These emails are between US government officials who traveled to Baghdad together and were preparing a report on their observations and the allegations of detainee abuse. One of the authors states that there were three (3) "probably true/valid" reports of detainee abuse cases reported to him while he was in country. There is description of the detainee detention facilities and those facilities and certain detainees were in very bad shape, so much so that the facilities had to be closed down and the detainees transferred to other facilities. In addition, he describes the sites as being visited by the ICRC.
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Your Instincts served us very well in the early days and got us off the right start My thanks to you yet again. I . cnOw if was a difacun time for you, tit your persistence in doing the right thing was always carnal. We have been able to weather the storm as a result.
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Actually, the info fro nalliMI was first mentioned by her daring our one day visit to Baghdad and then briefed during an end of day w bile we were still in Qatar. The dates are from naitotebook; I didn't have our location noted and should have looked on the calendar=
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