The soldier was tried by court martial and acquitted by a jury of officers and enlisted men.
Another file describes an investigation of the killing of two Afghan men that was prompted by a report in the New York Times. U.S. soldiers allegedly shot and killed two fleeing villagers. While noting that the investigators had declined to exhume the bodies or obtain a copy of the Afghan police report on the incident, the investigation concluded that there was "insufficient evidence to prove if [four Special Forces soldiers] committed the offense of Murder."
Yet another file describes an investigation of a riot at a U.S. interment facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq, evidently related to claims that U.S. personnel had defaced the Qur’an. At least four Iraqi prisoners were shot and killed by Coalition Forces during the disturbance.
One of the few files in which an investigation recommended disciplinary action involved the death of a six-month old child who died in a traffic accident. The file determined that the U.S. driver should be charged with negligent homicide and reckless endangerment.
The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Attorneys on the FOIA project are Wizner, Bargzie, and Jameel Jaffer of the national ACLU, and Art Spitzer of the ACLU of the National Capital Area.
For more information on the ACLU's efforts to obtain information on the human costs of war in Iraq and Afghanistan go to
www.aclu.org/civiliancasualties
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