From the Iraq Occupation Watch website, I found an article which stated that the International Committee of the Red Cross is the "only organization with access to the detainment camps and a mandate for monitoring the conditions..." ("Searching for Yunis — and how many others?" David Enders, International Occupation Watch Center, November 28th, 2003). I found other references to a list obtained by the ICRC of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, but not any references to a list of prisoners who have died.
The ICRC, however, is only allowed to monitor on condition of confidentiality. For example, on the Red Cross report published by the Wall Street Journal back May of this year, Peter Eisler and Tom Squitieri of USA Today write that "Red Cross officials...declined to comment on the report. The organization gains access to prisoners of war and other detainees based on a promise to maintain confidentiality in its reports to responsible governments, said Antonella Notari, Red Cross spokeswoman in Geneva. 'We never intended to publish this report. It came from another source.'" I believe the report was later released, after photos of abuses at Abu Ghraib were made public, but I have not been able to find it on their website. As a bonus, here's a link to the .pdf of the Red Cross Report leaked to the Wall Street Journal, on May 8th, 2004, which is no longer easy to find on the Internet: www.indybay.org/uploads/icrcreport.pdf.
If there is a list of prisoners who died at Abu Ghraib, the ICRC might have it. I emailed them for it, but I seriously doubt they will respond.
On the WBAI Evening News show today, a lawyer from the ACLU told Gail Walker that Wednesday a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to comply with the ACLU's year old requests under the Freedom of Information Act for a list of names of detainees in US custody, as well as a list of names of detainees who have died in US custody. Supposedly the administration must begin complying by showing a sincere effort on this coming Monday (August 23, 2004). The lawyer claimed to know that at least 37 detainees in U.S. custody have died. Read the ACLU's news article here: www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=16270&c=280. This news article stipulates that the request is for lists of names of prisoners "in detention centers overseas." This, I believe, includes Abu Ghraib. Read more here: http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=13962&c=36
In other words, such a list of Iraqi prisoners who died at Abu Ghraib either doesn't exist, or isn't yet available to the public.
Hope this helps.
Matthew
