http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21443139.htmGroup says records show US detainee abuse cover-up
<snip>Another memo from Army criminal investigators dated Nov. 23, 2003, said Obed Hethere Radad, a prisoner held in Tikrit, was fatally shot without warning by a U.S. Army soldier using an M16 rifle last year on the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Rather than allowing Army criminal investigators to handle the case, an Army commander quickly convened a legal proceeding that resulted in the soldier being demoted in rank and discharged from the military, the memo showed. There was no autopsy and no crime scene evidence was collected.
Criminal investigators eventually found probable cause to charge the soldier with murder but could not because he had left the military, the memo added.
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