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Statement of IMEMIMIlgiven on 9 July 2004:

During a routine morning head and water call anincident concerning prisoner abuse was reported. This ismy account of what happened that morning. At 0500 on 5July 2004 I woke the detainees and told them to 'Salat orpray". They were afforded 30 minutes to pray beforereleased them for their head and water call. I began atAlpha-1 letting detainees out of the cells and lining themup along the concertina wire. Once all of them were out Iissued a verbal command in Arabic to "bow your heads".This is done to break down any attempt to makecommunication between detainees. One particular detaineewould bow his head for only a few seconds at a time and Ialso saw his mouth moving as if talking. I decided tosegregate the detainee from the main body. I then told themain body to fill their bottles with water and -et backline. I then escorted the detainees towardsposition by the rtable heads. I brought the segregatedetainee to (b)(7 )(C )d made him aware of the det neeunwi ingness to comply too orders. I wantedit)ifliC) o keep hint segregated. After the main body wasfinished with their head calls I escorted the main body ofdetainee's back to the concertina wire to wait on thesegregated detainee to return. I had the main body turntowards me," e -9d bow their heads. During thistime I heard (b)(7)(C)ell from the rear of the compound.All I could make out from the distance was 'Hey Marine".From my position and due to the sand berm blocking my viewI could not see-what was going on with the detainee ando walk in mygave me the

Iappene. Hetold me that he had instructed the detainee several timesto stand up after more than an adequate time washing hishands and he was still being insubordinate. He then toldme that he made the detainee stand up and sit down to makesure the detainee did in fact understand the commands. Iwas then told that was whAbout this timeas appstarted to approacainees while they were talking. I was no1 0to hear the conversation but soon afterward (b)(7)iC)inform d e thato see us and our shiftNCO, in the medical building. We continued themorning routine and I guess sometime during the morningEnclosure (10)

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A short time later eion. Once they reached meshotgun and said he was going to go talk toasked him what the problem was and what had

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(b)(7)(C) and ( b ) ( 7 ) ( C ) met with (b)(7)(C )thout me.I was under the impression the issue had been resolved. Inever heard of it again until three days ago I was informedof an investigation. This is my complete and wholerecollection of that morning's event's in its entirety this9 t h day of July 2004.

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