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Formica Report Annex 56: Statement of GS-12 Screener at Abu Ghraib Prison re: Screening and Assessment of Detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison
July 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2546
Sworn statement of a government civilian employee (GS-12) regarding detention practices. Mentions detainees "who were complaining" and who "had obvious injuries to their faces, their wrists, and water blisters on their legs." According to the person making this statement, this abuse was attributable to one person, whose name is redacted. Continues, "There was a female detainee that was brought in, I didn't talk to her ... whatever happened to her I have no idea what it was.... [Redacted] said she was humiliated by this guy." Mentions that "one individual had rotator cuff damage so severe he couldn't lift his arms up. He alleged he was handcuffed behind his back, and they were lifted almost to his head.... On one particular individual, his wrist wounds were so severe that they were cut down through the forth [sic] and fifth layers of flesh.... I've been told about the impaling of the rectum with a bottle."
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- 2004-07-18
- Sworn statement by [redacted], who spent "seven or eight months at Abu Ghraib working the interrogation side of the house, the detainee assessment board, and the screening section." Mentions a number of incidents of alleged abuse, including detainees who had "obvious injuries to their faces, their wrists, and water blisters on their legs"; a woman who "had been humiliated"; an individual with "rotator cuff damage so severe he couldn't lift his arms up," allegedly caused by being handcuffed and having his arms "lifted almost to his head"; and another individual with "wrist wounds so severe that they were cut down to the fourth and fifth layer of flesh." States, "I've been told about the impaling of the rectum with a bottle. You saw prisoners that were walking kind of funny, and you knew something was wrong with them, what, I don't know." Attributes most of the incidents of abuse to one particular individual, whose name is redacted.