Jamal Nasser (c. 1985 – March 16, 2003) was an Afghan soldier who died on March 16, 2003 in United States' custody at a Gardez Fire Base, an American outpost in Afghanistan.
[3] Later, an investigation determined that the account of death by natural causes was a fiction, the result of collusion among the GIs in the Special Forces unit who had custody of Nasser when he died.
Reprimands were filed in the dossiers of several GIs for the failure to report his death.
There are no SOPs [standard operating procedures] … and each unit acts differently.
"Craig Pyes, one of the two LA Times reporters who broke the story, described the process of researching the story for the Neiman Report, the publication of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism.