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Rights Waiver Certificates: (0011-04-CID469-79630)

Jan. 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1560
TYPE: Investigative File (CID)
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 2005 | DOA
SOURCE: ACLU FOIA Request (Oct. 7, 2003)
These documents are Rights Waiver Certificates executed by three (3) soldiers involved in an incident at the Samarra Bridge over the Tigris River in Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004. The soldiers were part of of the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. They participated in throwing an Iraqi civilian, Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil, off the bridge and he subsequently drowned in the Tigris River. These Rights waiver Certificates is an acknowledgment and waiving of certain rights available to the soldiers under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
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DETAINEES MENTIONED:
INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • 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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