SAN DIEGO (AP) – Newly released Army documents suggest that soldiers at a makeshift Iraqi detention camp suspected that detainees were being mistreated by a Navy SEAL team whose members were photographed posing with bloodied prisoners.

Two Army interrogators said they were concerned about the way members of SEAL Team Five were treating prisoners, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. Some of the prisoners brought in by the SEALs “appeared to be very severely beaten,” an unnamed Army staff sergeant told investigators last year.

The statements were among hundreds of pages of documents about Iraq prisoner abuses the ACLU made public last week after obtaining them through the Freedom of Information Act.

Members of SEAL Team Five, based in Coronado, appear in a series of images found last year by The Associated Press that show the immediate aftermath of raids on civilian homes. It was unclear whether the photos and the Army reports involved the same men. There are more than 100 men in SEAL Team Five.

The Navy has launched an investigation into the photos of SEAL Team Five

“When we would inquire about their wounds, the SEALs/TF-20 members would provide a general ‘they resisted’ response,” according to a sworn statement by the unnamed staff sergeant with the 1st Engineer Battalion at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

The Navy has launched an investigation into the photos of SEAL Team Five. One image shows a detainee lying on his back with a boot on his chest. Another shows a prisoner with an automatic weapon pointed at his head and a gloved thumb jabbed into his throat. In several photos, grinning SEALs take turns sitting or lying atop what appear to be three hooded and handcuffed men in the bed of a pickup truck.

A report into the photos was completed in January, but the officer leading the investigation, SEAL Capt. James W. O’Connell, was traveling and was unable to review the report for several weeks.

Six unnamed Navy SEALs and two of their wives filed a lawsuit against the AP over the photos in December, claiming that the images and accompanying article published Dec. 3 showed them in a false light. They seek unspecified damages.

The AP has not yet been served with the complaint.

“We haven’t gotten any papers and are beginning to wonder whether they intend to proceed,” said Dave Tomlin, the news cooperative’s assistant general counsel.