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"I don't know how they got it," Capt. John Fleming said about the medical record. "Our policy is we do not release that stuff."
Another U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said during a news conference Wednesday that the woman was discharged Monday and was provided with a copy of her medical record.
Maliki also announced Wednesday the dismissal of Sunni official Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samaraie, who ran the Sunni Endowment, a government agency that oversees Sunni mosques. Samaraie had called for an international investigation of the woman's allegations, and he said many women have been raped by the country's security forces, which are predominantly Shiite.
Violence continued in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq on Wednesday. Bombs exploded in Baghdad, Najaf and Kirkuk, killing at least 15 people, according to police in those regions.
A Black Hawk helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, according to the military. The military said in a statement that none of the nine soldiers aboard suffered serious injuries.
Also on Wednesday, the military disclosed the death of an American soldier killed in northern Baghdad on Tuesday. In addition, the military disclosed the death of a Marine killed Tuesday in Anbar province, in western Iraq. The names were not released.
Caldwell said the first week of the security plan brought a "significant" decrease in sectarian killings, but he noted that the body count remains high because of car bombs and suicide bombers. "The thing we have not been able to bring under control is the number of vehicle-borne IEDs, and in the last few days, the suicide vests," he said, referring to improvised explosive devices. "We think the tactics have slightly switched."
"The effects of the operation will not be seen in days or weeks but over the course of months," he said.
Correspondent Joshua Partlow and special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Naseer Nouri contributed to this report.
