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Email from Gary Bald to Valerie Caproni re: Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq

June 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3080
TYPE: Email
AUTHOR: Gary M. Bald
RECIPIENT: M. Chris Briese | Valerie E. Caproni
RELEASE DATE: Dec. 15, 2004 | FBI
SOURCE: ACLU FOIA Request (Oct. 7, 2003)
Email to M. Chris Briese concerning a statement of an Iraqi civilian detained by the 2/501st Military Police (MP) Unit at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The detainee states he was turtored "from morning until the morning of the next day"; cuffed in a position called "the Scorpion"; was punched; dragged over babrbed wires; and had cold water poured over him.
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  • 2004-03-04, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq

    • Detainee captured in Iraq claims that while in the custody of U.S. forces (presumably at Abu Ghurayb Prison, Baghdad, Iraq) he claims "The tourtured me, and cuffed me in an act called "the Scorpion", and pouring cold water on me. They tortured me from the morning to the morning the next day, and when I fell down from the severing torture, I fell on the barbed wires, and then they dragged me from my feet and I was wounded, and they punched me on my stomach".