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Q. Do you have any knowledge of what is actually in the report?
A. No, I do not.
Q. So what are your personal observations when you entered that back bedroom in house four?
A. Prior to our arrival at house four, we had no photographs from that house. The previous team of NCIS agents that had deployed out into that area, for whatever reason, the photographs that they took at house four somehow were compromised. So they had nothing; nothing on the outside, nothing on the inside, nothing of the area adjacent to house four. So we made the determination that we were going to go to house four first, being that we had nothing from that house.
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Q. Was any other evidence gathered in that room?
A. Samples of all the major groupings of what we believed to be bloodstains were taken for future DNA analysis.
Q. You had mentioned earlier today that you ended up interviewing some Iraqi witnesses. How did that happen?
A. Again, those interviews occurred after I was initially at the dam. I departed for Fallujah and returned to the dam about a week or ten days later, arranged for these interviews to be conducted. I was escorted from the forward operating base by the Marines to house four where I conducted the interviews in a living room.
Q. How many days after the deaths did these interviews take place, approximately?
A. It was approximately ten days.
Q. Do you recall who you interviewed?
A. Yes, I do.
Q. Who did you interview?
A. The first interview I conducted was a young Iraqi female by the name of Ehab.