May 21, 2009
At Abu Ghraib, a few sadistic prison guards abused inmates in violation of American law, military regulation, and simple decency. For the harm they did to Iraqi prisoners and to America's cause, they deserved and received Army justice.
And it takes a deeply unfair cast of mind to equate the disgraces of Abu Ghraib with the lawful, skillful, and entirely honorable work of CIA personnel trained to deal with a few malevolent men.
Dick Cheney
Setting the Conditions
August 31 to September 9, 2003
Major General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, leads a survey team to plan intelligence, interrogation, and detention operations in Iraq.
September 5, 2003
A JPRA (SERE) training team arrives in Iraq. Their visit includes Abu Ghraib.
September 6, 2003
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tours Abu Ghraib.
September 9, 2003
General Miller delivers his recommendations. Guantanamo Bay should be used as a baseline. Interrogation in Iraq should be consolidated in one place. MPs should work to set the conditions for interrogation.
Dedicate and train a detention guard force subordinate to the JIDC Commander that sets the conditions for the successful interrogation and exploitation of internees/detainees. This action is now in progress.
General Geoffrey Miller
I had conversations with MG Miller on a couple of occasions.... Specifically, I recall he discussed the implementation of dedicated MP support to MI.
Captain Carolyn Wood
They [MPs] would be the bad guys and MI would be the good guy to gather information.
Colonel Jerry Phillabaum
Training
October 1, 2003
The 372nd MP Company, a reserve unit, moves to Abu Ghraib. It gets two weeks on-the-job training. Nudity, sexual humiliation, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and sensory deprivation are all standard procedures when the 372nd arrives.
This is also the deadline date for centralizing and consolidating interrogation and detention at Abu Ghraib. Most other locations in Iraq are now intended as 72-hour holding sites.
October 3 or 4, 2003
3:00 or 4:00 p.m.
Military police transport a prisoner to the hard site.
One of them whispered in my ear, "today I am going to fuck you", and he said this in Arabic. Whoever was with me experienced the same thing. That's what the American soldiers did.... When they took me to the cell, the translator Abu Hamid came with an American soldier and his rank was sergeant (I believe). And he called told me "faggot" because I was wearing the woman's underwear, and my answer was "no". Then he told me "why are you wearing this underwear", then I told them "because you make me wear it."
Kasim Hilas (#151108)
October 5
Three Guantanamo Tiger Teams arrive for duty at Abu Ghraib. Their task is to help set up and develop the interrogation center.
October 7, 2003
A training team from the military intelligence school at Fort Huachuca arrives at Abu Ghraib. Their course was originally developed for reservists at Guantanamo Bay.
Military intelligence soldiers with a service history at Bagram conduct an interrogation.
She was escorted downstairs to another cell where she was shown a naked male detainee and told the same would happen to her if she did not cooperate. She was then taken back to her cell, forced to kneel and raise her arms while one of the Soldiers (SOLDIER31, A/519 MI BN) removed her shirt. She began to cry, and her shirt was given back as the Soldier cursed at her and said they would be back each night.
Fay Report
October 8, 2003
Military police transport a prisoner to the hard site.
He told me to take a shower and he said he would come inside and rape me and I was very scared. Then they put the sand bag over my head and took me to cell #5. And for the next five days I didn't sleep because they use to come to my cell, asking me to stand up for hours and hours.
Ameen al-Sheikh (#151362)
About October 8, 2003
A trainer from Fort Huachuca speaks off-hours with contract interrogator Steve Stefanowicz. The trainer recommends that Stefanowitz talk to military police about the possibilities for the use of dogs, and that photos of harsh treatment be taken to show and scare detainees.
I used some extremely harsh words to describe the level of fear the prisoner should feel. I told him that this fear, the guards, this place all come together to create a harsh environment and that this sets the stage for the interrogation. I told him that he should be the first friendly face the prisoner sees, and the prisoner will want to talk to relieve his fear.
Sergeant Walters
Taking Command
October 15, 2003
The 372nd MP Company takes command of Abu Ghraib.
Captain Christopher Brinson, a grade above the usual platoon leader, is made Officer in Charge of the hard site, a segregation ward holding a mix of juveniles, women, prisoners with mental problems, punishment cases, Military Intelligence holds, and OGA "ghost" detainees.
October 18, 2003
9:00 p.m.
And the first punishment was taking me to room #1, and they put handcuffs on my hand and they cuffed me high for 7 or 8 hours. And that caused a rupture to my right hand and I had a cut that was bleeding and had pus coming from it.
Amjed Waleed (#151365)
October 20, 2003
12:29 a.m.
Between rounds of waking prisoners up, MP Sabrina Harman writes home.
Most have been so scared they piss on themselves.
Specialist Sabrina Harman
1:35 a.m.
1:53 a.m.
October 21, 2003
Prisoner #151365 (three photos, above) is interrogated.
Prisoner #150425 is punished on discovery of a shank made from a broken toothbrush.
The guard came and cuffed me to the cell door for two hours, after that they took me to a closed room and more than five guards poured cold water on me, and forced me to put my head in someone's urine that was already in the room. After that they beat me with a broom and stepped on my head with their feet while it was still in the urine. They pressed my ass with a broom and spit on it.
Abd Alwhab Youss (#150425)
October 23, 2003
The International Committee of the Red Cross ends a three-day visit.
10:50 p.m.
Acts of humiliation ... while being laughed at by guards, including female guards...
International Committee of the Red Cross
I get to laugh at them and throw corn at them.
Specialist Sabrina Harman
Point at him and laugh at him while he was in the shower naked.
Specialist Megan Ambuhl
Pretending to drag him on a leash type thing.
Private Lynndie England
...were used by the military intelligence in a systematic way to gain confessions and extract information.
International Committee of the Red Cross
October 25, 2003
Around midnight:
I saw the translator Abu Hamid fucking a kid. his age be would be about 15-18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets.
Kasim Hilas (#151108)
Approx. noon:
Patient was raped in hardcell, needs check up
For any injury to Rectum area
15 yo. male. Speaks reluctantly, fearfully.
Through interpreter, states he was threatened by 2 other
inmates with death unless he complied.
...
No DNA evidence or swabs
done per instruction of CPT [Redacted] of MPs.
Detainee Medical Records
8:16 p.m.
He [General Sanchez] said they are like dogs and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them.
General Janis Karpinski (June 2004)
After 10:00 p.m.
They brought three prisoners completely naked and they tied them together with cuffs and they stuck one to another. I saw the American soldier hitting them with a football and they were taking pictures. I saw Grainer hitting one of the prisoners right in the face very hard when he refused to take off his underwear and I heard them begging for help.
Kasim Hilas (#151108)
One of the MI soldiers pointed to the naked detainees and said "These are the people who raped a little boy".... Then the MI soldiers ordered all three detainees to low crawl on the floor. When the detainees attempted to arch up, two of the MI soldiers put pressure in the middle of their backs and yelled at them to get down.
Sergeant Ken Davis
11:06 p.m.
Are you gay? Do you like what is happening to you? Are you all gays? These were some of the questions or things that I told them.
Adel Nakhla, a.k.a. Abu Hamid
October 26, 2003
About midnight:
Before Ramadan, Grainer covered all the rooms with bed sheets. Then I heard screams coming from Room #1, at that time I was in Room #50 and it's right below me so I looked into the room. I saw A---- in Room #1, who was naked and Grainer was putting the phosphoric light up his ass. A----- was screaming for help. There was another tall white man who was with Grainer, he was helping him. There was also a white female soldier, short, she was taking pictures.
Mustafa Jassim Mustafa (#150542)
They put the sheets on the door again. Grainer and his helper they cuffed one prisoner in Room #1, named A---- he was Iraqi citizen. They tied him to the bed and they were inserted the phosphoric light in his ass and he was yelling for God's help. ... That was Ramadan, around twelve midnight approximately when I saw them putting the stick in his ass. The female soldier was taking pictures.
Kasim Hilas (#151108)
Then they broke the glowing finger and spread it on me until I was glowing and they were laughing. They took me to the room and they signaled me to get on to the floor. And one of the police he put a part of his stick that he always carries inside my ass and I felt it going inside me about 2 centimeters, approximately. And I started screaming, and he pulled it out and he washed it with water inside the room.
Amjed Waleed (#151365)
Sunrise:
Ramadan starts.
Day:
MP chain of command, MI chain of command, and criminal investigation are informed of the previous night's events.
Joyner said he would tell his NCOIC about it. He left and came back later and told me it had been taken care of.
Specialist Hannah Schlegel
They told me they knew about it and I should not have been told about this. I went ahead and reported it to CID just in case they had not heard. They said they knew bout it.
Sergeant [E. DeLaRosa?], Fusion Analysis Cell NCOIC
Coming back from the missions, my lieutenant was out back of our living facility. And I said, sir, I need to talk to you.
Sergeant Ken Davis
Roughly midnight:
And they repeated the same thing the second day of Ramadan.
Kasim Hilas (#151108)
October 27, 2003
Short hundreds of meals every feeding, bugs and dirt are found in the meals several times a week, and for the past two days prisoners have been vomitting after they eat.
Major David Dinenna
October 29, 2003
Amjed Waleed (see
Oct. 26) is interrogated.
November 2, 2003
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez visits Abu Ghraib and speaks with interrogators.
8:54 p.m.
November 4, 2003
After 1:00 a.m.
A convoy of thirty to thirty-five Navy Seals in six or seven Humvees, plus two OGA Chevy Suburbans, arrives at Manadel al-Jamadi's three-story apartment building near Baghdad. Polish commandos serve as security.
The team blows down the door of the wrong apartment. The male occupant is detained.
As an explosive charge is being placed on the correct door, someone inside opens it. The suspect is tackled. A brief and brutal fight ensues. Al-Jamadi's stove falls on Al-Jamadi. He is subdued.
Al-Jamadi and his neighbor are thrown into a Humvee. Al-Jamadi is driven to a pre-established location, where he is identified by a waiting informant.
Al-Jamadi is taken to FOB St. Michael, where he is beaten by turns. Navy Seals break both of al-Jamadi's thumbs.
About 3:00 a.m:
Al-Jamadi is taken to Camp Jenny Pozzi at Baghdad International Airport. He is in-processed in the "volleyball pit" and interrogated in the "romper room" by the CIA and Navy Seals. Blood seeps from the sandbag over his head, and he occasionally slumps unconscious in his chair.
After an interrogation, Al-Jamadi's neighbor is released.
About 5:00 a.m.
CIA agents Mark Swanner and "Clint C." bring al-Jamadi to Abu Ghraib. He is wearing a shirt but no pants.
About 6:00 a.m.
The CIA has MPs shackle al-Jamadi with his arms behind his back, hanging from a bar in a window of the shower room in the hard site. As he hangs from his arms, he has six broken ribs, a broken nose, a contusion and fluid accumulation in his left lung, and a plastic sandbag over his head.
About 6:45 a.m.
The CIA calls for MPs to shackle al-Jamadi higher. Three MPs reposition him, but he immediately collapses. His hood is removed and he is checked for signs of life.
About 6:55 a.m.
Al-Jamadi is unshackled and lowered to the floor.
Blood came gushing out of his nose and mouth, as if a faucet had been turned on.
Sergeant Jeffrey Frost
Shortly after:
Several MP Sergeants, Captain Brinson, two medics, several OGAs, an Iraqi doctor, MI Lieutenant Colonel Jordan, an army doctor, MI Colonel Pappas, MP Captain Reese, and a Major arrive. The CIA calls Washington, and directs that Al-Jamadi's body be held until the next day.
Midafternoon:
Captain Brinson has al-Jamadi's body placed in a bag and packed with ice.
4:00 p.m.
The afternoon shift change meeting is held.
He [Captain Brinson] said there was a prisoner who had died in the shower, and he died of a heart attack.
Specialist Sabrina Harman
11:04 p.m.
He was to be kept awake for three days and pretty much harassed.
Corporal Charles Graner
To say, hey if you fall off you're going to be electrocuted, I mean, that would keep anybody awake. So it was part of the sleep plan.
Specialist Sabrina Harman
And he took the hood off and he was describing some of the poses he wanted me to do, and the I was tired and I fell down.
Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh (#18170)
November 5, 2003
1:21 a.m.
About 3:30 a.m.
Two prisoners escape through the window of their cell.
About 10:00 a.m
Al-Jamadi's body is placed on a gurney and an I.V. is put in his arm. The body is taken from the prison and put in an ambulance or a taxi.
Unknown time:
And then they stripped me naked and they took me under the water and then he made me crawl the hallway until I was bleeding from my chest to my knees and my hands. And after that he put me back into the cell and an hour later took me out from the cell the second time to the shower room under cold water and then he made me get up on a box, naked, and he hit me on my manhood.
Asad Hanfosh (#152529)
November 7, 2003
10:15 p.m.
Seven prisoners are transported to the hard site.
One day in Ramadan, I don't know the exact date, we were involved in a fight in Compound 2, so they transferred us to the hardsite. As soon as we arrived, they put sandbags over our heads and they kept beating us and called us bad names. After they removed the sandbags they stripped us naked as a newborn baby. Then they ordered us to hold our penises and stroke it and this was only during the night. They started to take photographs as if it was a porn movie. And they treated us like animals not humans. They kept doing this for a long time. No one showed us mercy. Nothing but cursing and beating.
Nori al-Yassiri (#7787)
11:16 p.m.
I don't know if he hit every single one, but pretty close because he hit a lot of people. During the time he was hitting the detainees, he posed for a photograph in which it looked like he was going to hit the detainee. After the photo was taken, he continued to hit the detainees.
Specialist Matt Wisdom
11:44 p.m.
They brought my friends, Haidar, Ahmed, Nouri, Ahzem, Hashiem, Mustafa, and I, and they put us 2 on the bottom, 2 on top of them, and 2 on top of those and one on top. They took pictures of us and we were naked.
Hussein Al-Zayiadi (#19446)
November 8, 2003
12:14 a.m.
Sometime before dawn:
After the end of the beating, they took us to our separate cells and they opened the water in the cell, and they told us to to lie face down in the water and we stayed like that until the morning, in the water, naked, without clothes.
Hussein Al-Zayiadi (#19446)
They took us to our cells, took the mattresses out and dropped water on the floor and they made us sleep on our stomachs on the floor with the bags on our head and they took pictures of everything.
Hiadar Abed Miktub-Aboodi (#13077)
Before 8:22 p.m.
Six prisoners escape from Ganci Compound 8.
November 9, 2003
CPL Graner showed still photographs of what happened to his MP platoon Chain of Command and requested to be removed from the prison. He was told to keep following military intelligence instructions by his Platoon Leader.
Specialist Megan Ambuhl
MP Sabrina Harman writes home.
We might be under investigation. I’m not sure, there’s talk about it. Yes, they do beat the prisoners up and I’ve written this to you before.
Specialist Sabrina Harman
About November 13, 2003
MI interrogator Luciana Spencer and analyst Armin Cruz write up an interrogation plan.
Detainee should be treated harshly because friendly treatment has not been productive and because COL Pappas wants fast resolution.
Interrogator Notes (Fay incidents #44)
Roughly 2:00 a.m.
When they finished interrogating me, the female interrogator left. And then Grainer and another man, who looked like Grainer but doesn't have glasses, and has a thin mustache, and he was young and tall, came into the room. They threw pepper on my face and the beating started. This went on for a half hour. And then he started beating me with the chair until the chair was broken. After that they started choking me. At that time I thought I was going to die, but it's a miracle I lived. And then they started beating me again. They concentrated on beating me in my heart until they got tired from beating me. They took a little break and then they started kicking me very hard with their feet until I passed out.
Walid Mohanded Juma (#152307)
November 14, 2003
2:40 a.m.
A Tiger Team finishes up a two hour interrogation of a detainee.
IT SHOULD BE DULY NOTED THAT FEAR OF RE-RE WILL BE USED, AS WELL AS GAY UP HARSH, AND GROUND-HOG DAY APPROACH. SOURCE IS A FAG, OF HIGH INTEL VALUE, AND SHOULD STAY IN THE HOLE. HE IS BAD. HE IS MEAN. I DON'T LIKE HIM. HE CAN KILL. HE IS BAD.
Interrogator
I THINK THAT IN ADDITION TO ALL APPROACHES, FEAR OF BROOMSTICK IN THE ASS SHOULD BE USED. HE IS BAD.
Analyst
Evening:
MPs transport six bound and hooded "Iraqi Generals" from Camp Vigilant to the hard site.
5:40 p.m.
About 6:00 p.m.
Prison officials are summoned after receiving reports there was "a blood smear on a wall."
Lipinski said when he arrived with Capt. Christopher Brinson to investigate, they saw a prisoner sitting against the wall with his face bloodied. He said Graner first told prison officials the detainee had "stumbled on a pile of rubble."
Newspaper report of Graner's trial
After 8:00 p.m.
Captain Brinson downgrades MI treatment instructions for the new arrivals.
November 16, 2003
Graner receives a written counseling statement.
CPL Graner, you are doing a fine job in Tier I of the BCF. As the NCOIC of the "MI Hold" area, you have received many accolades from the MI units here...
There was an incident on 14 NOV 03 involving a security detainee whose actions in your words required you to use force to regain control of the situation. The detainee received abrasions and cuts on his face from the incident. Let me state first and foremost, you have an inherent right to self-defense.... Unless other evidence presents itself, I accept your version of events.
Captain Christopher Brinson
November 19, 2003
Command of Abu Ghraib is transferred from Military Police to Military Intelligence.
The FRAGO generated tension between MI and the MPs. The MP chain of command pulled the MP detail dedicated to MI for transportation of detainees between their holding area and the interrogation booths.
Captain Carolyn Wood
November 24, 2003
1:00 p.m.
A disturbance breaks out at Camp Ganci. Guards shoot four detainees, killing three. Nine U.S. soldiers are injured.
About 6:00 p.m
A prisoner, perhaps Amjed Waleed, has informed MPs that another detainee has a handgun smuggled into his cell. MI Lieutenant Colonel Steve Jordan and 4 MPs form an ad-hoc search team: prison command and the internal reaction force are not informed.
A firefire ensues. Sergeant William Cathcart is shot in the chest but protected by his kevlar vest. The detainee is shot with nonlethal rounds, then lethal shotgun rounds to his legs.
About 10:00 p.m.
All five dog teams and the internal reaction force arrive at the hard site. IRF soldiers see Captain Brinson beating two detainees, one "staged", one not.
The area was in disarray with mattresses, clothes, and trash thrown all over the place. There was one individual that appeared to be in charge, but I don't know who it was. He was about five foot, six inches to five foot, seven inches tall, medium build, medium to light complexion, with blond hair in a "high and tight" style. I heard people referring to him as "captain".
Petty Officer Bill Kimbro
This CPT had come upstairs and pulled out an individual nicknamed [Redacted] and held him by the throat screaming at him. He was then taken into another cell where he was questioned and screamed at some more. This detainee was an informant and this was staged to make it appear that he was not assisting us with identifying the detainee that had the hand grenade. After interrogating the detainee the CPT went back downstairs and pulled out another detainee.
Sergeant Darrell Plude
On the top tear, I had a view of the Captain throwing the [second, downstairs] inmate against the wall. The inmate fell to the ground. The Captain began kicking the inmate in the mid section yelling at the inmate.
Sergeant Greg Spiker
One soldier was standing next to the left side of the prisoner's head with the barrell of his rifle pressed against the prisoner's head. I observed the other soldier kneeling next to the right side of the prisoner at approximately waist level. I observed this soldier begin to strike the prisoner in the small of the back with a closed fist. The soldier struck the prisoner approximately ten times. The soldier then stood up and kicked the prisoner in the right hip and right side approximately three times.
Specialist John Polak
The detainee was screaming while this was going on. The CPT stated "You like hurting my soldiers". The kicks were full force into the detainee.
Sergeant Greg Spiker
Very shortly later, in a separate event:
I saw the dog during this strike the detainee. The detainee was bound and could not move, and the handler would allow the K-9 to approach within inches his face, and one time the dog bit the detainee's arm. When I saw the detainee later it appeared the detainee was bitten multiple times.
Sergeant Greg Spiker
About the same time, in another incident:
Navy dog handler Kimbro is called to a cell. Yelling from inside the cell agitates his dog. The dog lunges inside the cell, and snips at Titan contractor Etaf Mheisen. Kimbro leaves the hard site.
November 25, 2003
Ramadan ends.
November 30, 2003
Military intelligence draws up an interrogation plan for Juwad Ali Khalf (#151363).
If the detainee has not broken yet, interrogators will move into the segregation phase of the approach. Interrogators will coordinate with Military Police guards in the segregation area prior to initiation of this phase. For the segregation phase of the approach the MPs will put an empty sandbag onto the prisoners head before moving him out of Vigilant B. This measure will be for force protection purposes and transporting the detainee to the segregation area by HMMWV. MPs will be transporting the detainee with the interrogators present. During transportation, the Fear up Harsh approach will be continued, highlighting the Allah factor. Interrogators will take all necessary precautions in conjunction with the MPs to ensure detainee's safety during transport. Upon arrival at site, MP guards will take him into custody. MP working dogs will be present and barking during this phase.
Colonel Tom Pappas
Early December, 2003
An Iraqi Policeman is interrogated by CACI contractor Daniel Johnson, with Titan interpreter Etaf Mheisen.
I was standing outside the door. Now the way it worked was he [Johnson] would be questioning the guy and if he didn't answer, Johnson would say he was going to have me come in the room. That was my key to come into the room.
Sergeant Chip Frederick
December 10, 2003
MPs write up an SOP for the use of dogs.
CPT Hampton prepared it, I proofread it, and LTC Phillabaum signed it.
Major David Dinenna
December 12, 2003
10:47 p.m.
And I also saw in Room #5 they brought the dogs. Grainer brought the dogs and they bit him in the right and left leg. He was from Iran and they started beating him up in the main hallway of the prison.
Walid Juma (#152307)
Tonight ended up being the same ole same ole.... Inmate tries to break out of cell i find out i punish i bring in dogs i get assaulted dog bites prisoner.
Corporal Charles Graner
I'd rather not discuss the incident.
Sergeant Santos Cardona
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December 13, 2003
10:20 a.m.
A fight breaks out at Ganci compound 8. Nonlethal rounds are fired to disperse it.
11:20 a.m.
A fight breaks out at Ganci compound 2. Nonlethal rounds are fired to disperse it.
4:42 p.m.
A fight breaks out at Ganci compound 3. Nonlethal rounds are fired to disperse it.
8:30 p.m.
Saddam Hussein is captured near Tikrit.
December 14, 2003
The St. Petersburg Times profiles the 800th MP brigade commander.
Living conditions now are better in prison than at home.
General Janis Karpinski
December 19, 2003
Captain Brinson finishes his tour and is released from active duty. He relinquishes command of the hard site.
December 30, 2003
I was told by his interrogator, Big Steve, that he was al-Qaida.... He said, "Any chance you get, put the dogs on."
Sergeant Chip Frederick
January 4 to 8, 2004
The International Committee of the Red Cross visits Abu Ghraib. Colonel Pappas and Colonel Warren deny access to eight detainees. A High Value Detainee is being held in a lightless latrineless 6' by 3' cell with a sign on the door: "The Gollum".
The translator stood at the end of the corridor and shouted to us: "Look all of you. The Red Cross will come to you today and if you say anything more than what is allowed then you will see a very, very dark day today and tomorrow will be darker and so on and so on."
Saddam al-Rawi (#200144)
January 13, 2004
1:30 p.m.
Khaled al-Maqtari is captured in "Operation Market Sweep" in Fallujah and helicoptered to Abu Ghraib. He will spend nine days at Abu Ghraib, three months in a dark prison in Afghanistan, more than two years at a "black site" prison, perhaps in Europe, and some eight months in a jail in Yemen.
Evening or night:
Al-Maqtari has his clothes cut off with scissors, and is hooded and shackled. He is beaten in turns and is swung in circles to disorient him so he will run into walls. He is placed in front of an air conditioner and doused with water. When he can no longer hold aloft a case of bottled water, he is beaten with a stick. When he is near to passing out, smelling salts and vapor rub are used to revive him.
He is then suspended upside down on a chain from the ceiling, and raised and lowered onto the water crate with a pulley.
About 10;15 p.m.
Specialist Joseph Darby leaves two CDs of abuse photographs in the room of a military investigator.
When I learned CPL GRAINER was going to go back and work at the Hard Site, which is where the photos showing the prisoners being abused occurred. I knew I had to do something.
Specialist Joseph Darby
Investigation
January 16, 2004
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez orders a criminal investigation into reports of abuse at the prison.
The base commander orders amnesty boxes placed around the Abu Ghraib military base. Photos and other evidence at the site may be disposed of.
personnel will neither create nor possess photographs, videotapes, digital videos, CD/DVDs, computer files/folders, movies or any other medium containing images of any criminal or security detainee....
Personnel will have the opportunity to place all prohibited items or paraphernalia into the Amnesty Box without penalty or legal consequence.
Colonel Tom Pappas
January 31, 2004
Major General Antonio Taguba is appointed to conduct an inquiry of MPs.
February 2, 2004
General Taguba visits Abu Ghraib.
About February 2 to February 20, 2004
Investigators cannot locate Lieutenant Colonel Steve Jordan for interview.
April 28, 2004
60 Minutes II airs a story and photos about the abuse.
May 3, 2004
The New Yorker publishes photos of the abuse.
June 6, 2004
A review of all the computer media submitted to this office revealed a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125 images of questionable acts.
Special Agent James Seigmund
June 9, 2004
Captain Brinson offers to make a statement to investigators in return for immunity. His offer is declined.
July 17, 2004
Investigators are looking into an International Committee of the Red Cross report of a prisoner being handcuffed for eight hours while held at the hard site.
It is true that on more than one occasion detainee was shackled to the floor and blindfolded during interrogations.
Section lead, force protection Tiger Teams
Read this carefully.... If the detainee is the one we have in custody, interrogate him for lying.
Multinational Coalition Investigations Operations Officer
August 2, 2004
CID investigators are looking into allegations of abuse by military intelligence soldiers on Sept. 20, 2003.
Information obtained by MG [Fay] office could not be released by order of the Secretary of Defense.
Summary of Investigative Activity
January 2006
Captain Brinson receives a reprimand.
January 10, 2006
Major General Geoffrey Miller invokes his right against self-incrimination in court-martial proceedings against two MP dog handlers.
August 2007
Lieutenant Colonel Steve Jordan is the only commissioned officer court martialed for involvement in the abuse. He receives a reprimand and a fine. The reprimand is cleared from his record in January 2008.
May 21, 2009
Charles Graner serves ten years sentence at Fort Levenworth.
Christopher Brinson walks the halls of Congress: he is legislative director for Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama.
