Interviewee was assigned to AG around the end of October 2003 on generated detail.
Recounted an incident where he was escorting a detainee to the tier and the detainees were put into a pile on the floor. Then stated that [redacted] ran across the room and lunged in the air and landed in the middle where the detainees were (stated that he/she believed this occurred two times). The detainees made a sound, exhibiting that [redacted] hurt them or caused them pain when he would land on them.
Interviewee also recounted that [redacted] stomped on the detainee's fingers/toes, this would cause the detainees to scream loudly.
Recalled that the detainees were made to strip, while wearing sandbags over their heads. Upon undressing, [redacted] approached one detainee and hit him hard in the temple, with such force that the detainee fell unconscious. Interviewee walked over to the detainee to make sure he was still alive, interviewee stated that the detainee was still breathing.
Interviewee then stated that [redacted] walked over to the pile of detainees and put his knee on them and took a photo.
Finally, interviewee recounted that [redacted] punched a detainee with such force in the chest that the detainee could not breathe, a medic had to be called.
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t 'e to m e the_g statement about things that I have participated in or witnessed while I have been stationed at Abu .Ghraib correctional facility. Sometime about the end of Oct 03, I was on generated detail and_e by and asked me to come down to the hard site with him. He said that they had some new etainees come in, and wanted me to come bullshit with him. We got to where the detainees were at a holding cell, and I asked riff/Infihe wanted me to escort one of them to the tier and he said go ahead. So I took one of the detainees down to the tier. After we got to the tier, they put tfr detainee in a pile on the floor. The detainees .ere tossed in the middle of the floor together. That is whe across the room and lunged in the air and landed in the middle of where the detainees were. i clieve is is when _ come in and "get him some". Meaning to come in and be apart of whatever was going to happen. I believ _an across the room a total of two times and landed in the middle of the pile of detainees. A coule of the detainees kind of Made ariAH sound as if this hurt them or
_ caused them some type of pain when\.I would land on them. Aftenjilleiad done thillillercn stumped on either the fingers or toes of the tainees. When he stumped the detainees they were in pain, because the detainee would scream loudly. I know this ha ened to at least one detainee; maybe it was_a second one as well. I know afteii ad done this ,_Id him that was enough, anal/I stopped, and that was whe ft as well. Nex_ ad the detainee's strip.
as the one who told iem to strip in Arab, language. During this who time the detainees had sandbags over their heads The detainees did not want to take their civilian clothes or jumpsuits off, and were hesitant to strip There may have been one or two that had a jumpsuit on would take one of the detainees aside, tell them to strip, and they would strip. After the detainee was stripped,
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, still alive as well. I do not recall_saying anything. I do rememberallinrying, "Damn that hurt", referring to _iurting his hand when he punched the detainee. After aeut two minutes the detainee moved for e first time, like he was coming to. AfterP11111111ad done this he went over to the pile of detainees that were still clothed and he put his knees on them andiad his picture taken. I took this photo. 111111111111111111Pbout this point struck one of the detainees in the chest with a closed fist. The detainee was standing in front o ¦.1111111111Lnd for no rcaso _unched the detainee in the chest The detainee took a real deep breath an kind of squatted own. The deTainee said he could not breath. They called for a medic to come down, to try and get the detainee to breath right. _aid he
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