Navy Seal says Iraqi who died at Abu Ghraib was roughed up in CIA's `rompe

[Kadie]

Navy Seal says Iraqi who died at Abu Ghraib was roughed up in CIA's `romper room'

By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer


Last Updated: November 1, 2004, 12:00:31 PM PST


SAN DIEGO (AP) - The CIA interrogated and roughed up Iraqi prisoners in a "romper room" where a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died last year at the Abu Ghraib prison, a Navy SEAL testified Monday.

Blood was visible on the hood worn by the prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, as he was led into the interrogation room at Baghdad International Airport in November 2003, the Navy commando said at a military pretrial hearing for another SEAL accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners.

Testifying under a grant of immunity, the witness, identified only by his rank as a hospital corpsman, said he kicked al-Jamadi several times, slapped him in the back of the head and punched him. Five or six other CIA personnel in the room laid their hands on the prisoner, he said, but he did not provide details.

Sometime later, Al-Jamadi was found dead in a shower room at Abu Ghraib less than an hour after two CIA personnel brought him into Abu Ghraib as a so-called "ghost detainee," according to Army Maj. Gen. George R. Fay's report on the notorious prison. Such detainees were not listed in the normal roster of military prisoners.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. hospital corpsman indeed

"freedom is on the march"

bush voters have blood on their hands.

[UpInArms]

3. hospital corpse man

was that a typo in your post?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. I just lifted it out of the article

I liked the irony.

[UpInArms]

7. Long live irony!

Irony is dead!

Ah, yes. I am enamored by the double-entendre.

[The Stranger]

2. Murder.

More and more blood on the hands of this Administration.

[DS1]

4. Let Freedom Sting

*slap slap slap*

Ain't that right, Kimmel?

[amber dog democrat]

5. None of the Corpsmen I knew would have acted that way.

This person needs to go to Levenworth and make paint brushes for a long, long time after his dishonerable discharge.

This is disgraceful.

[leftchick]

8. yeah! the pro-life party at work!

only the pre-born count in bushworld*!

[acmavm]

9. The Iraqi people know exactly what's going on. This shit is one of the BIG

reasons why they can't let a lot of the prisoners out of there. Not only for the stories they can tell, but also for the revenge they just might decide to take.

[saigon68]

10. Twisting the guys testicles

That story will get around. His relatives will swear a death oath to get even.

Who dreams up this shit.

Like Lynndie saying the CIA told her and Sabrina Harmann to duct tape their used, dirty Kotex Maxi pads to the POW's faces.

I'm sure glad we are bringing democracy to this country of Iraq-Nam. Especially with taping Bloody,Nasty, used Kotex Pads to the Faces of prisoners in our jails there.

Maybe they could import this quaint interrogation technique to the US to use on drug dealers and guys who won't confess to writing bad checks. </sarcasm>