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Fay Report Annex: Statement of Corporal, Interrogator, 325th Military Intelligence Battalion re: Detainee Interrogations and Conditions at Abu Ghraib Prison

Jan. 31, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 721
This sworn statement by a Corporal, interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Battalion. Explained that detainees would be brought to him either in handcuffs or not, would request that they be blindfolded sometimes, sometimes the detainee would be seated during the interrogation or standing and sometimes the detainee would remain in handcuffs and sometimes not. Reported: "When I was walking through the isolation cells part of the prison, I saw prisoners being handcuffed to each other naked... One of the MPs took a Nerf football and threw it at the detainees and another MP threw water at the detainees." Reported detainees being forced to do exercises, particularly, they were making them do exercises and 'smoking' them. Reported: "Once I saw a detainee being walked on their hands and knees with a leash by an MP." "I saw MPs walking detainees on a leash and handcuffing them together...They walked out of the isolation section, up onto the second floor, through the whole isolation section, then they went down to where the Iraqi police were and they went back to the first floor...There was a third detainee...He was naked and they made him do push-ups, low crawl on the ground. [The MPs] were yelling at the detainee while he was doing this. There was no kicking or punching, if they wanted him to go the ground they would move the detainees arm to the ground and push them down."
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RECEIVING AGENCIES:
INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was an interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade. Reported: "When I was walking through the isolation cells part of the prison, I saw prisoners being handcuffed to each other naked... One of the MPs took a Nerf football and threw it at the detainees and another MP threw water at the detainees."
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was an interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade. Reported detainees being forced to do exercises, particularly, they were making them do exercises and 'smoking' them.
  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Interviewee was an interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade. Reported: "Once I saw a detainee being walked on their hands and knees with a leash by an MP." "I saw MPs walking detainees on a leash and handcuffing them together...They walked out of the isolation section, up onto the second floor, through the whole isolation section, then they went down to where the Iraqi police were and they went back to the first floor...There was a third detainee...He was naked and they made him do push-ups, low crawl on the ground. [The MPs] were yelling at the detainee while he was doing this. There was no kicking or punching, if they wanted him to go the ground they would move the detainees arm to the ground and push them down."