Jack M. Saville

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First Lieutenant Jack M. Saville is an Officer in the U.S. Army.

On 3 January 2004, he gave orders to his soldiers that forced at gunpoint, civilian plumbers Zaidoun Hassoun, 19, and Marwan Fadel to leap from a road bridge in Samarra, Iraq, into the waters of the River Tigris below. The cousins Hassoun and Fadel had been caught by a U.S. checkpoint after curfew. Fadel managed to reach the riverbank, but claims that he saw Hassoun drown and that the family later retrieved and buried the body.

The battalion commander of the four soldiers, Lt. Col. Nate Sassaman, was reprimanded this year for impeding investigators. [1]

On 8 January 2005, a military court in Fort Hood, Texas, USA, acquitted SSG. Tracy E. Perkins of manslaughter but convicted him of aggravated assault and obstruction of justice. He received a prison term of six months and a reduction in rank.

First Lieutenant Saville]], was convicted of a lesser assault charge for doing nothing to stop another Iraqi man from being forced into the river near Balad in December 2003. He plead guilty assault and other crimes for forcing two curfew violators into the river at gunpoint in January 2004 near Samarra.

He was sentenced to 45 days in a military prison for his role in forcing three Iraqi civilians into the Tigris River and he must forfeit $2,000 of his military salary each month for six months before he is discharged from the Army.