{"id":572131,"date":"2010-05-20T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/us-military-launches-investigation-into-afghanistan-civilian-deaths.php"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:30:23","slug":"us-military-launches-investigation-into-afghanistan-civilian-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/572131","title":{"rendered":"US military launches investigation into Afghanistan civilian deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontdod.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" width=\"5\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] The US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\">Department of Defense<\/a> [official website] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=59261\">announced<\/a> [press release] on Thursday that US Forces-Afghanistan has launched an investigation into allegations that a &#8220;small number&#8221; of soldiers are responsible for the unlawful deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan. The Army&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cid.army.mil\/\">Criminal Investigation Command<\/a> [official website] began the investigation earlier this month after receiving credible information from the soldiers&#8217; unit. No charges have yet been filed against the soldiers suspected in the unlawful deaths, but one soldier has been placed in &#8220;pre-trial confinement.&#8221; The probe also includes investigation into allegations of illegal drug use, assault and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Collateral damage has been a major issue in both the <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=Afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=iraq\">Iraq<\/a> [JURIST news archives] wars. Last month, a military appeals court <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/04\/us-military-appeals-court-overturns.php\">reversed the conviction<\/a> [JURIST report] of US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III for the 2006 killing of an Iraqi civilian, citing lack of a fair trial. Hutchins was serving an 11-year sentence, reduced from <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2007\/08\/us-marine-sentenced-to-15-years-for.php\">15 years<\/a> [JURIST report], for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/unit\/marforcent\/Pages\/LOAC\/HamdaniaInvestigations.aspx\">Hamdania<\/a> [USMC materials; JURIST <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=Hamdania\">news archive<\/a>]. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2007\/08\/us-marine-convicted-of-murdering-iraqi.php\">convicted<\/a> [JURIST report] in 2007 of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, making a false official statement, and larceny. Six Marines <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2007\/02\/sixth-us-serviceman-enters-guilty-plea.php\">pleaded guilty<\/a> [JURIST report] to charges related to their roles in the incident, which involved Awad being removed from his residence and killed, then arranged with a shovel and firearm to appear as if he were planting an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] announced [press release] on Thursday that US Forces-Afghanistan has launched an investigation into allegations that a &#8220;small number&#8221; of soldiers are responsible for the unlawful deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan. The Army&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Command [official website] began the investigation earlier this month after receiving credible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}