The Ghost of the 15th Detainee

[MiaCulpa]

My follow-up to my report on the recently leaked Red Cross report on torture in the CIA secret prisons...

Last week, I wrote about the recently leaked Red Cross report that detailed medical personnel involvement in the torture of detainees in the CIA's secret prisons. There were 14 names in that ICRC report, detainees who made it to Gitmo after their 'harsh interrogations.'

Missing from that list is Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi man who was picked up by Navy SEALS in Iraq, and interrogated by the CIA.

Jamadi isn't on the list because he died in the care of CIA interrogator Mark Swanner at Abu Ghraib in 2003. From The New Yorker in 2005:

Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in Swanner’s custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated. In a subsequent internal investigation, United States government authorities classified Jamadi’s death as a “homicide,” meaning that it resulted from unnatural causes. Swanner has not been charged with a crime and continues to work for the agency.

More at the link for those interested:

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/the-ghost-of-the-15th-detainee/


--Diane

[annabanana]

1. It's called

getting away with murder.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

The CIA and the Murder of Manadel Jamadi at Abu Ghraib
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2442488



Sometime in November
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2431246

[glinda]

3. Swanner needs to have a trial. This is crap. Awful.

[Echo In Light]

4. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

5. KnR for greater visibility. n/t