After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email Memo discussing the shooting death, and subsequent release of the body of Ali Jodek Shakur, an Iraqi national, who was shot by Coalition Forces on September 21 2005, when he ran into a traffic ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Ali Jodek Shakur
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Detainee Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi, a 62-year-old Iraqi detainee, who was serving an 18 month prison term at Camp Remembrance, Iraq. Mr. Al Lohaybi was ...
May 06, 2011
Investigative File, Medical (Autopsy)
Monder Mahmoud Abdulkader Al Lohaybi
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Allah Al-Samarai, a 42-year-old Iraqi detainee. Mr. Al-Samari had been treated intermittently several times throughout his internment for leukemia. Mr. Al-Samarai's ...
May 06, 2011
Investigative File, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Allah Aldin Munai Al-Samarai
This is the Death Certificate & Hospital Records for Saddam Muhammad Harag a detainee that died in a mortar attack at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Harag was injured when the CamP was ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Saddam Muhammad Harag
Physical assault
This is the Death Certificate and hospital Records for Hamid Obain Muhammad, a detainee that was killed in a mortar blast at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on June 9, 2007. Mr. Muhammad was injured in a mortar ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hamid Obain Muhammad
Physical assault
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing a request for a copy of the Death Certificate of a detainee, ISN#: 329938, who died at Camp Bucca, Iraq on July 23, 2009. The request was approved.
This is the Death Certificate & Medical Records of Muhammad Abd Frayh, a 44-year-old Iraqi detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, on Iraq, July 23, 2009. Cause of Death: Unknown; Manner of Death: Unknown
May 06, 2011
Investigative File, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Muhammad Abd Frayh
This is the Death Certificate & Hospital Records for Abdul Abdul Hameed a detainee who died of a mortar blast at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. on June 9, 2007 It is reported that a mortar attack on the camp ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abdul Abdul Hameed
Physical assault
This file contains documents relating to the death of Ibrahim Muhsin Khamas, a 28-year-old Iraqi detainee who was killed by a mortar blast at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca on on June 9, 2007. Mr. Khamas was injured in a mortar ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Ibrahim Muhsin Khamas
Physical assault
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death Ali Jidek A. Shakur, a 66-year-old Iraqi detainee, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds during his capture on September 21, 2005. he was treated at several collation ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Notes, Medical (Autopsy)
Ali Jidek A. Shakur
Physical assault
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email Memo discussing the death of detainee Hamed Ali Mohaimed, a.k.a. Hamed Ali Mohamed, a detainee of the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib prison. Mr. Mohaimed reported to ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Autopsy)
Hamed Ali Mohaimed
This is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo regarding the death of Raad Kairy Hammid. Mr. Hammid was a 27-year-old Iraqi, captured by collation forces on November 20, 2005. Mr. Hammid became ill while incarcerated at the Baghdad Central ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Autopsy)
Raad Kairy Hammid
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi, a 67-year-old Iraqi. Mr. Al-Zubaydi was the former President and Director of the President's Office & Deputy Prime under the regime of Saddam ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Autopsy)
Muhammed Hamza Al-Zubaydi
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email Memo discussing the death of Hassan Hardan Rakad, a 66-year-old Iraqi detainee. Mr. Rakad, a 66-year-old Iraqi detainee, was taken in to custody on October 4, 2005, and held at Abu Ghraib ...
May 06, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Hassan Hardan Rakad
This DOD Letter issued by Task Force 134 Multi-National Force, Baghdad, Iraq, signed by General Jack Gardner, grants permission for Strategic Counter Intelligence Directorate (SCID) personnel to conduct interviews on three (3) detainees at Abu ...
May 06, 2011
Letter
John D. Gardner
Dea Shakir Al-Janabe, Ahmed Muhy Diab, Abu-Al-Hassan
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Khan Achmed, a detainee who died from TB, pneumonia and kidney failure at Bagram Detention Facility, Afghanistan. Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Thomas W. O'Connell
Douglas J. Feith
Douglas J. Feith, Thomas W. O'Connell
Khan Achmed
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Abdul Abdul Hameed
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo/Chart/Log discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Physical (non-death))
Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo from the Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to top DOD Department heads outlining procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in the custody of the Armed Forces. The memo states ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Email
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) chart notating the death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni national. Mr. Saleh may have caused himself the harm that took his life. It also contains a chart of CENTCOM ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Mohammed A. Abdullah Saleh
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) email with the schedule and check list for the handling of deceased Muslim Guantanamo detainees, including the Muslim ritual body preparation; how detainee remains were signed over to a Yemeni ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Chart/List, Email
Richard Kirk, Leroy D. Smalls, Norman Morrisette, Lon Oliver, Randel Newton, Gregory Hager
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the apparent suicide of three (3) Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2006. The detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed apparently took ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo, Photograph
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Ali Abdullah Ahmed
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Abdulla Fawzzi, a 54-year-old Iraqi detainee. It is reported that Mr. Fawzzi who was admitted to the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) for treatment of gunshot wounds to the lower extremities. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death))
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for Muhammed Ali Ali, a 26-year-old Iraqi detainee who died after he "was reportedly shot during a raid by U.S. forces." This autopsy report corresponds to the CID investigation titled "CID Report (Death): ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Ali Ali
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi, a 19 y/o Iraqi national in custody at Camp Cropper, Iraq. After Mr. Al-Janabi was taken in to custody he was medically examined and given a diagnosis of Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Rasul Said Anad Al-Janabi
This is a CID investigation into the death of an unknown Iraqi male, shot by US forces on April 4, 2005. It is reported that the gentleman shot at Coalition Forces, who then returned fire, striking him once in the right flank. This file is the ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, 115 Field Hospital, Abu Ghraib Prision, Iraq, April 4, 2005
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for Emad Jaseem, an Iraqi national detainee who died following a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does not indicate how Mr. Jaseem ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Emad Jaseem
Physical assault
This is an autopsy report for an unknown Iraqi detainee who died while being treated for injuries sustained during a violent encounter with coalition forces at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. This report does ...
Mar. 18, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault
CIA Routing Slip re: Memo from Gregory L. Schulte, of the National Security Counsel, regarding the agenda and discussion paper for the December 16, 2004 Principles Committee Meeting on Detainees. The meeting will be held 10:30-11:30 in the White ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Gregory L. Schulte
This is a letter from the Acting CIA Assistant Inspector General for Investigations to a doctor for potentially retaining them as a medical expert in the upcoming trial of David Anthony Passaro. Mr. Passaro was a CIA contractor charged with four ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Letter
David Anthony Passaro, David A. Passaro
This is a CIA Routing Slip for the distribution of a October 25, 2005 letter from Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member SASC, requesting a copy of the Inspector General report on its investigation of CIA personnel involvement in abuse of ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carl Levin
This is a letter from CIA Assistant Inspector General for Investigations (name redacted) to Assistant U.S. Attorney James Candelmo, Eastern District of North Carolina, dated November 4, 2004. The letter is a response to AUSA Candelmo's request ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Letter
David Anthony Passaro, James A. Candelmo
This is a CIA Routing Slip with a fifteen (15) page memorandum attached. The Memo is fully redacted. The memo is from Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, "regarding [redacted] Letters on Detainees". There ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Condoleeza Rice
This document is a terrorist biographical/ psychological information questionnaire. It features questions on background, motivation, and perceptions of various terrorist groups, individuals, and actions.
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Iraqi detainee, Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
TThis is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement)
Adnan Eid Abbass
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Eid Abbass
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of Muhammed Numan Nahar, a 71 year old Iraqi national who died at Camp Al Qaim on October 2, 2004. Mr. Nahar was captured near the Syrian Boarder and taken to Camp Al Qaim for detention and ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph
Muhammed Numan Nahar
This is a NCIS investigation into the death of Ahmad Khalaf Adbal, a Syrian national who died during interrogation at Camp Al Asad Regional Detention Facility (RDF), on January 3, 2007. It is reported that Mr. Abdal was being questioned for ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph
Ahmad Khalaf Abdal
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Adnan Eid Abbass, an Iraqi national who died in the custody of USMC while being transported to the Detention Facility at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Korean Village, Iraq. Mr. Abbass was one of ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Adnan Eid Abbass