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| name        = Joseph Hickman
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| birth_date  = 1964
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| nationality = [[USA]]
| other_names = Joe Hickman
| known_for   = Describing a cover-up around the first three deaths at Guantanamo
| occupation  = Soldier
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'''Joseph Hickman''' is an [[American]] soldier who reported a cover-up around the first three deaths at Guantanamo.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18>
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| url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
| title=The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
| publisher=[[Harper's magazine]]
| date=2010-01-18
| author=[[Scott Horton (lawyer)|Scott Horton]]
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}}</ref><ref name=TheGuardian2010-01-18>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/guantanamo-investigation-harpers-interrogation
| title=US magazine claims Guantánamo inmates were killed during questioning
| publisher=[[The Guardian]]
| date=2010-01-18
| author=Ian Cobain
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2010%2Fjan%2F18%2Fguantanamo-investigation-harpers-interrogation&date=2010-01-18
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{{cite news
| url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h97BGvSdx97hHzNDkUiDzI8JsB7A
| title=Questions over deaths of 3 Guantanamo detainees raised by magazine article
| publisher=[[Canadian Press]]
| date=2010-01-18
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{{cite news
| url=http://www.prnewschannel.com/absolutenm/templates/?z=0&a=2121
| title=Statement from Attorney for Camp Delta Sergeant Joe Hickman who Blew the Whistle on Human Rights Abuses
| publisher=[[PR News Channel]]
| date=2010-01-18
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{{cite news
| url=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/from-fishback-to-hickman-the-american-soldier-comes-through.html
| title=From Fishback To Hickman: The American Soldier Comes Through
| publisher=The Atlantic
| date=2010-01-18
| author=[[Andrew Sullivan]]
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He was one of four guards who reported that, at 7:00 on June 10, 2006 -- hours after three Guantanamo captives died --
he and the other guards who had been on duty were ordered to participate in a cover-up.
He descibed being addressed by [[Colonel]] [[Michael Bumgarner]], the commander of the [[Joint Detention Group]], the camp's Guard force,
told the guards the men had choked themselves on rags, but that the press would be told that the men hung themselves using their bed sheets.

==Military career==

Hickman joined the [[United States Marine Corp]] in his home town of [[Baltimore]], when he was 19 years old, in 1983.<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/>
He was selected to serve in the Marine Protective Detail for [[United States President|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]].
Hickman served a four-year enlistment in the Marine Corp.

After [[al-Qaeda]]'s attacks of [[September 11, 2001]] he re-enlisted -- in the [[United States Army]].<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/>
He was demobilized in 2007, at the rank of [[Staff Sergeant]].
In May 2006 he was recognized as "NCO of the quarter", at the [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base]].

Between his enlistment in the Marine Corp in the 1980s, and his enlistment in the Army in the 2000s, Hickman worked in the field of private security, and then as a [[private investigator]].<ref name=Harpers2010-01-18/>

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