US charges Marine Corps officer in Iraq assaults

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has charged a Marine Corps officer with assaulting three Iraqi civilians in a town west of Baghdad in April, the Marines said on Wednesday.

The officer, 2nd Lt. Nathan Phan, also was charged with three counts of assault and one count of making a false official statement relating to the incident on April 10, 2006, near Hamdania. snip

The Marines said the incident was separate from one in the same town that took place on April 26 in which seven Marines and a Navy medic were charged in June with premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian.