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US commander present when detainee died at Abu Ghraib

BAGHDAD: Captain Donald Reese said a “Colonel Pappas” was one of a number of people present during the interrogation. Colonel Thomas Pappas was commander of the 205 Military Intelligence Brigade at the prison near Baghdad. He is now deployed in Germany, a US military spokesman said. Captain Donald Reese described how he saw the bleeding body of a prisoner who was brought in alive after a bomb attack on the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Iraqi capital on October 27. “I was told that when he was brought in he was combative, that they took him up to the room and during the interrogation he passed,” Reese said during his testimony on Thursday, adding that the first time he saw the man was when he was dead in a shower. Reese said he had at first been told that the man died of a heart attack. The body “was bleeding from the head, nose, mouth,” he said. “I heard Colonel Pappas say: ‘I’m not going to go down alone for this’,” Reese told the hearing. The body was left locked in the shower overnight to avoid frightening other prisoners and an autopsy was conducted the following day, the captain said. afp

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