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Medical Report: 31-year-old Iraqi Male, Mosul, Iraq (0180-04-C1D259-80227)
Mar. 8, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1058
Medical record relating to investigation of 31 year-old male enemy prisoner of war who was picked up in a raid and brought to enemy prisoner of war camp. The detainee was interrogated on March 19, 2004. The report notes that detainee was bruised, experiencing pain in his foot, had multiple abrasions to his back, chest and legs, and was unable to walk or extend his ankles. Periodic check-ups occurred through July 8, 2004.
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- 2004-03-08, Mosul, Iraq
- A detainee alleged that he was "tortured" at a U.S. facility in Mosul in March 2004. Detainee indicated that after being arrested but before arriving at the facility, his captors -- American men in civilian clothes -- bent his thumb backwards, kicked him, and hit him with the butt of a weapon in the back of the neck. At the facility, which was very cold, he was stripped; allowed only two limited periods of sleep in seven days, and prevented from sleeping by being subjected to loud recordings and being doused with cold water; given only eight biscuits to eat in seven days; assaulted by a translator; and pressed on his joints by U.S. personnel in a manner causing severe pain and temporary paralysis. After his head was hit against a wall, causing him to bleed from his nose and mouth, and causing permanent loss of balance, he was taken to a hospital. However, he was later retrieved by the same team of captors and "I had the same ways of previous torturing, as well as pouring hot liquid on my back, and sitting me close to fire, which resulted in burning a part of my right leg, and they put a very hot lamp on my thigh for a very short time. At the end they threatened me that they would bring my wife and my mother and that they would rape them if I did not confess."
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