Salihee and his colleague found "more than 30 examples in less than a week" of instances in which Iraqis would be detained by commandos, and their bodies later brought to morgues with signs of torture and execution.[1][7] Investigating individual cases, Salihee and Lassiter found that Iraqis would be abducted by commandos in white police Land Cruisers and American-made pistols and body armor.[6] They would then be tortured using whips, electrocution, beating and choking, before being executed.[6]