault