Army Reprimand Reported in Slaying

[TacticalPeek]

Army Reprimand Reported in Slaying
Officers Allegedly Killed Afghan in '02

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 14, 2004; Page A24

The Army's Special Operations Command issued an administrative reprimand this year against one of four U.S. military officers in Afghanistan alleged in an Army document to have murdered a local man they believed was following their movements, according to Army officials and a newly disclosed internal document.

The case, which an Army document last June said involved alleged "murder, conspiracy, obstruction of justice," was opened on Sept. 26, 2002, and closed on March 23 of this year, without public announcement. The document was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in a recent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and released by the group with dozens of other government memos last week.

The reprimand came in what defense officials said yesterday was one of at least eight deaths of Afghans in U.S. military custody since U.S. troops first occupied the country in October 2001 -- a higher number than previously disclosed. Two U.S. servicemen have so far been charged with crimes related to two of the other deaths; the Army has already said charges may be brought against 28 people implicated in one of these deaths.

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Hart said the decision not to prosecute was made by the U.S. Army's Special Forces Command. A spokesman there declined to comment, and passed the question to the U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, whose spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Steven Mavica, said he had no information about the case.


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[GeorgeGist]

1. Reprimand???!!!

Is there no end to the depths to which these hypocrits won't slink? Guess not.

[saigon68]

2. Just ANOTHER COLD BLOODED MURDER

by US troops