250 former Iraq detainees claim torture in new US lawsuit

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than 250 people once held in Iraqi prisons, including the notorious Abu Ghraib, have filed suit against a US military contractor for their alleged torture, attorneys said Tuesday.

The Center for Constitutional Rights said a lawsuit was filed in US federal court on Monday asking for millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages against CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Virginia.

The complaint, filed in the name 256 former detainees who were released without ever being charged with a crime, alleges that CACI interrogators who were sent to Iraqi prisons directed and engaged in torture between 2003-2004.

The lawsuit charges that the detainees were repeatedly beaten, sodomized, threatened with rape, kept naked in their cells, subjected to electric shock and attacked by unmuzzled dogs, among other humiliations.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071218/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqmilitarytorturecourt

[pinto]

1. Given this legal finding, I hope they have standing and the court hears the case:

"The two contractors allegedly directed corporal Charles Graner, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for this role in the Abu Ghraib scandal, and sergeant Ivan Frederick, who is serving an eight-year jail term, according to the lawsuit."

(on edit) from the same story cited

[Diane R]

2. K&R. I hope the American people are told about this.

[Solly Mack]

3. K/R

[Joanne98]

4. K&R!

[babylonsister]

5. Wow. Just wow. nt

[StClone]

6. Two hundred-fifty survivors

What about the dead? Very few of these people were ever threats to the U.S... many were in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were wronged even the guilty BECAUSE they never were brought properly to justice only Bushwhacked.

[greiner3]

7. Sodomized?

I see why republics are in charge of this!