Camp Nama
Coordinates: 33 ° 14 ′ 50.3 ″ N , 44 ° 13 ′ 18.4 ″ O Camp Nama was a military base at the airport of Baghdad , Iraq , during the reign of Saddam Hussein . The name is an acronym for Nasty Ass Military Area .
After the US invasion , the area was taken over by US elite soldiers in mid-2003. On March 19, 2006, the New York Times reported that the complex was being used by Task Force 6-26 to torture and ill-treat Iraqi prisoners. This happened before and after the torture scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison . Some of the tortures took place in the so-called "Black Room", which was also used as a torture chamber in Hussein's time.
Since August 2003, several official agencies have issued warnings about the conditions. The CIA forbade its employees from participating in the interrogations. There were posters around the prison that read: "No Blood No Foul". This should mean that if the prisoners don't bleed, no one can charge you. One of the main aims of the facility was to interrogate prisoners in order to obtain information about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi . In the summer of 2004 the camp was closed.
The Black Room
The individual areas of the camp were located in the military part of the airport site, and all buildings were given catchy cover names to keep them secret: "VIP Room", "Motel 6", "Hotel California", .... Prisoners who were considered valuable were interrogated in the "Black Room". This was an empty room with large metal hooks hanging from the ceiling. In order to torment the prisoners, they were played with deafening music - rock 'n' roll or rap - between interrogations . In the room the prisoners were degraded, spat at, yelled at and beaten with rifle butts. On the premises, other prisoners were also used as targets for target practice with paintball rifles, the hits of which left painful bruises.