S.Amdt. 2802

SA 2802. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. REPORT ON CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN SOMALIA.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Commander of the United States
Africa Command shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on the process by which the Commander
investigates allegations of civilian casualties resulting
from United States military operations in Somalia during the
period beginning on January 1, 2017, and ending on November
30, 2018.
(b) Element.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description of--
(A) the criteria applied by the Commander to assess the
credibility of such allegations made by an individual not
affiliated with the Department of Defense; and
(B) the manner in which the Commander overcomes an obstacle
to accessing a location or witness relevant to an
investigation of such civilian casualties.
(2) An explanation of any discrepancy between the
assessment of the Department with respect to specific
civilian casualties and independent reports of such
casualties.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
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