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Fay Report Annex: DOD Interview re: Conditions at Abu Ghraib Detention Facility

May 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 833
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). In the interviewee's sworn statement, recalled observing a detainee hooded and handcuffed to a railing. Interviewee recalled seeing dogs used during interrogations, in one instance, the dogs went into a cell and while the dogs barked, they were not close enough to hurt the detainee...During this particular incident, there was a sense of urgency, word circulated around that LTG Sanchez had given blanket approval for somewhat harsher interrogation methods. Interviewee also recalled hearing that Military Police (MP) poured a bucket of water on a detainee. Also, reported seeing a MP "put his hands over the nose and mouth of the policeman, cutting off his air flow and not allowing him to breathe...At another point, [he] used his collapsible nightstick to push and possibly twist the policeman's arm causing some pain." Reported an incident in which "the detainee was in an isolation cell and one or two MPs and a male dog handler with a leashed, but unmuzzled, dog outside the cell. The detainee was handcuffed to the cell door on the inside and the dog was allowed to jump up at the door and bark and snarl.
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  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview. Interview stated that he observed a detainee hooded and handcuffed to a railing. When he inquired about the detainee, a MP told him that the MPs were short handed and the MP "often had to 'park' a detainee somewhere if they could not immediately return him to his cell."
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview. The second incident he recalled was a detainee "we commonly referred to as 'shitty' because he would often defecate in his cell and throw the feces around, at time throwing it at MPs...on this particular occasion at night [redacted] saw him sleeping on a mattress on the floor in the hallway, handcuffed and covered with a blanket. [redacted] asked the MP what was going on was informed the detainee defecated in the cell, covered himself with feces and thrown feces around the cell and at the MPs."
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview. Recalled the evening of a shooting in the Hard Site that LTG Sanchez gave a blanket approval for "somewhat harsher interrogation." Stated that during this time an IP was taken into a shower room where a MP threw a bucket of water at him "to wake him up."
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview. Interviewee also recalled an incident where a detainee had a gun in his cell and had to be taken by force. During his interrogation, the MPs used a particular MP as intimidation, telling the detainee to answer or the particular MP would return. The MP, at one point, put his hand over the nose and mouth of the detainee (cutting off his airflow). At another time, the MP used his collapsible nightstick to push and possibly twist the detainee's arm causing pain. Also stated that when the MP walked out of the cell, he told the interviewee he "knew how to do this without leaving any marks."
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview. Interviewee recalled dogs were authorized and used on site. The interviewee also recalled an incident where a detainee was in isolation and one-two MPs and a male dog handler with a leashed, but unmuzzled dog approached the detainee's cell, the detainee was handcuffed to the cell door, the dog was allowed to jump up at the door, bark and snarl.