English: 11:04 p.m., Nov. 4, 2003. Placed in this position by HARMAN and FREDERICK. Both took pictures as a joke. Instructed if moved would be electrocuted. SSG FREDERICK is depicted with a Cyber Shot camera in his hands. SOLDIER(S): SSG FREDERICK. All caption information is taken directly from CID materials. U.S. Army / Criminal Investigation Command (CID). Seized by the U.S. Government. Note: Hooded detainee standing on the box with wires attached to his left and right hand; the detainee was told that he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box. Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, at right. Photo taken shortly after 11 pm, 4 November 2003. This is one of Sabrina Harman’s photographs of the prisoner nicknamed Gilligan and later correctly identified as Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh. Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick II, who took the iconic picture, The Hooded Man is standing to the right. This picture was taken approximately three minutes after the The Hooded Man.
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U.S. military personnel as part of that person's official duties are ineligible for copyright in the United States. The photographers of the
Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos have asserted this was the case under oath.