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RelevanceDateRelease Date
June 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1985
Sets up meetings for Army senior leadership to be briefed on IG report on Tues, 29 June 2004.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Paul Mikolashek, Stanley E. Green
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1986
The email sets up a review of Major General Taguba's report.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1987
Attaches document entitled "grave v. simple breaches" (presumably of Geneva Conventions). Attached document not provided.
May 24, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 616
Detainee allegation of abuse at the hands of his fellow detainees. The detainee claimed that he had been beaten by fellow detainees and had had urine thrown on him. No evidence was found to substantiate the claim.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Jay W. Hood
Jay W. Hood
Nov. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 618
Report of incident in which a detainee claimed that other detainees are beating and threatening to kill him for being a spy.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Threat, Assault/death
May 24, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 619
This memo is a report of a finding concerning a detainee's allegation that fellow detainees are beating and threatening to kill him has no substantiation, and that none of them considered him a spy. The report concluded that there was no evidence ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Jay W. Hood
Jay W. Hood
Dec. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 620
This is a report form used by the U.S. Army to log and detail alleagtions of abuse. This report pertains to an allegation by one detainee that 6-7 other detainees have beaten him and accuse him of being a spy. The details are almost completely ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 621
Army Action Plan: Job Action Sheet Detention Hospital Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Blank form for manpower pool coordinator.
Mar. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 622
Army Action Plan: Medical Intervention for Helminthic Infections. Standard Operating Procedure.
July 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 623
Army Action Plan: Latent Tuberculosis Management. Standard Operating Procedure.