Interviewee was the Team Chief of the Tiger Team from GTMO assigned to AG.
Vaguely recalled discussion of an incident in which an interpreter walked out of an interrogation.
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WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH:
been asked to provide further intormation to revisit and clarify statements I made to investigators on 3 Jun 04., regarding the
Ghralb (AG') Detention Facility, Iraq. As 1 previously stated, I was the team Abu and
from the Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) Detention Facility with the mission of providing advice and assistance
reporting of two incidents involving detainees at 6•
me as the team leadci
to assist CJTF-7 My team included three interrogators and ' analysts, organized into three teams, wi th one inter •
chief for a 'tiger Team • • • and
The GTMO perso_(analyst, equisalen US Manna Co_ d my GTMO Tiger 'le
c w_
w i_PAPPAS and as _DIC), and he chose the l titer
• tI)_arriva at AG,_1 met Detention and Interrogation Center O _ees or build up the Joint
total/}' focused on setting up the JDIC which included the Fusion Cell, the Detainee Assessment Boar ,
n interro,• tc detainees enons. My other four team members were task-organized with
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. . Team issues. I was the Tcarn and were_ . working interrogation ig .
on and Management and Dissemination, _.. es in the ICE, the four GTMO team members fell under the
command, then
the AG Interroganon Control El cnt (ICE) undc
_ _ rted to
ver reportedLeader from a GTMO team perspective, but while _
command and control of the ICE. If one of my GTMO team members didn't get an ans wer eter
ing my interview on 3 Jun 04, 1 was asked '
'instructed a detainee to roll down his jumpsuit to s waste and the interpr
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they would have brought their issu ong and hard about . and 1 can't really recall any more details about this incident
interrogation, but I
t which_ _
me about an Interrogation to
•_ I ha_
reported it to me I clearly recall that he told me an interpreter walked ou
relic 4_ or the circumstances and conditions of the
•me •iscusse• n terms of similar problems we had encountered at GTMO where interpreters disrupted and interruptedor if_ _oiling down the detainee's jumpsuit I'm
recti_ c• 11 we had a discussion, but I can I recall the lace to fpart abou_
would have reported it. 1 did report the
ated _
interrogations.__I_-Teter
discussion. But I don't remember the conversation rel _1_
seceellr,reported
woiking hard to tr: to remenibcr, but I can't recall it. If he gave me that it v
_ ssidnment issues, but I cant recall his name. Duritg my interview on 3 Jun 04, 1 was asked if 03, I have been working hard a _ idn't say anything, I just can't
problem wan the interpreter walking out, but 1 can't recall to whom 1 reported it. 1 think I told
to me an incident. which he witnessed in the Hard Site in which a detainee was hand-cuffed, layi
whimpering, widi a hood over his head. Again, since I last met with irises _ reported it inamcdiate .y and not nything about it, but I can't remember I'm not sayin
_ or to some other officer in the AG chain to try to remember a
recall the conversation. If he had reported it to me, given the seventy _a ong time w le at AG. At one point in late Nov I was
. Id have reported it to COL PAPPAS o H cl Site 1 now
k fora _
the time that the shooting Incident took plaee atwaited until the next day._t remember the conversation I was _al the Hard
pl .. don -us _sho_
ot command__turned to the
laid out on my hack on quarters fur about a week _ ort1, a_
red at no •iscuss details
recall that 1 was on quarters sick when three of my team members re
shooting but it was not until as_ t n
Site. I had heard earlier that ere • __
tel :earned that they had responded to the Hard Site 1 un
thcr than those investigators I know to be directly involved M this inquiry. I have nothing further tobarracks Mat
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