User:Geo Swan/look/Jeffrey Waruch

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Update
I requested userification of of Jeffrey Waruch earlier this year when Edward L. Richmond (Pfc) was discussed at afd. I agreed, at that time, that Richmond's article should be changed into an article about the shooting incident.

Earlier today I looked at this article, and considered either placing a db-author on it, or merging it with the article on the Richmond shooting incident.

I found there were possibly enough references to support Waruch being involved in 2 events. So I am going to ask for input from others as to:
 * 1) deletion
 * 2) merge to the Richmond incident
 * 3) restore to article space... Geo Swan (talk) 23:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

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Sergeant Jeffrey Waruch was a witness against his subordinate, Edward L. Richmond, who was convicted on involuntary manslaughter. On February 28 2004, Richmond shot an unarmed, bound Iraqi captive in the back of the head. Waruch, and others, testified that Richmond had asked for permission to shoot cowherd Muhamad Husain Kadir. Waruch's team had Kadir under observation, prior to investing his village. Kadir was unarmed, and they had no reason to assume he had any ties to resistance fighters. Yet, according to the testimony of Waruch and other, Richmond asked permission to shoot Kadir, and said he "wanted to shoot an Iraqi".

On October 3 2005, Richmond's lawyer, Charles Gittins, initiated an appeal based on the allegation that Waruch himself had been involved in a civilian shooting ten days earlier, on February 8, 2004. According to Gittins:

In January 2006 Waruch too was discharged from the Army, for the earlier February 8, 2004 shooting. James M. Skelly, a senior fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace & Conflict Studies, described several problems that cropped up prior to Waruch's deployment to Iraq. Marcus Warner, the Staff Sergeant of Waruch's platoon, described Waruch as "a cancer to my soldiers", that he didn't him deployed to Iraq, and that he wanted him "to get … out of my platoon." According to Skelly not long before his Iraqi deployment two women had restraining orders filed against Waruch, and that he had been required to surrender his personal weapons.

The trigger for the shooting was an improvised explosive device explosion that caused minor injuries. Waruch shot Shaha Jawad al-Jabouri, her daughter Intisar al-Jabouri, and another daughter, who had been weeding a beanfield half a mile away when the explosion went off. Skelly wrote that, after the explosion:

Skelly wrote that Major-General Benjamin R Mixon, the commander of Waruch's Division chose to discharge Waruch, rather than lay charges against him, even though he had been told Waruch violated the rules of engagement.

A 2012 article in The Atlantic, about what can go wrong when soldiers are tasked to a police role, specifically cited Waruch's instructions prior to the incident where Waruch was shot. Rizer noted that Waruch's instructions to his men were authorized to shoot all men who fled the village, but they should ask a superior first -- if one was conveniently nearby. Rizer represented Richmond's request to shoot Muhamad Husain Kadir as a follow-up to Waruch's initial order.