it was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a u.s. soldier in interrogation room 6 in the western iraqi desert. two days before, a secret cia-sponsored group of iraqi paramilitaries, working with army interrogators, had beaten mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents.