Ex-Abu Ghraib inmates get $5m settlement from US firm
Source: BBC
A defence contractor whose subsidiary was accused of conspiring to torture Abu Ghraib prisoners has settled with former inmates for $5m (£3m).
US firm Engility Holdings paid 71 people held at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and other US-run prisons, on behalf of L-3 Services, according to a legal filing found by the Associated Press.
L-3 provided translators to the US military in post-war Iraq.
Images of abuse at Abu Ghraib in 2004 sparked international outage.
Another contractor which provided interrogators to the US military, CACI, is expected to go to trial over similar allegations.
The US government is immune from lawsuits stemming from combat actions by the military in time of war, but courts are still establishing whether independent firms operating in war zones should have the same legal immunity.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20953889
This, I guess, is one of the downsides of outsourcing war and terror. It's too bad that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co can't be held accountable as well.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Rumsfeld can chip in.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Disgusting!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Justin_Beach
(111 posts)I imagine that for Iraqi ex-prisoners - if they had to choose between cash and the guilty going to jail, they'd take the cash. Guessing they (and their families) have some expenses to deal with.