Interviewee arrived to AG in October 2003, was assigned to the prison.
Stated that he/she would receive instructions from MI regarding sleep management of detainees.
Stated that he/she was unaware of detainee humiliation, however, due to limited supplies knows some detainees given women's underwear.
Stated that he/she was aware of there being ghost detainees at the facility, stated that they were not be tracked, they were only supposed to be housed and fed (they were tracked as OGA1, OGA2, and so forth).
Recalled a detainee being brought in by two OGA personnel and two MPs; the detainee was brought to the shower room, the interviewee was called into the shower and determined the detainee was dead (stated the detainee was still handcuffed and had a sandbag over his head).
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WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH:
tion' officer in my
I arrived to Abu Gbraib I October 2003. 1 was initially placed as an escort o i but the NCOIC of the
civilian job, I was assigned to the prison. I began working in the office wi
• a ii r for guards in all theHard She. My responsibilities were to help setup a tracking systemto track tainees.
Tiers. When a guard went on leave, was off or had to go to chow, I would fill in for them until they came back. I worked in all the Tiers. My Interaction with MI was limited to getting the detainee for them and placing the detatoee back in the cell when they
was not aware of any photos orfinished with them. I never witnessed or had any knowledge of MI or MPs abusing detainees. I
videos of any detainees. I never beard Ml tell MPs soften-up" or give "the treatment" to a detainee. If MI asked us to do anything out of the ordinary, like sleep management. we asked them to give it to us in writing and they would. We were suppose other tasks that we often were not able to follow the sleep management.
to monitor the detainee's sleep but we were so busy with
As far as humiliation. 1 never knew of any MI using underwear to humiliate a detainee. I know we were short of so many
supplies, underwear, jumpsuits. towels, and health items We had no control over Tier lA and so we asked MI to get some
supplies for the detainees held there. They brought in underwear, female hygiene stuff and shaving supplies. Women's underwear
was all we bad sometimes. I was aware of "ghost' detainees These detainees were brought in by OGA. They were not accounted [or or kept tracked off. We were only supposed to house and feed them. We started keeping track of them bynumbering them OGA 1 OGA2 and so forth for an accurat comms of people in the prison OGA never asked to to mistreat or abuse detainees. I was present when OGA (a heavy individual about 5'2 or 5'3 and a very tall not clean shaven individual who reminded me of the Russian in the movie Rocky who spoke Arabic) brought in a detainee. It was shout 0430 when I was notified that OGA was banging in a detainee. Two MPs and the two OGA guys brought the detainee and took him to the shower mom. About 30-45 minutes late. 1 was called to come get the. detainee. When I arrived, the individual appeared to be dead. [ applied pressure to his chin and nothing happened. 1 was holding hue and he was dead weight. He still a sandbag over his bead and I took it off. I checked for his pulse and be had none. 1 called for the medical personnel and my chain of command. I took the handcuffs off.
d COL PAPPAS arrived and so did medical personnel. CII) called me about mid March to interview mc in
to crence to s event. I never had any knowledge of dogs be during interrogations. I did bear that a dog had bitten a
detainee during a search. I do not know who or what happe
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