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map would be transcribed into a larger line diagram at Tarin Kowt. Person 18 said that prior to going out on a mission, a line diagram would be established by the multimedia cell if possible. If not, he would make this up on the ground and just do a sketch map on the white piece of laminated paper. That would allow him to put in such things as a tunnel entrance. He would also be able to place persons detained and any specific variations in the compound that was not apparent from the imagery they had. Person 18 would mark the location of the persons under confinement and he would also mark where the bodies of the EKIAs were located. Person 18 went out to the northern side of the compound where he had been told there were two bodies. He commenced the scrunch method of searching. Person 18 said that he did not have a recollection of doing that with respect to the first body, but he definitely did in relation to the second body. The first body had a gunshot wound to the face and the second body was significant because the body had a prosthetic leg. Person 18 described the procedure in relation to the first body which had an injury to the face which, to his recollection, was a gunshot wound around the eyeball. He did not locate any weapons on the first body. He searched the body and anything found on the body was placed into an evidence bag and the evidence bag was placed on the body's chest. He then took a photograph. Person 18 described his search of the second body, EKIA57. He said that he took the prosthetic leg off and inspected the inside of the prosthetic leg. It was hollow. He did not locate any weapons on EKIA57. As with the first body, Person 18 said that everything that was found on the body of EKIA57 was placed in a bag and the bag was placed on the person's chest and a photograph was taken.

560 Exhibit R18 consists of 36 photographs. The first four photographs taken by Person 18 are of the body of EKIA50. Person 18 took the next five photographs which are photographs of the body of the man with the prosthetic leg, EKIA57. He identified this person as the first person outside the door or closest to the door and the man with the prosthetic leg. It was the second body he searched. He marked on the aerial photographs of W108 which contain his markings (exhibit R132; see also exhibit A117) the location of the first body he searched and the location of the second body he searched. He completed the evidence bag in relation to EKIA57.

561 Person 18 did a search of another body which was inside the compound. This body was of a man in white lying on his back. Person 18 said that he used the same searching method he had previously described with respect to the other two bodies. He put everything in a bag and took a photograph of the body. He said that this body was inside the compound, roughly near the tunnel entrance. He marked the location of the body on exhibit R132. He said that this body is shown in photographs he took which are pp 10 to 13 in exhibit R18. They show the person


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