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To: xcr600 who wrote (12182)	5/30/2003 4:18:37 PM
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Whoops! Heard this on NBC last night. This guy was locked up under our protection because a mob was going to lynch him.-- U.S. releases suspected Iraqi war criminal By Pamela Hess UPI Pentagon Correspondent From the International Desk Published 5/29/2003 6:06 PM WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- U.S. military forces mistakenly released a man suspected of being an Iraqi war criminal from a prisoner-of-war camp in Umm Qasr on May 18, and U.S. Central Command is offering $25,000 for information leading to his capture, Centcom said Thursday. Mohammed Jawad An-Neifus is suspected of being involved in the execution of between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqi Shiites after their 1991 uprising. Many of their remains were found in a mass grave in Mahawil, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. As many as 15,000 bodies were found in the grave in early May. An-Neifus was released from the Bucca Internment facility after being interviewed by a military lawyer. He was first detained by U.S. Marines near al-Hillah on April 26 and was turned over to Army military police on April 29. "When he appeared for his initial screening, there was nothing unusual about the story he told that alerted the JAG (judge advocate general) officer to his true identity. Therefore, he was cleared for release," Centcom said. "U.S. military forces are solely responsible for his erroneous release and are conducting a thorough investigation to ensure no further recurrences," it added. The U.S. military took more than 9,000 prisoners during the war and has released more than 7,000, most of them from the facility at Umm Qasr, military officials told Pentagon reporters May 8. An-Neifus is not on the list of Iraq's "most wanted." It has been a week full of bad news for the U.S. military. A soldier was killed Thursday by a sniper as he traveled in a supply convoy in Iraq, the fifth in a week from hostile fire in a country where combat was declared over. On Wednesday, Army soldiers shot and killed two Iraqi civilians when they ran a coalition checkpoint near Samara. Two American soldiers died and nine were wounded May 27 in Al Fallujah when a band of attackers fired on them at a checkpoint. On May 26, one U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their Humvee ran over a landmine or unexploded ordnance on Highway 8. That same day another U.S. soldier was killed and one wounded when their supply convoy was attacked near Hadithah, a town about 120 miles northwest of Baghdad. Three soldiers also died in accidents in Iraq this week. One soldier drowned in an aqueduct where he was swimming; another died in a vehicle collision, and a third was killed when Iraqi ammunition he was guarding exploded. Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International