Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractor’s Legal Fees

[n2doc]

By Christina Wilkie,

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War.

The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the former prisoners in 2008, alleging that CACI employees directed the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The suit was dismissed in June, when U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled that because the alleged acts took place on foreign soil, CACI was “immune from suit” in U.S. court.

Lee did not, however, directly address the question of whether CACI employees took part in the mistreatment of prisoners. The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib exploded into an international scandal in 2004, when shocking photos emerged of prisoners being stacked on top of each other, threatened with dogs, and sexually abused.

A little over a month after winning the dismissal this summer, CACI requested that the former prisoners be ordered to pay $15,580 to cover the company’s legal expenses.

more (disturbing torture image at link)

http://www.popularresistance.org/abu-ghraib-torture-victims-ordered-to-pay-u-s-contractors-legal-fees/

[truebluegreen]

1. We are just determined to create as many terrorists as is humanly possible.

Something has to justify our military-industrial-surveillance budgets....

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Sick. And....

... getting sicker.

BTW... why do we accept into the language the term "defense contractor". Without even thinking about it.

There's no connection to "defense" involved. If you disagree, kindly consult a dictionary.

There may have been "contract"; but who cares? What difference does it make?

They are actually "war profiteers". They are in place as an entity to make a *profit* from the aftermath of an aggressive war of conquest.

[Fumesucker]

5. I prefer the term "Mercenaries"

Let's just say that even Machiavelli had a very dim view of mercenaries.

[Mnemosyne]

3. Unreal and sick. nt

[jsr]

4. He should have ordered them to apologize to their torturers.

[malaise]

6. They'll never get it

Fugg em!