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CIA Copy of New Yorker Article: Torture at Abu Ghraib
Apr. 30, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5104
CIA copy of a New Yorker article tracing the responsibility for American soldiers brutalizing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib.
AUTHORING AGENCIES:
OFFICIALS MENTIONED:
- Janis Leigh Karpinski
- Ricardo Sanchez
- Antonio Taguba
- Ivan L. Frederick, II
- Charles A. Graner, Jr.
- Javal Sean Davis
- Megan M. Ambuhl
- Sabrina D. Harman
- Jeremy C. Sivits
- Lynndie Rana England
- Joseph M. Darby
- Scott Bobeck
- Jerry Phillabaum
- Donald J. Ryder
- Jason Kennel
- Thomas Pappas
- Steven Jordan
- Geoffrey D. Miller
- Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Ricardo Sanchez
METHODS MENTIONED:
INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
- Unknown date
- At the Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, numerous instances of abuse occurred including "[b]reaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee."