Background During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These violations ...
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Assassination Attempt: George H. W. Bush – 4/13/1993
Background April 13, 1993: Fourteen men believed to be in the employ of Saddam Hussein smuggled bombs into Kuwait with the intent of planting car bombs to assassinate Bush during his visit to Kuwait University. Two of the suspects Wali Abdelhadi ...
Summary and Reflection of Chief of Medical Services on the OMS Participation in the Detention and Interrogation Program
Background Originally, this record was released on the CIA FOIA Reading Room, wherein each and every page read, “PAGE DENIED”. Page after page, it looked like the page to the right. In June of 2018, I filed a Mandatory ...
Assassination Attempt: President George W. Bush – May 10, 2005
Background On 10 May 2005, Vladimir Arutyunian waited for United States President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to speak. When Bush began speaking, he threw a Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade, wrapped in a red plaid ...
Additional Operational and Security Considerations for the Next Phase of Abu Zubaydah Interrogation, July 2, 2002
Background This document was first released in 2016 (which I have archived below). I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review in November of 2018, and it appears someone else did the same earlier in the year, and it was processed again with ...
