User:Geo Swan/Romper Room (interrogation chamber)
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During the United States Invasion of Iraq the CIA and US military special forces maintained an interrogation chamber at Baghdad Airport they called the Romper Room.[1][2][3] The existence of the Romper Room became known to the public during the court martial of Navy Lieutenant Andrew Ledford, the commander of the SEAL team that captured Manadel al-Jamadi.[4][5]</ref name=Cid-2004-07-04/> Al-Jamadi was first interrogated at the Romper Room. He was subsequently sent to Abu Ghraib prison, where he was sent directly to the showers at the "hard site" where interrogations took place -- without being given a medical examination, or even having the hood removed from his face.
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Nicolas J.S. Davies (2010). Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. Nimble Books. p. 194. ISBN 9781934840986.
Manadel al-Jamadi died under CIA interrogation at the Abu Ghraib on November 4, 2003. He had six broken ribs and a bullet wound to the spleen, but was killed by an Israeli technique known as a "Palestinian hanging." He was detained by Navy SEALs and CIA personnel and taken to the "Romper Room" at Baghdad Airport, where he was doused with cold water, beaten, and tortured. At Abu Ghraib, he was a "ghost" prisoner, hidden from the ICRC. The Palestinian hanging involved a sort of crucifixion, hanging from a window frame with his hands outstretched so that he could neither stand, sit, nor kneel without pain. His body was found with his arms "almost coming out of their sockets" and blood gushing from his mouth. Navy Seal Lieutenant Andrew Ledford was acquitted of all charges in his death, and Mark Swanner, Jamadii's CIA interrogator at Abu Ghraib, was not charged and was still working for the CIA in 2006.
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Stephen Grey (2007). Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program. Macmillan. p. 161. ISBN 9780312360245.
The SEALs took al-Jamadi back to their Navy camp near Baghdad Airport, Camp Jenny Pozzi. The commander of the SEAL platoon, Lieutenant Andrew Ledford, was later put on trial at a court-martial in San Diego, accused of allowing al-Jamadi to be severely beaten. He was cleared by the jury of the charge of improper conduct. But in testimony, witnesses testified that al-Jamadi was punched, kicked, and struck by the SEALs at the camp, among other places in a tiney space known as the Romper Room. Al-Jamadi was stripped, and water was poured all over him. Among those there were the SEALs and CIA officers, the latter including an interrogator and polygraph expert named Mark Swanner and "Clint C," a private contract translator for the agency.
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"Navy SEAL: CIA roughed up Iraqi prisoner". USA Today. 2004-11-01. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
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.
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John McChesney (2005-10-28). "Documents Shed Light on Abu Ghraib Death". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
NPR has obtained those documents and they provide many new details, such as what happened during the first stage of Al-Jamadi's CIA interrogation at the SEALs base near Baghdad international airport in a place sardonically called `the romper room.' There, he was stripped, strapped to a chair and doused with cold water as an interrogator bombarded him with questions and threats. An actor reads what one of the CIA's security guards told agency investigators.
mirror - ^ "SEAL says Iraqi was roughed up". Fort Lauderdale Times Daily. 2005-11-02. p. 5. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
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