Manadel al-Jamadi was detained by CIA personnel at Abu Ghraib prison on suspicions of participating in a terrorist attack in Baghdad. He faced no trial. After he was brought to the prison, he was stripped and a bag was placed on his head. During the interrogation, he was drenched with cold water. Subsequently, his hands were tied behind his back, and he was hung by his wrists from a barred window and interrogated for a half hour. No useful intelligence was obtained from the interrogation.

His body was discovered the next day locked in the prison’s showers with bruises covering his body and blood coming out of his nose and mouth. After his body was found, it was fitted with an IV in an attempt to make his death look like the result of a medical emergency. His death was determined a homicide after an autopsy, the cause of death a blood clot resulting from blunt trauma.

Later, the body bag was opened and US Army personnel Sabrina Harman and [Charles Graner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/AbuGhraibScandalGraner55.jpg) posed for pictures with al-Jamadi’s corpse. Sabrina Harman and Charles Graner also appeared in other infamous photos from the prison, [Graner notably in a photo where he appeared to be beating hooded and handcuffed Iraqi prisoners](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Graner.jpg), and [both Harman and Graner appeared in a photo taken with naked, hooded prisoners who had been forced to form a human pyramid](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg/1280px-Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg). Sabrina Harman served 6 months in prison for charges relating to the photos, and Charles Graner was sentenced to 10 years in prison, of which he served 6 and 1/2 years, for charges related to the photos and other incidents of prisoner abuse and torture that he was involved in.