| Four soldiers charged in drowning death { July 2 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124542,00.htmlhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124542,00.html
Four Soldiers Charged in Iraqi's Death Friday, July 02, 2004
FORT CARSON, Colo. — Four soldiers have been charged in the drowning death of an Iraqi forced to jump off a bridge in Samarra (search), north of Baghdad, according to media reports.
The soldiers, all from Fort Carson, were reportedly part of a patrol that detained two Iraqi men in January and ordered them to jump off a bridge into the Tigris River (search). One man survived.
Three of the soldiers have been charged with manslaughter and the fourth with assault, according to the Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post and KUSA-TV, all citing unnamed sources.
The four soldiers are with the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, which returned to Fort Carson from Iraq in April after a one-year deployment, according to the reports.
A Fort Carson spokeswoman referred calls to division headquarters at Fort Hood, Texas.
In separate cases involving Fort Carson soldiers, Chief Warrant Officers Lewis Welshofer and Jeff Williams were reprimanded and forbidden from conducting further interrogations after the death of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush.
Mowhoush died from asphyxiation due to smothering and chest compression, according to Pentagon documents obtained by the Post. The newspaper has reported that the military plans to charge Welshofer and Williams.
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