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U.S. Army Charges 4 Soldiers in the Drowning Death of an Iraqi Man
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 3, 2004
ASHINGTON, July 2 — Four American soldiers have been charged in the drowning death of an Iraqi detainee who was pushed off a bridge north of Baghdad along with another Iraqi man in January, the Army said Friday.
Three of the soldiers, including one officer, face manslaughter charges, while the fourth has been charged with assault in the nighttime incident that happened on a bridge over the Tigris River in Samarra, 60 miles north of the Iraqi capital. All four soldiers were also accused of making false statements about the incident.
The new charges filed against the four soldiers, who are with the Fourth Infantry Division, come just two weeks after a captain in the First Armored Division was charged with murder and dereliction of duty in the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian on May 21 after a chase in Kufa, in south-central Iraq.
Word of the charges was reported in Colorado newspapers on Friday after the Army issued a news release locally, and the full details of the charges were released by the Army later in the day.
The Army has now opened investigations into the deaths of at least 40 Iraqi detainees, and the new charges announced reflect a widening pattern of prisoner abuse, including deaths and assault, that took place beyond the confines of the Abu Ghraib prison.
Two military intelligence soldiers with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo., are expected to face criminal charges in the death of a senior Iraqi officer, Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who died last November at a detention center run by the unit, a senior Army official said Friday.
The soldiers had acknowledged to investigators that interviews with the general involved "physical assaults," but investigators later determined that General Mowhoush died after being shoved head-first into a sleeping bag and smothered during questioning.
http://www.nytimes.c...ast/03ABUS.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 3, 2004
ASHINGTON, July 2 — Four American soldiers have been charged in the drowning death of an Iraqi detainee who was pushed off a bridge north of Baghdad along with another Iraqi man in January, the Army said Friday.
Three of the soldiers, including one officer, face manslaughter charges, while the fourth has been charged with assault in the nighttime incident that happened on a bridge over the Tigris River in Samarra, 60 miles north of the Iraqi capital. All four soldiers were also accused of making false statements about the incident.
The new charges filed against the four soldiers, who are with the Fourth Infantry Division, come just two weeks after a captain in the First Armored Division was charged with murder and dereliction of duty in the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian on May 21 after a chase in Kufa, in south-central Iraq.
Word of the charges was reported in Colorado newspapers on Friday after the Army issued a news release locally, and the full details of the charges were released by the Army later in the day.
The Army has now opened investigations into the deaths of at least 40 Iraqi detainees, and the new charges announced reflect a widening pattern of prisoner abuse, including deaths and assault, that took place beyond the confines of the Abu Ghraib prison.
Two military intelligence soldiers with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo., are expected to face criminal charges in the death of a senior Iraqi officer, Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who died last November at a detention center run by the unit, a senior Army official said Friday.
The soldiers had acknowledged to investigators that interviews with the general involved "physical assaults," but investigators later determined that General Mowhoush died after being shoved head-first into a sleeping bag and smothered during questioning.
http://www.nytimes.c...ast/03ABUS.html
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Posted 03 July 2004 - 09:23 AM
I think I'm going to end up moving to Canada. The U.S. is just pissing way too many other countries off these days. I'm so tired of war stuff. 
