Initial reaction force

Part of the allegations charge that regular guards will create reasons to call on the IRF to brutalize detainees over petty or non-existent infractions; refusing to agree to the third cell search in a day or infractions as slight as placing their toiletries on their shelf in the wrong order.

I have witnessed the activities of the Internal Reaction Force (hereinafter "IRF"), which consists of a squad of soldiers that enter a detainee's cell and brutalize him with the aid of an attack dog.

Part of the allegation claims that, when the squad arrives at a detainee's cell, they shout out demands to comply.

[2][3] In his first interview, after his repatriation, Tarek Dergoul asserted that a sixth member of the ERF team always stood outside the cell, with a video camera, recording the action.

Camp Commandant Jay Hood appeared before the committee two months later with a selection of recordings of the use of the ERF squad.