Fay Report Annex: Statement of Corporal, Interrogator, 325th Military Intelligence Battalion re: Detainee Interrogations and Conditions at Abu Ghraib Prison

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This sworn statement by a Corporal, interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Battalion. Explained that detainees would be brought to him either in handcuffs or not, would request that they be blindfolded sometimes, sometimes the detainee would be seated during the interrogation or standing and sometimes the detainee would remain in handcuffs and sometimes not. Reported: "When I was walking through the isolation cells part of the prison, I saw prisoners being handcuffed to each other naked... One of the MPs took a Nerf football and threw it at the detainees and another MP threw water at the detainees."
Reported detainees being forced to do exercises, particularly, they were making them do exercises and 'smoking' them.
Reported: "Once I saw a detainee being walked on their hands and knees with a leash by an MP." "I saw MPs walking detainees on a leash and handcuffing them together...They walked out of the isolation section, up onto the second floor, through the whole isolation section, then they went down to where the Iraqi police were and they went back to the first floor...There was a third detainee...He was naked and they made him do push-ups, low crawl on the ground. [The MPs] were yelling at the detainee while he was doing this. There was no kicking or punching, if they wanted him to go the ground they would move the detainees arm to the ground and push them down."

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Interview
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Saturday, January 31, 2004
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005
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A COMPANY, 325TH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BATTALION. DEVENS, MA 01432
WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT UNDER OATH
While 1 was deployed inhaq, I was assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, US Forces moved into Iraq
and I was working in Abu Ghraib. There was alredy an Iraqi prison locatedin Abu Ghraib and when
they took control of the pnson. My job was an interrogator while I was assigned to the prison, I was interrogating Iraqi detainees, some of them were Syrian Iraqis, and I also performed interpretations of Russian speaking detainees. Each interrogation was different, my team leader would assign me a detainee to interrogate and I would perform plar;ning and preparation for each one. When I was ready I would call one of the Military Police (MP) working inside the prison, the guards,
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would tell them the number of the detainee that I wanted to talk to and they would bring the detainee into a tent, for about time first two or three weeks outside the facility, and then after the lust couple of weeks they were brought into wooden booths outside the prison. Inside the tent or booth with me would be an interpretor, an analyst, and myself. Sometimes there would be two analysts, sometimes no interpretor because the detainee speaks English. When the detainees were brought to me they were in
different conditions. Sometimes I would ask the MPs to bring the detainee blindfolded sometimes, hancuffed and for the first
couple of weeks they sometimes would be brought without handcuffs but then that stopped and they were always brought
handcuffed. I conduced the interrogations in different ways, sometimes we uncuffed them, sometimes not, sometimes we let
them stands and sometimes we would let them sit
Q. Were you ever present when any detainee was abused?
prisoners being handcuffed to each other naked, raving two inmates walking in the isolation section of the cells naked and handcuffed to each other. One of the MPs took a Nerf football and threw it at the detainees and another MP threw water at the detainees I had never seen anything like that before. I only saw this take place once. It was between the middle and the end of October or the beginning of November. 1 saw three or lour MY Guards in the same area. There were eight or nine Iraqi Police that saw it All the other detainess appeared normal.
A. Yes, when I was walking through the isolation cells part of the pnson. I saw
Q. Who were the individuals who abused the detainees?
detainees, the same night that I saw the detainees handcuffed to each othe as working as in the female section, and a very overweight interpretor, a TITAN Contrac
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Q. a ny ere the detainees e each nude on the floor and walking around?
A. The MPs were making these two detainees do exercises and "smoking" them. From what I understand these two detainees cell as a young bey when they came into the prison. the boy was fifteen or sixteen year old, and supposedly the
were in the same two raped the young boy in the prison. There were also Iraqi guards inside the pnson, the Iraqi guard saw it going on and told the MPs about it and the MPs ended up moving the boy to a juvenile cell. Then the two detainees who abused the boy were put in separate cells in isolation and "smoking" them, making them do push-ups and other exercises. After that incident, they didn't let us go to the isolation cells anymore and the MPs kept us our of there. Prior to that I could just go in there when I wanted but if I was going to do a full interrogation I had to let my supervisor know. Like one time when 1 wanted to bring a Koran into one of the detainees the MPs would not let me take it in and would not take it in for me.
Q. What was the purpose for you being present during this incident?
to me questions through the cell
A. Myself and my interpretor and analyst were asking one of the detainees that was assigned door.
Q. What other ways were the detainees abused? Once I saw a detainee being walked on their hands by and knees with a leash by an MP. The MP had a strap from a mattress
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or some cloth, he was an E-5 Guard, white male, 5'11", medium build, maybe 175 pounds, I'm not sure what unit be was in, he

nad dark hair. high and tight hair cut.

Q. Did you ever take any photographs of the detainees' )

A. No.
Q Do you know of anybody who took photographs or videotaped the detainees?

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Q. Have you ever seen any photographs of any detainees?
A. Not besides the photograph in their personal file.
Q. Have you ever seen anybody providing any photograhs to any other individuals?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever see anyone with a camera taking photographs of detainees?
A. Many of the MPs had camcras.but they would take pictures of themselves. I never saw any MP take pictures of any detainee: while they were han ffed.
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a leaskand handcuffing them together. There were four of five MPs that were involved in
saw MPs walking detainees on these types of things.
Q. Describe where the two inmates that were handcuffed together naked walked?
A. They walked out of the isolation section, up onto the second boor, through the whole isolation section, then they went down to where the Iraqi police were and they went back to the first floor. They eventually uncuffed both of them from each other and then separately and that is the last time I saw them. After die two handcuffed detainees were handcuffed individually, there was a third detainee that came from over where the Iraqi Police were, I'm really not sure, and he was not in the isolation cell from the beginning and he came. The same four of five MPs told the detainee to take his clothes off, be was naked and they made him dc push-ups, low crawl on the ground. They were yelling at the detainee while he was doing this. There was no kicking or punching, if they wanted him to go the ground they would move the detainees arm to the ground and push them down.
Q. Did you ever see any of the listed suspects photograph or videotape any of the detainees?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever receive any photographs of the detainees from the listed suspects or other personnel working at the prison?
A. No
Q. Did you receive emailed pictures of detainees Or email pictures of detainees?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever throw a football at the detainees?
A. No.
Q. Who were Inc detainees abused?
A. I don't remember the two that were handcuffed. One was about 6', very skinny 140 or 145 pounds, black hair, beard, mustache, and the other guy was about the same build, about 5'7", black hair, beard and mustache. The guy that was on the leash I don't remember what he looked like, I just remember he was built for an Iraqi, he had a scar that was a couple of inches on the right side of his neck. He was about 5'8" and built. 150 pounds.
Q. Is is common practics to have MPs assist in interrogations?
A. Its not common but it happens sometimes.
Q. Who told the MPs to conduct the interrogations?
A. No one, they aren't allowed to conduct the interrogations.
Q. What form of interrogation techniques were the MPs told to use? _
A. We asked them if they could come in and randomly yell at the detainee, sometimes there would be MPs in the booth just to
stay with the detainee while myself and my anitlyst would go outside and talk.

Q. Were any of the detainess injured during any interrogations by Military Intelligence (MI) with MP personnel?
A. No.
Q. Were any MI or MP personnel left alone with female detainees?
A. No. We only had three or four 5 and 1 never had to interrogate one of them.
Q. Did you ever see a videoclip of eying sex with a female detainee or female at the prison?
A. No.
Q. Has anyone discussed with you any incidents that happened to the detainees at the prison?
A. I never beard anything about anyone hitting or having anything sexual to do with the detainees.
Q. Can you describe the four of five guards that were present for the two inmates being hancuffed naked?
A. There were three white males and a black male, that is all I remember.
Q. Do you have anything else you wish to add to this statement? •
A. No detainees were abused or hurt in my custody.
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A. No.
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