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Detainee Abuse Photos Related to 03-CID679-64999

DOD | ACLU-RDI 6472
These photos most likely depict the abuse of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was detained, tortured, and killed by U.S. forces near Al Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003. According to an U.S. Army investigation, U.S. officials wrapped Mowhoush in a sleeping bag, tied an electrical cord around him, and suffocated him to death. American officials first reported that he died of natural causes, denying all charges of abuse, but Mowhoush’s autopsy report, finalized almost three months after he was killed, found his cause of death to be “asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression” and labeled it a homicide.
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