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Fay Report Annex: DOD Interview of Human Intelligence Interrogator re: Conditions at Abu Ghraib Detention Facility

May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 838
Interviewee was assigned to AG on October 19, 2003 as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collector/Interrogator assigned to the Military Intelligence Group. Interviewee recalled a number of incidents. In the first incident, a MP Officer was escorting a detainee down a flight of stairs and the detainee appeared to trip and fall down the stairs, the detainee was handcuffed, leg-shackled and hooded. In the second incident, the interviewee arrived to the hard site and saw [redacted] "roughly" place a sandbag over a detainee's head and "roughly" pull the detainee into the hard site. The men then threatened to strip the detainee, but [redacted] intervened and the detainee's clothes were returned. In a third incident, the interviewee witnessed a MP Dog Handler, with his dog, and a MP enter the cell of juvenile detainees, one named 'Casper.' "The kids were screaming, the smaller one hiding behind [redacted]. The handler allowed the dog to get within about one foot of the kids. Afterward, I heard the Dog Handler say that he had a competition with another Handler to see if they could scare detainees to the point they would defecate." Recalled going to visit a detainee and seeing bites on his thighs, when asked by the interviewee what happened, the detainee said that the dog bit him, "started to cry, and asked to be sent back to Iran." Interviewee also recalled a GTMO Team member told him/her that they were authorized to strip a detainee completely naked in the interrogation booth. Recalled instances of walking through the hard site and seeing detainees without jumpsuits and recalled seeing detainees in women's underwear. Also recalled someone reporting to him that OGA violated the isolation limit rule.
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  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was assigned to AG on October 19, 2003 as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collector/Interrogator assigned to the Military Intelligence Group. Interviewee recalled a number of incidents. In the first incident, a MP Officer was escorting a detainee down a flight of stairs and the detainee appeared to trip and fall down the stairs, the detainee was handcuffed, leg-shackled and hooded.
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was assigned to AG on October 19, 2003 as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collector/Interrogator assigned to the Military Intelligence Group. Interviewee recalled a number of incidents. In the second incident, the interviewee arrived to the hard site and saw [redacted] "roughly" place a sandbag over a detainee's head and "roughly" pull the detainee into the hard site. The men then threatened to strip the detainee, but [redacted] intervened and the detainee's clothes were returned.
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was assigned to AG on October 19, 2003 as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collector/Interrogator assigned to the Military Intelligence Group. Interviewee recalled a number of incidents. In a third incident, the interviewee witnessed a MP Dog Handler, with his dog, and a MP enter the cell of juvenile detainees, one named 'Casper.' "The kids were screaming, the smaller one hiding behind [redacted]. The handler allowed the dog to get within about one foot of the kids. Afterward, I heard the Dog Handler say that he had a competition with another Handler to see if they could scare detainees to the point they would defecate." Recalled going to visit a detainee and seeing bites on his thighs, when asked by the interviewee what happened, the detainee said that the dog bit him, "started to cry, and asked to be sent back to Iran."