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THE TORTURE PAPERS: THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB |
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DATE: 28 JAN 04 FROM: SAC, ABU GRHUYEB PRISON COMPLEX (CID) TO: DIRECTOR, USACRC, USACIDC, FORT
BELVOIR, VA SUBJECT: CID REPORT - 7TH STATUS/SSI -
0003-04-C:D: DRAFTER: PIERON, TYLER M. UNCLASSIFIED - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY SWORN STATEMENTS File Number: 0013-04-CID609- I, NEIL A. WALLIN, WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH: I was assigned as a medic at the Abu Ghruyeb, Prison, in Baghdad, Iraq from Aug 03 to Dec 03. During that time I observed a couple incidents that occurred in the Hard Cell area of Camp Vigilant, Iraq. Camp Vigilant was one of four areas within the prison and it contained the Hard Cell area where priority prisoners where detained. Also the Hard Cells were used to house any person(s) who were considered to be high risk, either to themselves or others. Cell 1A was used to house high priority detainee's and cell 1B was used to house the high risk or trouble making detainee's. During my tour at the prison I observed that when the male detainee's were first brought to the facility, some of them were made to wear female underwear, which I think was to somehow break them down. This practiced was not continued after their integration to the prison. Sometime in Oct 03, I was asked to to evaluate a detainee we called "one of the three stooges" or "one of the three wise men". I do not know his real name. This detainee, who was in cell 1A, had a 2 1/2 inch laceration on his chin, which ran along his jaw bone and required about 13 stitches. At the time I evaluated the detainee, I observed blood on the wall near a metal weld, which I believed to be the place where the detainee received his injury. I do not know how he was injured of if it was done by himself or another. Later during my tour I also observed SGT [delete] slap the face of a detainee we called "Jihad Jerry" or "Gus". I believe his name was H [delete]. This detainee, who was in cell 1B, had taken several swings at SGT [delete] and was often times placed in restraints. This detainee was being evaluated because he refused to eat or drink and had to sustained by intravenous means. I do not think that SGT [delete] struck the detainee out of anger but rather to show the detainee that his assaults upon the corrections personal would not be allowed to go unpunished. Also this detainee had made verbal threats on several occasions that he would kill members of the prison staff. There was also another incident where I observed a video tape of a detainee we called "Shitboy". This detainee was known for inserting various objects into his rectum. This detainee was also known for consuming and throwing his feces and urine. The video tape contained a segment where this detainee was seen in four point restraints chained to a door. The detainee was seen banging his head against the wall, about five or six times, very hard. Q: SA JONES A: SGT WALLIN Q: Do you know of any other instances where detainee's have been assaulted, abused or degraded? A: No. Q: Have you observed or have heard anything pertaining to the abuse or degradation of any of the detainee's? A: No. Q: Do you have anything to add to this statement? A: No. ///End of Statement/// SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Irag LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: SMITH, Michael Joseph ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 320 MP__, deployed with duty at Abu Ghraib, Iraq DATE: 27 Jan 04 TIME: 1717 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: SGT I, Michael S. Smith want to make the following statement under oath: Q. Explain the incident with your dog when SSG ASHTON asked you to be present? A. We were in one of the tiers at the hard site that was not being used. for controlled aggression training, when SSG ASHTON approached me about using my dog for an interview. It just so happened that I saw COL PAPPAS in the parking lot right after he asked about using my dog for the interview and he had stated that it was allowed. So myself and SGT CARDONA took our dogs over to the interrogation house they have. SSG KLESOWITCH briefed me on how he wanted the dog used. He wanted me to have the dog go and bark by the door, so I told him I would conduct a building search and the dog would sniff the door and sense there was someone there and then the dog would start barking. So at that point I took my dog over to the room where the detainee was and he did sniff under door and started barking. I took my dog out of the area. A little while later they came back to us and asked this time for us to bring both dogs over to the site of the interrogation. They explained the detainee would he sitting the door and the door open. We had both of our dogs at a 45-degree to him and they proceeded to bark. Prior to us bringing the dogs over to the room this time they said that we could not take the dogs into the room without a muzzle. When we got to the room the detainee was sitting in the doorway, with his feet in the doorway and the door was open. My dog and SGT CARDONA's dog were both barking at the detainee and we never got closer then 18 inches. Neither dog had a muzzle on. Q. Did you ever see a written permission slip that a dog could be used for this interview? A. No. Q. Did you know at this time that a written memo was needed to use the dogs? A. I did not know you needed a memo, COL PAPPAS had not told me anything about a memo when I had talked with him. Q. Did it appear the detainee was afraid of the dogs? A. I could not tell, because all of my concentration was on controlling my dog, Q. Was your dog barking and growling at the detainee? A. Yes. Q. Did anyone ever ask you to muzzle your dog? A. No. Q. Were there any other events when you used your dog during an interview of a detainee? A. Yes. Q. Explain that incident? A. SGT CARDONA and I were at the hard site doing patrol. SSG FREDERICK asked us if we could come by with the dogs because they SSG FREDERICK wanted to question a detainee about a window. We waited out side while they pulled the detainee outside into the hallway. Someone said OK, bring them in, when went in. I was the first one in, the detainee was lying down flat on the floor and he was nude. As I entered the room the detainee rose to his feet, took a 90-degree turn and went against the wall. I took a 45 degree angle on the inside of the building and SGT CARDONA was at the other 45 angle with an exit, CPL GRANER was directly in front of him, telling him to get down, get down. The man went to his knees for a couple of seconds and then Got up and went at CPL GRANER. The prisoner kicked GRANER one time in the chin. I peeled my dog off and CARDONA peeled his dog off at first. Since the prisoner was attacking an MP, he allowed his dog to go in and bite the detainee. CARDONA then called his dog off the detainee and pulled the dog back. GRANER then told the man again to get down, and the prisoner continues to be combative and went back at GRANER. CARDONA let his dog go again on the detainee and the dog bit the detainee again. CARDONA called the dog off and by that point there.was 5 to 6 MP's who took the prisoner to the floor and cuffed him. Q. Was the detainee combative when you first walked into the area? A. Not when he was lying on the ground. Once he saw the dogs he was not combative he was just not listening. Q. Do you know if the detainee understood English? A. No. Q. Did the detainee show any emotion that you can recall? A. He showed fear. Q. Was the detainee crying? A. I do not recall. Q. Why do you think the detainee charged at GRANER? A. I have no idea. Q. Do you recall how many MP's were present when you first got there? A. No Q. Were you present when they gave the detainee medical attention? A. Yes. Q. Do you know who stitched up his wounds? A. No. Q. Do you know if anyone took any pictures during this event? A Yes. Q. Who took the pictures? A. I do not know. but I have seen the pictures. SGT CARDONA needed the pictures for his documentation. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No.///End of Statement/// MJS AFFIDAVIT I, Michael J. Smith HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATHS, THIS 27TH DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHARIB PRISON, IRAQ Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Iraq, APO AE 09335 LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: STEFANOWICZ, Steven Anthony ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: CACI, Abu Ghraib Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, APO AE 09335 DATE: 27 Jan 04 TIME: 1204 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: CIV I, Steven A. STEFANOWICZ, want to make the following Statement under oath: Incident with hearing unusual sounds coming from the Segregation Hole in isolation wing alpha, around or about 20 DEC 03. After the conclusion of an interrogation that included SGT Mike Eckroth, Steve Stefanowicz and John Israel (terp) in the stairwell of Segragation. The detainee was returned into MP custody of SGT Cathcart and SSG Elloit. After the detainee was received by the two MP's, the interrogation team walked ahead of the MP's and detainee. The detainee was being placed into the Segregation Hole according to the approved interrogation plan and the sound of the detainee falling or possibly being struck was heard. The interrogation team looked back and the MP's were coming out of the facility and closed the door. Both SGT Eckroth and I looked at each other and asked what was the sound as we walked up the steps to the MP office area. Both of us (SGT Eckroth and Steve Stefanowicz) felt very uncomfortable with what we had heard and when the two MP's returned to the MP office area located on the second deck, in between section alpha and bravo, we confronted the MP's. The reaction of SGT Cathcart was that he was agitated with the comment or suggestion. SGT Cathcart did reply to our questioning, but I can't recall the exact words of his statement, other than he was not happy. Explanation of an approved interrogation plan. When an interrogation plan outside the approved Interrogation Rules of Engagement (IROE) is requested by an interrogator, the plan must be reviewed and approved by Col Tom Papus and the Jag Officer. However, in some circumstance, this approval must go up to the office of General Sanchez for direct approval. In response to questions by the investigator and the special treatment of a detainee. The following is a description of the process of an ongoing interrogation. A detainee that I am actively interrogating was placed on an approved Sleep Meal Management Program. This program, has very specific and detailed rules required for implementation. In terms of what I have used recently over a 25 day period of time to interrogate the detainee. In this case, the detainee is provided with 4 hours of sleep per 24 hour period. The configuration of this sleep//wake program can be divided in any configuration and need, to be written out in detail for each day and approved through the appropriate chain of command, OIC, COL Papus and Jag. In this example, the final approving authority was COL Tom Papus. To elaborate on a typical 72 hour program recently used, the sleep/meal management portion cannot continue more that 72 consecutive hours. At which point, a 12 hour uninterrupted sleep session is mandatory before the program can continue. During a typical SMMS program, the MP's are responsible for administering the written program provided by the interrogator. A copy of the detailed, written program that they receive and keep on record in the office, during the duration of the session. In all cases, the NCO managing the alpha wing or responsible for the section are verbally briefed about the program, the details of the program, the detainee and intelligence value of the detainee (background). In addition, the MP's are advised that during the awake time period of an approved SMMS program, the MP's are allowed to do what is necessary to keep the detainee awake in the allotted period of time as long it adheres to approved rules of engagement and proper treatment of the detainee. For example, this current detainee does not like to conform to proper grooming standards. So, I've referred to the MP's to give the detainee his special treatment. This is to include, showering of the detainee (not excessively) daily if necessary, having the detainee brush his teeth and the maintaining of short hair and no facial hair. Hence, the MP's are not directed when and how this is to be administered, but that it can be used to keep the detainee awake when the detainee is more prone to sleep. Q. Have you ever had an incident where one of your detainees was bruised or complained of being assaulted by any of the guards? A. No. Q. Have you ever verbally requested one of the guards to assault one of your detainees? A. No. Q Have you seen or heard any other type of suspicious incidents that would indicate abuse of the prisoners besides what you have listed in the above statement? A. No Q. Do you know of any types of pictures that show abuse of detainees? A. No. Q, Do you have anything else to add to this statement concerning the matters under Investigation'? A. No. ///////////////////////////////////////////////End of Statement////////////////////////////////////////////////// SAS AFFIDAVIT I, Steven A. STEFANOWICZ, HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATHS, THIS 22nd DAY OF JANUARY, 2004 AT ABU GHRAIB, IRAQ, APO Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT AUTHORITY: Title 10 USC Section
301: Title 5 USC Section 2951; E.O. 9397 dated November 22, 1943 (SSN). LOCATION: Abu Ghraib Prison, Abu Ghraib, Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: SPENCER, LUCIANA NMN ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 66TH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE GROUP, WURZBURG, GM APO AE 09244 (DEPLOYED TO ABU GHRAIB PRISON) DATE: 2004/01/21 TIME: 1149 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: SPC I. LUCIANA SPENCER , WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH: When I began working the night shift I discussed with the MP's what their SOP was for detainee treatment. They informed me that they had no SOP. I informed them of my IROE and made clear to them what I was and wasn't allowed to do or see. I made clear to them that their prison was their prison and they can handle buisness how they see fit, however i follow different rules and i asked them to respect the fact that i have to follow those rules. I am good friends with the MP's that work at this detention facility and they trust me. I also am very specific with those MP's as to what level of knowledge i want to have concerning this detention facility. I didn't see any acts of torture or mistreatment. The MP's did prepare prisoners prior to interrogations by haveing them do physical exercises and yelling at them. The interrogators would verbally discuss, with a MP, a detainee and his cooperativeness and various methods to deal with a detainee such as physical exercise at random hours of the night and yelling. I was aware that some MP's were taking pictures of detainees and had them on their computers. I have seen detainees naked. When a detainee threw his feces, the MP's had him take a cold shower then roll in the dirt outside then stand until he was dry then they showered him in cold water again. When the detainee was naked he was laughed at and yelled at. I have seen an MP slap a detainee. When a detainee was doing physical exercises as punishment then refused to continue after given a rest a MP encouraged him to continue. Q. What does IROE? A. Interrogation Rule of Engagement. Q. What shift did you work on? A. When I first got here I worked day shift for the first week. After that we moved to night shift. Q. How much time did you spend in Isolation area during the night shift? A. It depended on how many detainees we had in the isolation area. On average it would be two hours. Some nights longer depended on the interview. Q. Where did the interrogations occur? A. In the showers, stair well, or property room. Q. Was there any MP's present during the interrogations? A. No. Q. Were the detainees clothed or unclothed during the interrogations? A. During all mine they were. Q. Is removing the clothing of the detainee a MI interrogation tactic? A. I used it on one interrogation and my Team Leader did not approve of it. She thought it should have been more specified. Statements were taken and it was brought up to CPT WOODS and LTC JORDAN. Q. What was the outcome of? A. I was moved out of the Tiger Team and placed in Operations. Q. What is a Tiger Team? A. It is an interrogator and an analysist. Q. Who were the MP's that worked on the night shift? A. SSG FREDERICK, SGT GRANER and AMBUHL. These are the ones that I saw mostly working. Q. Who was the MP that struck the detainee? A. GRANER. Q. Who else was present when this occurred? A. Two other detainees, CPT BRlNSON might have been there, I can not remember who else was there. I am really unsure if CPT BRINSON was even there. Q. How many times did GRANER strike the detainee? A. Just once with a open hand. Q. Who was the detainee? A. He had a beard and dark hair. I did not know his name or NDRS #. Q. Did you see GRANER strike, push to the floor, punch, kick or slap any other detainee? A. No. Q. Did you see GRANER posing detainees in sexual positions at any time? A. No. Q. Did you see GRANER engaged in sexual intercourse with detainees in the isolation area? A. No. Q. Did you see GRANER engaged in sexual intercourse with anyone else in the isolation area? A. No. Q. Was there anyone in the isolation area that was not authorized? A. No. Q. What time did you shift start in the isolation area? A. It started about 2200 to 0800. Q. Were pictures taken of the detainees in the isolation area? A. Yes. I believe so. I never saw anyone, but there were cameras in the area. I know they look pictures of me in the area. Q. Did you ever see FREDERlCK strike, kick, punch, push to the floor, and/or slap detainees? A. No. Q. Were you present at any time when detainees were beaten? A. Other than the one slap, No. Q. Did you punch, slap, kick, push to the floor, and/or jump on detainees? A. No. Q. Did you see anyone else punch, slap, kick, push to the floor, and/or jump on detainees? A. Just the slap and then they are transporting detainees. Q. What was the uniform for your team in the isolation area? A. We would were DCU's without nametags. Q. Did you observe pictures of the detainees in sexual positions? A. I saw a screen saver for a computer that was up in the isolation area. The screen save had detainees naked in a pyramid. Q. Do you know who took the picture? A. No. Q. Do you know whose computer it was? A. No. Q. Do you know who the detainees were? A. No. All you saw was Asses. Q. Did you see other soldiers who were not MP's in the isolation area after hours? A. Just other MI soldiers. Q. Were you involved in any abuse of the detainees? A. No. Q. Were you present for any of the abuse against the detainee? A. Only the slap. Q Did you report it to anyone? A. No. Q. Why did you not report it? A. I did not think it was abusive. Q. Do you recall when it occurred? A. That was after I was working in operations, some time in Dec 03, before CPT BRISNSON left. I know it was on a Sunday as I watched football after I left. I think it was a Carolina game against possibly Green Bay. Q. Did anyone else show you photos of the detainees in the hard site? A. No. Q. Has anyone discussed this case with you other than this office? A. Yes, I was talking to SSG FREDERICK and he told me there was an investigation into detainee abuse. Q. Do you wish to add anything else to your statement? A. No.//END OF STATEMENT/// Initials LS. STATEMENT OF LUCIANA SPENCER TAKEN AT ABU GHRAIB DATED 21 JAN 04 AFFIDAVIT I, Luciana Spender, HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 4. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATHS, THIS 21 DAY OF JAN, 2004 AT ABU GHRAIB PRISON, ABU GHRAIB Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT File Number: 0003-04-CID149-83130 I Samuel Jefferson PROVANCE, WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH: Around the middle to the end of October I was talking to a female from the Nevada National Guard MP unit that was stationed here. She was very skinny, she was white, but very tanned, she had black and gray hair, and she was old. I don't remember her rank, but she was made the unit armorer during this time. She told me that they were the first unit here, and they were the ones who started setting this place up. She was the oldest female among that unit. She was telling me about writing these journals that talked about all of her experiences here in Iraq and the wrondoings she witnessed (and their cover up). In those journals she said there were killings, torture, you name it she said it. She was referring to all of the things that had been done here. She told me that the commander and the first sergeant hated her because she would voice opposition to them about the treatment of the people. She also told me that she mailed the journals home (to a friend or to herself) before they could be found so that the commander could not take them from her. In late October SPC SCHLEGEL said that the MP's told her that these two detainees had raped a 14-year-old boy, so the MP's were handcuffing the detainees in contorted positions to each other and making it look like the two detainees were having sex with each other. I SPC SCHLEGEL told me that the detainees may have been naked at the time. She also said that the MP's made the detainees in isolation take their clothes off and wear women's underwear. Around the end of October I was just discussing with SPC Hannah SCHLEGEL about how there were some bad things going on, as far as the prisoners are getting treated. She said yeah and she told me about a detainee who had gotten his eye busted open. SPC SCHLEGEL said that she asked the MP how his eye got busted, and the MP replied that he fell down. When I returned from leave in the middle of December I was eating at the chow hall at Camp Victory, when I overheard SPC [delete] and three other people talking about what's going on at Abu Gharib. He was telling them about the things that the MP's were doing to the detainees. He said that he was invited to join in on these things, so he did. The MP's were using the detainees as practice dummies, like they would show each other how to knock someone out by knocking the detainee out. They did this while another detainee would watch, when the other detainee would start to get scared, the MP's would calm him down, and then hit him in some other way. He was also saying that the MP's were telling him how to hit the detainees so that you didn't leave a mark, and telling him what instruments to use so that they didn't leave marks. I came back from leave in the beginning of December I was talking to SPC [delete] and she was telling me how the guards would bring the dogs down to the cells and use them to scare the detainees. She told me that she thought it was funny because after they would take the dogs away, one MP would bark like a dog, and they would all watch as the detainees would run from him because they thought there was a dog in the room. When the people from my unit came up here to fill slots and act as guards, they were taken on a tour of the isolation area, when they were down there the MP's would tell them that they could do whatever they wanted to the detainees. I was told that all they ended up doing is yelling at the detainees and make them do PT. SGT BROWN told me that he was worried about his soldiers being exposed to that kind of behavior, and being encouraged to do so. SPC DELGADO, SPC HEIDENRICH, SPC GRIFFIN, SPC PAZDERSKI, SPC CAUDILL, and SPC KERSEY were all present for that. SPC KERSEY and SPC CAUDILL are not on the guard force; they are still doing analysis. Q: SA Ryan D. BOSTAIN. A: SGT Samuel C. PROVANCE. Q: Do you know anybody specifically who was abusing the detainees? A: Everything I know is what I've heard, all of these things take place down in isolation or in the booth. Q: Do you know if anybody has taken any unauthorized photographs? A: I know SPC [delete] had photos of the facility, but not of the detainees. I'm sure they were of sentimental value. Those photos were on the common drive, and I was told by my chain of command to delete the photos, so I did. Q: Did SPC [delete] ever tell you if she was involved with the abuse of the detainees? A: Just being there for the dog incident. She seemed really apathetic every time I said anything about it. She thought it was really funny to see the detainees run back into their cells from the dogs. Q: Do you have anything else you wish to add to this statement? A: Every time I said something about how I was worried about the treatment of the detainees, they would either say, thy are the enemy and if I was out there they would kill me, so they didn't care. I'm glad that something is finally being done, it's kind of shameful what's been going on. Q: Do you have anything else you wish to add to this statement? A. No. /// END OF STATEMENT /// SP AFFIDAVIT I, Samuel Jefferson PROVANCE, HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 3. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS JAN 21, 2004 AT BAGHDAD, IRAQ. Signature of Person Administering Oath TRANSLATION OF SWORN STATEMENT PROVIDED BY A [DELETE] [DELETE] W [DELETE] Detainee # 151365, 1430/21 JAN 04: '"I am the person named above. I entered Abu Ghraib prison on 10 Jul 2003, that was after they brought me from Baghdadi area. They put me in the tent area and then they brought me to Hard Site. The first day they put me in a dark room and started hitting me in the head and stomach and legs. They made me raise my hands and sit on my knees. I was like that for four hours. Then the Interrogator came and he was looking at me while they were beating me. Then I stayed in this room for 5 days, naked with no clothes. They then took me to another cell on the upper floor. On 15 Oct 2003 they replaced the Army with the Iraqi Police and after that time they started punishing me in all sorts of ways. And the first punishment was bringing me to Room #1, and they put handcuffs on my hand and they cuffed me high for 7 or 8 hours. And that caused a rupture to my right hand and I had a cut that was bleeding and had pus coming from it. They kept me this way on 24, 25 and 26 October. And in the following days, they also put a bag over my head, and of course, this whole time I was without clothes and without anything to sleep on. And one day in November, they started different type of punishment, where an American Police came in my room and put the bag over my head and cuffed my hands and he took me out of the room into the hallway. He started beating me, him, and 5 other American Police. I could see their feet, only, from under the bag. A couple of those police they were female because I heard their voices and I saw two of the police that were hitting me before they put the bag over my head. One of them was wearing glasses. I couldn't read his name because he put tape over his name. Some of the things they did was make me sit down like a dog, and they would hold the string from the bag and they made me bark like a dog and they were laughing at me. And that policeman was a tan color, because he hit my head to the wall. When he did that, the bag came off my head and one of the police was telling me to crawl in Arabic, so I crawled on my stomach and the police were spitting on me when I was crawling and hitting me on my hack, my head and my feet. It kept going on until their shift ended at 4 o'clock in the morning. The same thing would happen in the following days. And I remember also one of the police hit me on my ear, before the usual beating, cuffing, bagging, dog position and crawling until 6 people gathered. And one of them was an Iraqi translator named [delete] he is a tan color, he has a mustache. Then the police started beating me on my kidneys and then they hit me on my right ear and it started bleeding and I lost conciousness. Then the Iraqi translator picked me up and told me "You are going to sleep". The when I went into the room, I woke up again. I was unconscious for about two minutes. The policeman dragged me into the room where he washed my ear and they called the doctor. The Iraqi doctor came and told me he couldn't take me to the clinic, so he fixed me in the hallway. When I woke up, I saw 6 of the American Police. A few days before they hit me on my ear, the American police, the guy who wears glasses. he put red woman's underwear over my head. And then he tied me to the window that is in the cell with my hands behind my back until I lost consciousness. And also when I was in Room #1 they told me to lay down on my stomach and they were jumping from the bed onto my back and my legs. And the other two were spitting on me and calling me names, and they held my hands and legs. After the guy with the glasses got tired, two of the American soldiers brought me to the ground and tied my hands to the door while laying down on my stomach. One of the police was pissing on me and laughing on me. He then released my hands and I want and washed, and then the soldier came back into the room. and the soldier and his friend told me in a loud voice to lie down, so I did that. And then the policeman was opening my legs, with a bag over my head, and he sat down between my legs on his knees and I was looking at him from under the bag and they wanted to do me because I saw him and be was opening his pants, so I started screaming loudly and the other police starting hitting me with his feet on my neck and he put his feet on my head so I couldn't scream. Then they left and the guy with the glasses comes back with another person and he took me out of the room and they put me inside the dark room again and they started beating me with the broom that was there. And then they put the loudspeaker inside the room and they closed the door and he was yelling in the microphone. Then they broke the glowing finger and spread it on me until I was glowing and they were laughing. They took me to the room and they signaled me to get on to the floor. And one of the police he put a part of his stick that he always carries inside my ass and I felt it going inside me about 2 centimeters, approximately. And I started screaming, and he pulled it out and he washed it with water inside the room. And the two American girls that were there when they were beating me, they were hitting me with a ball made of sponge on my dick. And when I was tied up in my room, one of the girls, with blonde hair, she is white, she was playing with my dick. I saw inside this facility a lot of punishment just like what they did to me and more. And they were taking pictures of me during all these instances." TRANSLATED BY: Mr. Johnson ISHO VERIFIED BY: Mr. Abdelilah ALAZADI SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: NELSON, Torin, Steed ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: DATE: 21 Jan 04 TIME: 11:44 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: Contractor I, Torin S. Nelson want to make the following statement under oath: As far as some of the things we talked about yesterday. The people I suggest you look at is [delete] J [delete], [delete] D [delete], these two gentlemen, I have looked at their files. I sat next to an interrogation that J [delete] was doing one day, where he was breaking a tables and chairs in the room with the detainee. MR D [delete] has a reputation for breaking the tables in the room. Look into file 15521 K [delete] [delete] A [delete]. He is my detainee now. One of the first times I interviewed him at the beginning of Jan 04, he showed me a large bruise to his left forearm that was about six to eight inches long, and he stated he got it from being grabbed and being thrown around. He had a bump on his forehead over his left eye that he related he received that from being thrown into a wall. He said that the interrogator grabbed him and threw him down. He is evasive and deceptive, but when he is talking about how people have treated him, I tend to believe it based on the stuff that I have heard and seen. Evidently the people who talking to him before I was working him were very hard on him. [Delete] J [delete] was the person working him before. M [delete] M [delete] I think his number is 155800. I would look at the interrogation on 12 Jan 04, of this detainee, and talk to the interpreter of that helped interview him. He should be able to give you more information. I am working his brother at the time. His story is very forth coming and very cooperative. Talk to SPC SCHLAGEL was working another detainee who is the brother of my detainee; this person related to SPC SCHALGELS detainee, I think the number is 155794, as well about this incident. Pull up the fill on this detainee M [delete]. After the first interview, [delete] J [delete] says to put this guy in isolation because he is not being forthright in his information. [Delete] J is a young interrogator, he is very excited and motivated, and he believes everyone here should be broken. Ali Darwiche, and interpreter he might have info. Simon has seen a lot of stuff that goes on. Simon is an interpreter with Titan as well. He has stated that he has witnessed some of the interrogators being ruff. I do not know if it was abuse. There is another incident SPC LUCIANA SPENCER was involved in where one of her detainees, she wanted to degrade him; she stripped him naked and made him walk back. She was moved into Bn Ops, and taken out of the interrogation role. LTC JORDAN would know more about that. I would really look at the files tor the detainees of D [delete] and J [delete]. A [delete] was the detainee that was allegedly taken and thrown out of the vehicle handcuffed. I believe the incident was witness by Ali Darwiche. He is on leave in the states and is getting married. You would have to go through Titan to get his info. A [delete] was sitting in the vehicle sandbagged, the interrogator who I think might have been D [delete] or J [delete], grabbed him and threw him out of the vehicle to the ground, the interrogator then yells at him for falling on the ground, and then started dragging or pulling the detainee by the cuffs. This information came from Ali Darwiche. We were doing an interview and he provided this information out side of what he was interpreting. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No. /// End of Statement /// TSN AFFIDAVIT I, Torin S. Nelson HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 21st DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHARIB PRISON, IRAQ. Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Rusafa II Prison Compound, Baghdad LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: A [delete] H [delete] [delete] [delete] [delete] ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: Rusafa II Prison Compound, Baghdad, Iraq DATE: 20 Jan 04 TIME: 1520 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: ISN #13077 FILE NUMBER: 0003-04-CID149-83130 GRADE/STATUS: CIV/DETAINEE I, H [delete] [delete] [delete] [delete] A [delete] want to make the following statement under oath: When first I went to the hard site, the Americans soldiers took me, there were two soldiers, a translator named Abu Hamed. We stood in the hallway before the hard site and they started taking off our clothes one after another. After they took off my clothes the American soldier removed who was wearing glasses, night guard, and I saw an American female soldier which they call her Ms. Maya, in front of me they told me to stroke my penis in front of her. And then they covered my head again, and as I was doing whatever they asked me to do, they removed the bag off my head, and I saw my friend, he was the one in front of me on the floor. And then they told me to sit on the floor facing the wall. They brought another prisoner on my back and he was also naked. Then they ordered me to bend onto my knees and hands on the ground. And then they placed three others on our backs, naked. And after that they order me to sleep on my stomach and they ordered the other guy to sleep on top of me in the same position and the same way to all of us. And there were six of us. They were laughing, taking pictures, and they were stepping on our hands with their feet. And they started taking one after another and they wrote on our bodies in English. I don't know what they wrote, but they were taking pictures after that. Then, after that they forced us to walk like dogs on our hands and knees. And we had to bark like a dog and if we didn't do that, they start hitting us hard on our face and chest with no mercy. After that, they took us to our cells, took the mattresses out and dropped water on the floor and they made us sleep on our stomachs on the floor with the bags on our head and they took pictures of everything. Mr. Joyner shows up in the morning and give us our mattresses, blankets and food, but the second guy who wears the glasses was the opposite; he takes the mattresses, tie out hands, hit us and don't give us food. All that lasted for 10 days and the translator Abu Hamed was there. I only saw him when I arrived, but after that I knew he was there because I heard his voice during all of that. /// End of Statement //// Translated By: Prisoner Interview/Interrogation Team
(PIT) (CID) (FWD) Verified By: AFFIDAVIT I, H [delete] [delete] [delete] [delete] A [delete] HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 20 DAY OF JANUARY, 2003 AT RUSAFA II PRISON COMPOUND, BAGHDAD, IZ APO AE 09336 Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghurayb CID LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: LANGIANESE, SETH A. ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 323 MI, JIDC, AG DATE: 20 Jan TIME: 0945 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: E-4/SPC/Active Duty I, SETH ANTHONY LANGIANESE want to make the following statement under oath: I was at the internet cafe, it was in December or January I am not sure when I was with SPC Porter and we were just checking our Emails, ect. When Porter started looking at Pictures an MP had down loaded from her camera, some were of the detainees on there knees -- it looked like Ganci Prisoners she had taken some from the sky above AG and she had some pics of her by a water buffalo ... I cannot remember what computer they were downloaded on and I am positive they won't still be there. The pictures were of the prisoners (looked like a whole camp) of the prisoners on their knees, hands behind there heads -- possibly why their camp was bein searched -- possibly 2-3 pics. Q. Describe the MP you saw? A. A female, by a water buffalo -- thats about all I remember. Q. Do you know who this MP female is? A. No, an MP. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No. /// END OF STATEMENT /// SAL AFFIDAVIT I, SETH ANTHONY LANGIANESE HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 20 DAY OF JAN, 2004 AT Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: Porter, Canyon Elijah ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: JIDC, deployed with duty at Abu Ghraib, Iraq. DATE: 20 Jan 04 TIME: 1025 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: E-4 I, SPC Canyon Porter want to make the following statement under oath: At some point in the last two weeks to a month, I witnessed some pictures of detainees being stored on a computer at the internet cafe. At 1100 I left the FAC at the JIDC building to take my lunch/internet break. As usual, I stop by the internet cafe to check my email and on this occasion I also sent some pictures from my digital camera. I went to the folder I thought my pictures were stored in and came across 5-10 pictures that weren't mine, but I recognized as photos were of detainees, some praying. At the time I didn't think to check the clarity of the pictures, and I'm unsure if the detainees could be identified. Two of the pictures were of a female soldier, age 18-25, PFC-SPC, though I cannot recall her name. She had red hair and seemed to be of medium build. I assume that it was her photos, though they could have been taken by a friend. I am not certain that these pictures were sent via email, but that is almost always the case as there would be no other reason to save them on a computer. I sent of my emails and then went to lunch with a couple friends whom I don't recall at this time. As we were sitting to eat, the soldier in the pictures stood up at the table in front of me. As she put her gear on, I recognized her as the female from the pictures and pointed her out to my friends. I have not seen her since, but I would recognize her or her name if I did. At the time I thought it was incredibly stupid to do what she had done, but did not consider it terribly wrong as the photos did not appear to be demeaning. This is the first time I have brought this matter to anyone's attention, with the exception of my friends that day. end of statement CP AFFIDAVIT I, SPC Canyon E. Porter HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 20th DAY OF JAN, 2004 AT Signature of Person Administering Oath Statements on 19 Jan 2004 SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: KENNER, Jason A. ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 372nd MP Co, Cumberland, MD, deployed with duty at Abu Ghraib, Iraq DATE: 19 Jan 04 TIME: 1108 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: SPC, Ad Res. I, Jason A. Kenner want to make the following statement under oath: Q. Have you ever been present when any detainees were abused? A I saw them nude, but MI would tell us to take away their mattress, sheets, and clothes. Q. Who at MI instructed you to do this? A. I do not really remember their names. I told them if they wanted me to do that they needed to give me paperwork. A few times prior to requiring paperwork I did take away mattresses and sheets. Q. Is paperwork required in order to take away clothes, mattresses and sheets? A. Before I left on leave it had started to be required. Q. Did you ever take any thing away from a detainee that MI told you to without paperwork? A. A few times before the paperwork stuff started. I don't believe anyone told me specifically that I could not do that; it is I just know not to do that. At one point we were informed that we could not do anything to embarrass the prisoners. As it was explained to me, if it would embarrass me, do not do it. Q. What shift do you work on? A. Day shift. Q. Would you ever come to work and find prisoners that were handcuffed, nude, or both? A. Yes. Q. Would you give them their clothes back? A. It would depend on if I were briefed if I could give them the clothes back. Q. Did you ever work on the same tier as CPL GARNER and SSG FREDERICK? A. A few times I did relieve GARNER, and a few times when I was a runner, SSG FREDERJCK would be in the office at the same time. Q. Did you ever find that GRANER had taken something from a prisoner he should not have? A. No. Q. Have you ever seen any pictures that were taken of detainees? A. No. Q. Is there any events at the prison you feel CID should know about? A. No. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A No. /// End of Statement /// JAK AFFIDAVIT I, Jason A. KENNER HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 19th DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHARIB PRISON, IRAQ Signature of Person Administering Oath Statements on 18 Jan 2004 SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: NAKHLA, Adel L. ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: Titan Corporation, Abu Ghraib Correctional Facilityi, Abu Ghraib, Iraq 99335 DATE: 18 Jan 04 TIME: 1510 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: CIV I, Adel Nakhla want to make the following statement under oath: Q, Are you making this statement on your own free will? A. Yes. Q. Have you been advised that you do not have to answer or questions or say anything? A. Yes. Q. Are you able to leave at this time if you decide to terminate this interview? A. Yes. Q. Has anyone threatened you in anyway? A. No. Q. Are you currently taking any medications that would impede your ability to answer these questions? A. No. Q. On 14 Jan 04, when you gave CID a sworn statement, was that a truthful statement? A. I did not say the part of how I held the detainees foot that was on the floor so he would not run away. Q. Why did you hold the foot down of the detainee? A. So be would not run away and he would answer the question. I held it with my hand. Not in any powerful way. Q. Did anyone ask you to hold the foot of the detainee? A. No. Q. Did anyone force you to hold the foot of the detainee? A. No. I thought I was helping the MP's to get to the truth. Q. How many interrogations have you been a part of since arriving at Abu Ghraib? A. Maybe between 80 and 100 interviews. Q. What agencies do you assist in the interviews? A. MI and MP's, and some OGA. Q. Have many times have you seen MI, MP, or OGA interrogate three detainees at the same time, handcuffed and nude, on the floor? A. One time. Q. Are you aware of the guidelines that are allowed by MI, MP and OGA when they are interviewing a detainee? A. We were briefed on the guidelines. CPT WOOD briefed us back in November sometime. Q. Was this briefing prior to the incident mentioned above? A. After this incident. Q. Do you think that what the MPs and the MI were doing to the three detainees was a correct form of interrogation? A. No. I think they took matters into their own hands. Q. Why was it not the correct form of interrogation? A. Well first of all they wanted to interview the detainees they should have let MI talk to them. I do not think MPs are qualified here to do these interviews. Q. So you realize this was an unauthorized interrogation? A. I did not know if it was authorized or not. Q. Did any of the men the detainees in this incident speak English? A. No. Q. Were you the only translator at this incident? A. Yes, I even apologized to the detainees after this was down. I told them I thought what had happened was very degrading. Q. What specifically did you tell the detainees to do? A. Don't try to run away, stop right there, are you gay, do you like what is happening to you, are you all gays, you must like that position. These were some of the questions or things that I told them. Q. Did you realize at the time that you were saying these things to the detainees that it was wrong to tell them these things the soldiers wanted you to say? A. I do realize it was wrong at that time to say these things. Q, Why was it was wrong to say these thing to the detainees? A. Because it was degrading to them. Q. Why did you translate these things anyway? A. I thought that was what I was required to do as a translator. Q. Did you ever receive any briefing how detainees would be treated? A. No. Q. Were you ever told who you could report detainee abuse to? A. No. The only thing that is logical is to report it to your boss or to this unit. Q. Do you feel what you said to these detainees was wrong? A. Yes. Q. Did you ever translate for GRANER or FREDERICK on any other occasion when they abused the detainees? A. Just when they would shake them. Nothing that was significant. Q. Have you ever hit or assaulted any detainee? A. I just held his foot. and I shook them by grabbing their clothes. AFFIDAVIT I, Adel L. NAKHLA HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 3. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 18th DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHARIB PRISON, IRAQ Signature of Person Administering Oath STATEMENT OF Adel NAKHLA TAKEN AT Abu Ghraib DATED 18 Jan 04 CONTINUED: Q. Was there ever a time when you were in a cell with a detainee alone? A. 1 do not recall ever being alone in a cell with any detainee. I always have a guard present when I am in the cell. Q. Have you ever been in a cell alone and the detainee was nude? A. No not alone. Only when they were being questioned by MI or someone and I was translating. Q. Did you ever engage in sexual intercourse with a male detainee? A. No. Q. Were you ever present when photographs of detainees were taken? A. When they took the picture of the detainee that busted his chin, I was present for that. Q. Who took this picture? A. GRANER. Q. Why did GRANER take the picture? A. I do not know. Maybe to prove he was injured. Q. How did this detainee get injured? A. GRANER pushed the detainee against the wall. Q. Did you witness this act? A. No. I was upstairs at the time. Q. Who else was there? A. I think Megan AMBUHL was in the office up stairs; maybe FREDERICK or he came after. Q. Why did GRANER push this detainee into the wall? A. I do not know. GRANER did not say why he did it. Q. Who stitched the detainee's chin up? A. The medics and GRANER helped sew up the wound. Q. Did you ever witness GRANER or FREDER!CK assault any other detainees? A. To the extent of injury no, but they would shake the detainee around. Especially when they detainee was a high-ranking officer or political value. Q, Did you ever take any pictures of the detainees? A. No. Q. Do you have a personal computer here? A. No. Q. Have you ever seen any other MP's conduct interviews of the detainees? A. I have seen AMBUHL shake some of the detainees. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No. /// End of statement //// TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY H
[delete] [delete] [delete] A [delete [delete] "I was in the solitary confinement, me and my friends. We were treated badly. They took our clothes off, even the underwear and they beat us very hard, and they put a hood over my head. And when I told them I am sick they laughed at me and beat me. And one of them brought my friend and told him "stand here" and they brought me and had me kneel in front of my friend. They told my friend to masturbate and told me to masturbate also, while they were taking pictures. After that they brought my friends, H [delete] A [delete] N [delete] A [delete] H [delete] M [delete] and I, and they put us 2 on the bottom, 2 on top of them, and 2 on top of those and one on top. They took pictures of us and we were naked. After the end of the beating, they took us to our separate cells and they opened the water in the cell and told us to lay face down in the water and we stayed like that until the morning, in the water, naked, without clothes. Then one of the other shift gave us clothes, but the second shift took the clothes away at night and handcuffed us to the beds. The number or the guards was 4. Two of them male, and one of them had a chain tattoo on his arm and wearing eyeglasses. The other one had a tattoo on his back like a dragon. The female wearing eyeglasses was short and had short hair. The second female hair was yellow and she was medium height. Q: IEM A: H [delete] [delete[ delete] A [delete] Q: How did you feel when the guards were treating you this way? A: I was trying to kill myself but I didn't have any way of doing it. Q: Did the guards force you to crawl on your hands and knees on the ground? A: Yes. They forced us to do this thing. Q: What were the guards doing while you were crawling on your hands and knees? A: They were sitting on our backs like riding animals. Q: When you were on each other, what were the guards doing? A: They were taking pictures and writing on our asses. Q: How many times did the guards treat you this way? A: The first time, when I just go in, and the second day they put us in the water and handcuffed us. Q: Did you see the guards treat the other inmates this way? A: I didn't see, but I heard screams and shouts in another area." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY K
[delete] [delete] H [delete]. "In the name of God. I swear to God that everything I witnessed everything I am talking about. I am not saying this to gain any material thing, and I was not pressured to do this by any forces First, I am going to talk only about what happened to me in Abu Ghraib Jail. I will not talk about what happened when I was in jail before, because they did not ask me about that, but it was very bad. 1. They stripped me of all my clothes, even my underwear. They gave me woman's underwear, that was rose color with flowers in it and they put the bag over my face. One of them whispered in my ear. "today I am going to fuck you", and he said this in Arabic. Whoever was with me experienced the same thing. That's what the American soldiers did, and they had a translator with them, named Abu Hamid and a female soldier, who's skin was olive colored and this was on October 3 or 4, 2003 around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. When they took me to the cell, the translator Abu Hamid came with an American soldier and his rank was sergeant (I believe). And he called told me "faggot" because I was wearing the woman's underwear, and my answer was "no". Then he told me "why are you wearing this underwear", then I told them "because you make me wear it". The transfer from Camp B to the Isolation was full of beatings, but the bags were over our heads, so we couldn't see their faces. And they forced me to wear this underwear all the time, for 51 days. And most of the days I was wearing nothing else. 2. I faced more harsh punishment from Grainer. He cuffed my bands with irons behind my back to the metal of the window, to the point my feet were off the ground and I was hanging there. for about 5 hours just because I asked about the time, because I wanted to pray. And then they took all my clothes and he took the female underwear and he put it over my head. After he released me from the window, he tied me to my bed until before dawn. He took me to the shower room. After he took me to the shower room, he brought me to my room again. He prohibited me from eating food that night, even though I was fasting that day. Grainer and the other two soldiers were taking pictures of every thing they did to me. I don't know if they took a picture of me because they beat me so bad I lost consciousness after an hour or so. 3. They didn't give us food for a whole day and a night, while we were fasting for Ramadan. And the food was only one package of emergency food. Now I am talking about what I saw: 1. They brought three prisoners completely naked and they tied them together with cuffs and they stuck one to another. I saw the American soldiers hitting them with a football and they were taking pictures. I saw Grainer punching one of the prisoners right in his face very hard when he refused to take off his underwear and I heard them begging for help. And also the American soldiers told to do like homosexuals (fucking). And there was one of the American soldiers they called Sergeant (black skin) there was 7 to 8 soldiers there also. Also female soldiers were taking pictures and that was in the first day of Ramadan. And they repeated the same thing the second day of Ramadan. And they were ordering them to crawl while they were cuffed together naked. 2. I saw [delete] fucking a kid, his age would be about 15-18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn't covered and I saw [delete] [delete] who was wearing the military uniform putting his dick in the little kid's ass. I couldn't see the face of the kid because his face wasn't in front of the door. And the female soldier was taking pictures. [Delete] I think he is [delete] because of his accent, and he was not skinny or short, and he acted like a homosexual (gay). And that was in cell #23 as best as I remember. 3. In the cell that is almost under it, on the North side, and I was right across from it on the other side. They put the sheets again on the doors. Grainer and his helper they cuffed one prisoner in Room #1, named A [delete], he was Iraqi citizen. They tied him to the bed and they were inserted the phosphoric light in his ass and he was yelling for God's help. A [delete] used to get hit and punished a lot because I heard him screaming and they prohibited us from standing near the door when they do that. That was Ramadan, around 12 midnight approximately when I saw them putting the stick in his ass. The female soldier was taking pictures. 4. I saw more than once men standing on a water bucket that was upside down and they were totally naked. And carrying chairs over their heads standing under the fan of the hallway behind the wooden partition and also in the shower. Not one night for all the time I was there passed without me seeing, hearing or feeling what was happening to me. And 1am repeating the oath / I swear on Allah almighty on the truth of what I said. Allah is my witness." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY M
[delete] J [delete] Detainee "I am going to start from the first day I went into A1. They stripped me from my clothes and all the stuff that they gave me and I spent 6 days in that situation. And then they gave me a blanket only. 3 days after that, they gave me a mattress, and after a short period of time, approximately at 2 at night, the door opened and Grainer was there. He cuffed my hands behind my back and he cuffed my feet and he took me to the shower room. When they finished interrogating me, the female interrogator left. And then Grainer and another man, who looked like Grainer but doesn't have glasses, and has a thin mustache, and he was young and tall, came into the room. They threw pepper on my face and the beating started. This went on for a half hour. And then he started beating me with the chair until the chair was broken. After that they started choking me. At that time I thought I was going to die, but it's a miracle I lived. And then they started beating me again. They concentrated on beating me in my heart until they got tired from beating me. They took a little break and then they started kicking me very hard with their feet until I passed out. In the second scene at the night shift, I saw a new guard that wears glasses and has a red face. He charged his pistol and pointed it at a lot of the prisoners to threaten them with it. I saw things no one would see, they are amazing. They come in the morning shift with two prisoners and they were father and son. They were both naked. They put them in front of each other and they counted 1, 2, 3, and then removed the bags from their heads. When the son saw his father naked he was crying. He was crying because of seeing his father. And then at night, Grainer used to throw the food into the toilet and said "go take it and eat it". And I saw also in Room #5 they brought the dogs. Grainer brought the dogs and they bit him in the right and left leg. He was from Iran and they started beating him up in the main hallway of the prison." TRANSLATED BY: TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY M
[delete] [delete] M [delete] Detainee "Before Ramadan, Grainer started covering all the rooms with bed sheets. Then I heard screams coming from Room #1, at that time I was in Room #50 and it's right below me so I looked into the room. I saw A [delete] in Room #1, who was naked and Grainer was putting the phosphoric light up his ass. A [delete] was screaming for help. There was another tall white man who was with Grainer, he was helping him. There was also a white female soldier, short, she was taking pictures of A [delete]. A [delete] is now in cell #50." TRANSLATED BY: Prisoner Interview/Interrogation Team
(PIT) (CID) (FWD) VERIFIED BY: Statements on 17 Jan 2004 TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY S [delete] [delete] A [delete] Detainee # 150422. 1630/17 JAN 04: "One of those days the guards tortured the prisoners. Those guards are Grainer, Davis and another man. First they tortured the man whose name is Amjid Iraqi. They stripped him of his clothes and beat him until he passed out and they cursed him and when they took off of his head I saw blood running from his head. They took him to solitary confinement and they were beating him every night. The evening shift was sad for the prisoners. They brought three prisoners handcuffed to each other and they pushed the first one on top of the others to look like they are gay and when they refused, Grainer beat them up until they put them on top of each other and they took pictures of them. And after that they beat up an Iraqi whose name is A [delete] whom they ordered to stand on a food carton and they were pouring water on him and it was the coldest of times. When they torture him they took gloves and they beat his dick and testicles with the gloves and they handcuffed him to the cell door for half a day without food or water. After that they brought young Iraqi prisoners and Grainer tortured them by pouring water on them from the second floor until one of them started crying and screaming and started saying "my heart". They brought the doctors to treat him and they thought he was going to die. After they brought six people and they beat them up until they dropped on the floor and one of them his nose was cut and the blood was running from his nose and he was screaming but no one was responding and all this beating from Grainer and Davis and another man, whom I don't know the name. The Doctor came to stitch the nose and the Grainer asked the doctor to learn how to stitch and it's true, the guard learned how to stitch. He took the string and the needle and he sat down to finish the stitching until the operation succeeded. And then the other man came to take pictures of the injured person who was laying on the ground. And after that they beat up the rest of the group until they fall to the ground. Every time one of them fell on the ground they drag them up to stand on his feet. Grainer beat up a man whose name is A [delete] [delete] S [delete] and he was beating him until he gotten almost crazy. And he was telling him go up to the second floor as he was naked. And they opened the prisoners cells to see him running naked. And after they put him in his cell for four days they were pouring water on him and he couldn't sleep. Before that he was in cell number 4. They hanged him and he was screaming but no one helped him. There was a translator named A [delete] A [delete] the [delete] He was helping Grainer and Davis and others whom I don't know, like they were watching a live movie of three young guys being put up by A [delete] A [delete] on top of each other. And everyone was taking pictures of this whole thing with cameras. This is what I saw and what I remember to be true." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY A [delete] [delete] Y [delete, Detainee # 150425. 1445/17 JAN 04: "One day while in the prison the guard came and found a broken toothbrush, and they said that I was going to attack the American Police; I said that the toothbrush wasn't mine. They said we are taking away your clothes and mattress for 6 days and we are not going to beat you. But the next day the guard came and cuffed me to the cell door for 2 hours. after that they took me to a closed room and more than five guards poured cold water on me, and forced me to put my head in someone's urine that was already in that room. After that they beat me with a broom and stepped on my head with their feet while it was still in the urine. They pressed my ass with a broom and spit on it. Also a female soldier, whom I don't know the name was standing on my legs. They used a loudspeaker to shout at me for 3 hours. it was cold. But to tell the truth in daytime Joiner gave me my clothes and at night Grainer took them away. The truth is they gave me my clothes after 3 days. they didn't finish the 6 days and thank you." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: "Two days before Ramadan Grainer the guard came with the other guards, they brought two prisoners and they made them take off all their clothes down to naked by the two guards Grainer and Davis and then they were beating them a lot. One of the prisoners was bleeding from a cut he got over his eye. Then they called the doctor who came and fixed him. After that they stated beating him again. They removed all my clothes down to naked for seven days and they were bringing a group of people to watch me naked. They brought a prisoner with a civil case, his name is S [delete]. He was brought by Grainer the guard and Davis and there was a third guard, I don't know his name. They beat him a lot then they removed all his clothing then they put wire up his ass and they started taking pictures of him. Grainer used to hang the prisoners by hand to the doors and windows in a way that was very painful for several hours and we heard them screaming. One day Grainer and Davis brought 6 generals and they stripped them down to naked. They started torturing them and taking pictures and they were enjoying that. When the doctor came to fix the injured person, Grainer took the needle from the doctor and started stitching the cut on the injured person. A few days before Ramadan, Grainer and Davis, and another person that came with them used beat up a man named "A [delete]" who was in room number one. They were beating his very hard with a stick and Grainer was pissing on him and beating him for about a week until they injured his eye and the doctor came. Grainer and Davis, and a third man, used to beat up a prisoner who was from [delete] and strip him all night. We heard him screaming all night. Every time a new prisoner came Grainer and Davis stripped them, beat them and took pictures. I remember one prisoner named "W [delete]." Important Point: All the guards excluding Grainer and Davis are very good with the prisoners and the prisoners like them and respect them and are very happy with them. They give a good image of the United States and they prove by their good treatment the big difference between the Baath Party and the United States." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: TRANSLATION OF VERBAL STATEMENT PROVIDED BY A [delete] [delete] H [delete]. Detainee # 152529, 1605/17 JAN 04: "One the date of November 5, 2003, when the US forces transferred to Isolation, when they took me out of the car, an American soldier hit me with his hand on my face. And then they stripped me naked and they took me under the water and then he made me crawl the hallway until I was bleeding from my chest to my knees and my hands. And after that he put me back into the cell and an hour later he took me out from the cell the second time to the shower room under cold water and them he made me get up on a box, naked, and he hit me on my manhood. I don't know with what, then I fell down on the ground. He made me crawl on the ground. And then he tied my hands in my cell naked until morning time until Joyner showed up and released my hands and took me back to my room and gave me my clothes back. About two days later my interrogation came up, when it was done a white soldier wearing glasses picked me from the room I was in. He grabbed my head and hit it against the wall and then tied my hand to the bed until noon the next day and then two days later the same soldier and he took all my clothes and my mattress and he didn't give me anything so I can sleep on except my jump suit for 3 days. Then Joyner came and gave me a blanket and my clothes a second time." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: BOLINGER, Matthew Scott ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 372nd MP Co, Cumberland, MD, deployed with duty at Abu Ghraib, Iraq DATE: 17 Jan 04 TIME: 1950 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: CPL/E4 I, Matthew Scott Bolinger want to make the following statement under oath: Maybe around the middle part of November 04, I was going to CPL GRANER's room with SPC ENGLAND, because she had to get something out of GRANER's room. SPC ENGLAND was under restriction from seeing GRANER for an inappropriate relationship. After we enter the room, we saw then [delete] now [delete], who was playing a video game in the room, and GRANER was also there. GRANER told me to check this out and that is when he pulled a CD out from under his mattress in a CD case. GRANER put the CD in the computer and then walk away to help ENGLAND find whatever it was she was looking for. As GRANER got up to walk away, the video popped up, it did not having any sound to it. There was a female bent over, kind of leaning over, she was in the prison, and [delete] was behind her. At one point the camera popped up and that is when I saw the person behind the girl and recognize that it was [delete] who was having sex with her. Then the camera moved to her face and I could really only see her eyes, and then it went back to showing both of them. I could not really see [delete] penetrating her, but his pants were around his ankles, and I could tell that he had no underwear at least that I could see. The underwear could have been with the pants around his ankles. The girl was completely nude. I got to see about 20 to 25 seconds of this video, and then GRANER quickly shut it off. GRANER was just moving very quick to get that video off the screen. [Big delete] Q. Why do you think that [delete] and her were having sex? A. Mostly from the motion of the girl's body. She would bounce, as his mid section would hit her. I have seen other people having sex before in videos and it looked like that. Q. Do you know whom the girl was? A. No. Q. How do you know it was in the prison? A. Cause you could see the corner of the jail cell through out the video. Q. Do you know who was holding the camera? A. I have no idea. Q. What kind of pants did [delete] have on? A. DCU. Q. How far away did it appear the camera was from them when they were having sex? A. It looked like it was really close. That is why you could only see a little at a time. They filled up the frame of the camera. Q. Have you ever seen any other videos or images of the prison or detainees? A. Just the ones of the females acting like they are urinating in the jail cells. I think it was in tier one in the back left hand side where the urinals in the floor are. The pictures were of both [delete] and [delete] they had their hands across their knees and their DCU pants around their ankles and they were acting like they were pissing in the toilets. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No. /// END OF STATEMENT /// MSB AFFIDAVIT I, Matthew Scott Bolinger HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 17th DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHARIB PRISON, IRAQ Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Baghdad Correctional Facility LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: A [delete] N [delete] [delete] ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: Prison 2A, Baghdad Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, APO AE 09335 DATE: 17 Jan 04 TIME: 1731 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: ISN #7787 FILE NUMBER: 0003-04-CID149-83130 GRADE/STATUS: CIV/INTERNEE I, N [delete [delete] [delete] A [delete] want to make the following statement under oath: One day in Ramadan, I don't know the exact date; we were involved in a fight in Compound 2, so they transferred us to the hardsite. As soon as we arrived, they put sandbags over our heads and they kept beating us and called us bad names. After they removed the sandbags they stripped us naked as a newborn baby. Then they ordered us to hold our penises and stroke it and this was only during the night. They started to take photographs as if it was a porn movie. And they treated us like animals not humans. They kept doing this for a long time. No one showed us mercy. Nothing but cursing and beating. Then they started to write words on our buttocks, which we didn't know what it means. After that they left us for the next two days naked with no clothes, with no mattresses, as if we were dogs. And every single night this military guy comes over and beat us and handcuffed us until the end of his shift at 0400. This was for three days and he didn't serve us dinner except for bread and tea. If we had chicken, he would throw it away. The first night when they stripped us naked they made us get on our hands and knees and they started to pile us one on top of the other. They started to take pictures from the front and from the back. And if anyone want to know the details of this, take the negative from the night guard and you will find everything I said was true. The next day the day shift gave us clothes and when the night shift started, the same guard who tortured us the night before came and took the clothes and left us naked and handcuffed to the bed. At the end of his shift he uncuffed us and then he punch us in the stomach and hit us on the head and face. Then he goes home. I kept thinking what is he going to do to us the next night, this white man with the white glasses. When I see him I'm scared to death. Again, watch the pictures in his belongings. He and the two short female soldiers and the black soldier during this dark night. When we were naked he ordered us to stroke, acting like we're masturbating and when we start to do that he would bring another inmate and sit him down on his knees in front of the penis and take photos which looked like this inmate was putting the penis in his mouth. Before that, I felt that someone was playing with my penis with a pen. After this they make H [delete] [delete] stand in front of me and they forced me to slap him on the face, but I refused cause he is my friend. After this they asked' H [delete] to hit me, so he punched my stomach. I asked him to do that, so they don't beat him like they had beaten me when I refused to hit H [delete] N [delete] S [delete] H [delete] M [delete[ [delete] S [delete] H [delete} H [delete] H [delete A [delete] S [delete] those are the names of the people who were there at this night which we felt like 1000 nights. Q: IEM A: N [delete] [delete] [delete] A [delete] Q: How many soldiers were there that night? A: 3 men and 2 women. Q: Do you know the names of the soldiers? A: I don't know the soldiers names, but I know what one of them looks like and this was their supervisor. The reason why I know him because I saw him every single night I spent there. Q: What did the supervisor look like? A: He's white, muscular, wearing clear medical glasses. He had a blu tattoo on one of his shoulders. I don't know which shoulder and I don't know what tattoo it resembled. And he works every night from 4 pm to 4 am. // End of Statement /// Translated By: AFFIDAVIT I, N [delete] [delete] A [delete] HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 14th DAY OF JANUARY, 2004 AT PRISONER INTERROGATION TEAM (PIT) (CID) (FWD), BAGHDAD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, ABU GHRAIB, 09335 Signature of Person Administering Oath SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Iraq, APO AE 09335 LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: JOYNER, Hydrue S. ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 372nd Military Police Company, Abu Ghraib Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq APO AE 09335 DATE: 17 Jan 04 TIME: 1404 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: E5/Reserves I, Hydrue S. JOYNDER want to make the following statement under oath: I am assigned to the 372nd Military Police Company, currently assigned to the Abu Ghraib Correctional Facility located in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. I work at the hard site in the 1A Military Intelligence (M.I.) tier during the day shift: which is from 0400 to 1600 hours. On January 16th 2004 on or about 1400 hours I was interviewed by Agent PIERON about a situation of suspected prisoner abuse by Military Police personnel. As I stated in my interview I never personally witnessed any abuse by Military Police personnel. I was next asked to view digital pictures and video for identification of suspected Military Police personnel that may have been involved and any inmates that I may be able to identify. After viewing the digital pictures and video I did make positive identification on the following Military personnel, SSG FREDERICK; CPL GRANER; SPC ENGLAND: SPC HARMAN; and SPC SIVITS. I was also able to recognize the following inmates from the same digital pictures and video, inmate #20092 who was nicknamed ''Gus'' this inmate was released from the prison approximately two months ago, and two inmates who were suspected of committing rape; whose names I do not recall but their inmate numbers are [delete] and [delete] Q: SA BOBECK A: SGT JOYNER Q: Did you ever see "Gus" having to crawl around like a dog? A: No that didn't happen on my shift. Q: Prior to this incident, did you ever hear of any rumors that abuse was occurring during the night shift? A: I heard rumors, I thought it was prisoners making that up and I didn't think anyone would be that stupid. Q: Do you know the inmate who had ''rapest" written on him? A: No. Q: Do you of any other inmates who may have been abused by the night shift? A: Maybe "trigger". Q: How did you feel when you saw the pictures on the CD? A: It made me want to throw-up. I couldn"t believe what I was seeing. Q: Do you know who any of the Military Intelligence personnel were in the pictures? A: No. Q: Have you ever been directed by the Military Intelligence personnel of any other government agency to "soften-up" a prisoner prior to the interrogation? A: Yes. I would have them do physical training to tire them out. Q: Do you know Steve (NFI)? A: Yes, he would come in and interview prisoners and sometimes ask me show a prisoner "special attention". Q: What did "special attention" mean to you? A: Basically it meant to give the prisoner physical training or to making sure they were awake. Q: Can you describe what the Military Intelligence personnel looked like? A: I did not know any of their names and they did not use their names, They were all males, but none of them had any scars or tattoos or any distinctive mark that I could identify. Q: Do you know anyone who still has any pictures of the abuse? A: No. Q: Do you have anything else to add to this statement? A: No. /// END OF STATEMENT /// HJ AFFIDAVIT I, Jydrue S. JOYNER, HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 17th DAY OF JANUARY, 2004 AT ABU GHRAIB, IRAQ, APO AE 09335 Signature of Person Administering Oath TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY T
[delete] [delete] D [delete], Detainee "I went to the Solitary Confinement on the Sep/10/2003. I was there for 67 days of suffering and little to eat and the torture I saw myself. When I asked the guard Joyner about the time and he cuffed my hand to the door then when his duty ended the second guard came, his name is Grainer, he released my hand from the door and he cuffed my hand in the back. Then I told him I did not do anything to get punished this way so when I said that he hit me hard on my chest and he cuffed me to the window of the room about 5 hours and did not give me any food that day and I stayed without food for 24 hours. I saw lots of people getting naked for a few days getting punished in the first days of Ramadan. They came with two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and Grainer was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures from top and bottom and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners. The prisoners, two of them, were young. I don't know their names." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: Statements on 16 Jan 2004 SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: TIRE 1A, Baghdad Correctional Facility LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: A [delete] A [delete] [delete] ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: Baghdad Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq APO AE 09335 DATE: 16 Jan 04 TIME: 1722 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: NDRS #151362 FILE NUMBER: 0003-04-CID149-83130 GRADE/STATUS: CIV/DETAINEE I, A [delete] [delete] A [delete] want to make the following statement under oath: I am A [delete] [delete] A [delete]. I was arrested on the 7 Oct 2003. They brought me over to Abu Ghraib Prison they put me in a tent for one night. During this night the guards every one or two hours and threaten me with torture and punishment. The second day they transferred me to the hard site. Before I got in, a soldier put a sand bag over my head. I didn't see anything after that. They took me inside the building and started to scream at me. The stripped me naked, they asked me, "Do you pray to Allah?" I said. "Yes," They said, "Fuck you" and "Fuck him." One of them said, "You are not getting out of here health, you are getting out of here handicap." And he said to me, "Are you married?" I said, "Yes." They said, "If your wife saw you like this, she will be disappointed." One of them said, "But if I saw her now, she would not be disappointed now because I would rape her." Then one of them took me to the shower, removed the sand bag, and I saw him, a black man, he told me to take a shower and he said he would come inside and rape me and I was very scared. Then they put the sand bag over my head and took me to cell #5. And for the next five days I didn't sleep because they use to come to my cell, asking me to stand up for hours and hours. And they slammed the outer door, which made a loud scary noise inside the cell. And this black soldier took me once more to the showers, stood there staring at my body. And he threaten he was going to rape me again. After that, they started to interrogate me. I lied to them so they threaten me with hard punishment. Then other interrogators came over and told me, "If you tell the truth, we will let you go as soon as possible before Ramadan," so I confessed and said the truth. Four days after that, they took me to the camp and I didn't see those interrogators anymore. New interrogators came and re-interrogated me. After I told them the truth they accused me of being lying to them. After 18 days in the camp, they sent me to the hard site. I asked the interrogators why? They said they did not know. Two days before led (End of Ramadan), an interrogator came to me with a women and an interpreter. He said I'm one step away from being in prison forever. He started the interrogation with this statement and end it with this statement. The first day of led, the incident of "Firing" happened. I got shot with several bullets in my body and got transferred to the hospital. And there, the interrogator "Steve" came to me and threaten me with the hardest torture when I go back to the prison. I said to him. "I'm sorry about what happened." He said to me, "Don't be sorry now, because you will be sorry later." After several days he came back and said to me, "If I put you under torture, do you think this would be fair?" I said to him, "Why?" He said he needed more information from me. I told him, "I already told you everything I know." He said, "We'll see when you come back to the prison." After 17 or 18 days, I was released from the hospital, went back to Abu Ghraib, he took me somewhere and the guard put a pistol to my head. He said, "I wish I can kill you right now." I spend the night at this place and next morning they took me to the hard site. They received me there with screaming, shoving, pushing and pulling. They forced me to walk from the main gate to my cell. Otherwise they would beat my broken leg. I was in a very bad shape. When I went to the cell, they took my crutches and I didn't see it since. Inside the cell, they asked me to strip naked; they didn't give me blanket or clothes or anything. Every hour or two, soldiers came, threatening me they were going to kill me and torture me and I'm going to be in prison forever and they might transfer me to Guantanamo Bay. One of them came and told me that he failed to shoot me the first time, but he will make sure he will succeed next time. And he said to me they were going to throw a pistol or a knife in my cell, then shoot me. Sometime they said, "We will make you wish to die and it will not happen." The night guard came over, his name is GRANER, open the cell door, came in with a number of soldiers. They forced me to eat pork and they put liquor in my mouth. They put this substance on my nose and forehead and it was very hot. The guards started to hit me on my broken leg several times with a solid plastic stick. He told me he got shot in his leg and he showed me the scare and he would retaliate from me for this. They stripped me naked. One of them told me he would rape me. He drew a picture of a woman to my back and makes me stand in shameful position holding my buttocks. Someone else asked me, "Do you believe in anything?" I said to him, "I believe in Allah." So he said, "But I believe in torture and I will torture you." When I go home to my country, I will ask whoever comes after me to torture you. Then they handcuffed me and hung me to the bed. They ordered me to curse Islam and because they started to hit my broken leg, I cursed my religion. They ordered me to thank Jesus that I'm alive. And I did what they ordered me. This is against my belief. They left me hang from the bed and after a little while I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself still hang between the bed and the floor. Until now, I lost feeling in three fingers in my right hand. I sat on the bed, one of them stood by the door and pee'd on me. And he said, "GRANER, your prisoner pee'd on himself." And then GRANER came and laughed. After several hours GRANER came and uncuffed me, then I slept. In the morning until now, people I don't know come over and humiliate me and threaten that they will torture me. The second night, GRANER came hand hung me to the cell door. I told him. "I have a broken shoulder, I'm afraid it will break again, cause the doctor told me "don't put your arms behind your back." He said, "I don't care." Then he hung me to the door for more than eight hours. I was screaming from pain the whole night. GRANER and others use to come and ask me, "does it hurt." I said. "Yes." They said. "Good." And they smack me on the back of the head. After that a soldier came and uncuffed me. My right shoulder and my wrist was in bad shape and great pain. (When I was hung to the door, I lost consciousness several times) Then I slept. In the morning I told the doctor that I think my shoulder is broken because I can't my hand. I feel sever pain. He checked my shoulder and told me, "I will bring another doctor to see you tomorrow." The next day, the other doctor checked my shoulder and said to me, he's taking me to the hospital the next day for X-rays. And the next day he took me to the hospital and X-rayed my shoulder and the doctor told me, "Your shoulder is not broke, but your shoulder is badly hurt." Then they took me back to the hard site. Every time I leave and come back. I have to crawl back to my cell because I can't walk. The next day, other soldiers came at night and took photos of me while I'm naked. They humiliated me and made of me and threaten me. After that. the interrogators came over and identify the person who gave me the pistols between some pictures. And this guy wasn't in the pictures. When I told them that, they said they will torture me and they will come every single night to ask me the same question accompanied with soldiers having weapons and they point a weapon to my head and threaten that they will kill me; sometime with dogs and they hang me to the door allowing the dogs to try to bite me. This happened for a full week or more. Q: IEM A: A [delete] [delete] A [delete] Q: Have you ever seen GRANER beating a prisoner? A: No. Q: Have you ever seen GRANER/any guards pile naked prisoners over each other? A: No. Q: Have you ever seen GRANER/any guards taking photographs of prisoners? A: No. Q: Have you ever seen GRANER/any guards taking photographs during punishment time? A: No. Q: Have you ever seen GRANER/any soldiers taking photographs while beating prisoners? Q: Have you ever seen any soldier positioning naked prisoners on top of each other? A: No. Q: Have you ever seen any guard/American soldier position naked prisoners in sexual positions? A: No. /// End of Statement /// Translated By: AFFIDAVIT I, H [delete] [delete] [delete] [delete] A [delete] HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 3. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 20th DAY OF JANUARY, 2003 AT BAGHDAD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, ABU GHRAIB, IZ, APO AE 09335 Signature of Person Administering Oath TRANSLATION OF STATEMENT PROVIDED BY A [delete] [delete] [delete] F [delete], Detainee# 18470, 1610/16 JAN 04: "On the third day, after five o'clock, Mr. Grainer came and took me to Room #37, which is the shower room, and he started punishing me. Then he brought a box of food and he made me stand on it with no clothing, except a blanket. Then a tall black soldier came and put electrical wires on my fingers and toes and on my penis, and I had a bag over my head. Then he was saying "which switch is on for electricity." And he came with a loudspeaker and he was shouting near my ear and then he brought the camera and he took some pictures of me, which I knew because of the flash of the camera. And he took the hood off and he was describing some poses he wanted me to do, and the I was tired and I fell down. And then Mr. Grainer came and made me stand up on the stairs and made me carry a box of food. I was so tired and I dropped it. He started screaming at me in English. He made me lift a white chair high in the air. Then the chair came down and then Mr. Joyner took the hood off my head and took me to my room. And I slept after that for about an hour and then I woke up at the headcount time. I couldn't go to sleep after that because I was very scared." TRANSLATED BY: VERIFIED BY: SWORN STATEMENT LOCATION: Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Iraq LAST NAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME: HARMAN, Sabrina D. ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS: 372nd MP Co., Cumberland MD, deployed with duty at Abu Ghraib, Iraq DATE: 16 Jan 04 TIME: 1227 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER: [delete] GRADE/STATUS: SPC, Ad Res. I, Sabrina D. Harman want to make the following statement under oath: Q. Were you truthful in your first statement to C1D? A. No. Q. What did not tell the truth about? A. Writing rapist on the guy's leg. Q. Was there anything else that you did not tell CID about? A. Just stuff I did not remember. Q. Did you take any of the photographs of the detainee's home during R&R leave? A. Yes. Q. Where are the photographs now? A. In my apartment. The photographs are by the computer. They are on a CD rom. The CD is located in the CD rack, on the right hand side of the computer. I think it is blue or green case, all of the rest of them are red. It may have the word picture wrote on the outside of it. Q. Did you show these photographs to anyone while home? A. Kelly, my roommate. Q. Whose apartment are these photographs in? A. Mine. I pay the rent for the apartment. Q. Will you give Army CID consent to retrieve the photographs from the apartment? A. Yes. Q. Did you email or show anyone else the photographs? A. No. Q. Do you have any more copies of the photographs here or anywhere else? A. No. Q. Who else has copies of these photographs? A. FREDERICK, GRANER, M [delete], Ops 4th Platoon, 372nd; DARBY, L [delete], and R [delete] there are [delete; I am not sure which one has them. Q. Who else might have copies of these photographs? A. I know that people from MI have them because they were swapping pictures. Q. Who was swapping pictures? A. FREDERICK and I think GRANER as well. I do not know what type of pictures they were swapping. Q. Did you ever talk to anyone else while home about the photographs? A. Just the girl from CNN. We were at a club called Cobalt in DC. Somehow we got introduced and I told her were I worked. She told me were she worked. She gave me her business card, and we went our separate ways. Q. Do you have her business card still? A. Probably not, but Kelly might know her. Q. Did you tell her the substance of the photographs? A. I am sure I did, but I do not remember what I said. Q. Do you have anything to add to this statement? A. No. /// End of Statement /// SH AFFIDAVIT I, Sabrina D. HARMAN HAVE READ OR HAVE HAD READ TO ME THIS STATEMENT WHICH BEGINS ON PAGE 1 AND ENDS ON PAGE 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STATEMENT MADE BY ME. THE STATEMENT IS TRUE. I HAVE INITIALED ALL CORRECTIONS AND HAVE INITIALED THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE CONTAINING THE STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF BENEFIT OR REWARD, WITHOUT THREAT OR PUNISHMENT, AND WITHOUT COERCION, UNLAWFUL INFLUENCE, OR UNLAWFUL INDUCEMENT. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, A PERSON BY LAW TO ADMINISTER OATH, THIS 16th DAY OF JAN 04 AT ABU GHRAIB PRISON, IRAQ. Signature of Person Administering Oath
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