Mark Swanner is a CIA interrogator. He worked at the Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib

The city of Abu Ghraib in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq is located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib...

 prison in 2003. A prisoner named Manadel al-Jamadi

Manadel al-Jamadi

Manadel al-Jamadi was an Iraqi prisoner who died in United States custody during interrogation at Abu Ghraib Prison on November 4, 2003. His name became known in 2004 when the Abu Ghraib scandal made news; his corpse packed in ice was the background for widely-reprinted photographs of grinning...

 died during one of his interrogations while his wrists were tied behind his back.

Media reports interpreted this to mean he was tied up in strappado

Strappado

Strappado is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are first tied behind their back and suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms...

style but guards told CIA investigators that Jamadi was given enough slack to kneel or stand.

Swanner claims that he did not harm al-Jamadi and that the death was accidental and unexpected. He has not been charged with a crime.

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