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A graphic example of the shocking lack of accountability for the gravest human rights abuses, these documents follow the murder of Iraqi general Abed Hamed Mowhoush in U.S. custody in December 2003.

Mowhoush died during an interrogation in which he was forced into a sleeping bag that was bound with an electrical cord. lists the cause of death as 鈥渁sphyxia due to smothering and chest compression鈥� and rules it a homicide. The lone interrogator disciplined for the murder was reprimanded and fined $6,000; . The interrogator insists he was using what he believed were approved Survival, Evasion, Resist, Escape (SERE)-based techniques; 鈥渢he 鈥榮leeping bag technique' is a stress position I considered authorized by the [Coalition Joint Task Force] in their memo 鈥淐JTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy.鈥� He argues that 鈥渢he sleeping bag had been used on prior occasions on other detainees without incident鈥� and says, 鈥渨hile I have not examined the autopsy report, I do not believe that the sleeping bag was responsible for his death.鈥�

This prompts a handwritten comment: 鈥淒eath was from asphyxiation! I expect better adherence to standards in the future!鈥� A graphic example of the shocking lack of accountability for the gravest human rights abuses, these documents follow the murder of Iraqi general Abed Hamed Mowhoush in U.S. custody in December 2003.

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