2013 - Abu Ghraib & Other Captive Torture Iraq - US Govt Contractor to Pay Tortured Captives

ꕤ Article SOURCE Archived News - 2013 http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-defense-contractor-pays-over-5-million-to-ex-abu-ghraib-inmates/ Times of Israel  / AP  - 2013 Summary: Engility Holdings Inc Chantilly, Virginia, USA US government defence contractor lawsuit:  conspiring to torture detainees at:   Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq Paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held Abu Ghraib (& at other US-run detention sites) between 2003 and 2007 L-3 Services Inc. (now an Engility subsidiary) provided translators to US military in Iraq over  6,000 translators in Iraq (at $450 million per annum contract) CACI International Inc. Arlington, Virginia, USA (another US government defence contractor) case expected to go on trial each of the 71 Iraqis received a portion Torture - Iraq mock execution (trigger pulling) wall slammed until unconscious stripped, bound (chain) & hooded, threatened with rape forced to consume so much water, vomited blood several captives raped & beaten kept naked extended periods of time 2003 to 2006 USA Defence Department paid $30.9 million to Iraqi & Afghan civilians re killings, injuries, property damage due to US or coalition forces' military actions US government is immune from lawsuits stemming from combatant activities of the military at war 2013 - Times of Israel: "Courts are still sorting out whether contractors in a war zone should be accorded legal immunity from being sued, just as the government is immune." In its defense four years ago against the lawsuit, L-3 said the fact that the claims in the case “cannot be brought against the government means that they also cannot be brought against L-3.” “No court in the United States has allowed aliens — detained on the battlefield or in the course of postwar occupation and military operations by the US military — to seek damages for their detention,” the company told the federal court four years ago. “Yet these plaintiffs bring claims seeking money damages for their detention and treatment while in the custody of the US military in the midst of a belligerent occupation in Iraq.” Allowing the case to proceed “would require a wholly unprecedented injection of the judiciary into wartime military operations and occupation conduct against the local population, in particular the conditions of confinement and interrogation for intelligence gathering,” L-3 added. http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-defense-contractor-pays-over-5-million-to-ex-abu-ghraib-inmates/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT The Iraqi torture victims didn't receive much:  $5.28 million between 71 victims is peanuts. Maybe the whole of Iraq should mount a class action lawsuit and get restitution for decades, seeing the entire Iraq war was illegal. If the US cannot be sued re 'war' military actions, why have US taxpayers paid:  $30.9 million to Afghans and Iraqis? And check out the $450-million American taxpayer money that went to the interpreters. And let's not forget the 2010 monthly costs borne by the American taxpayer, that's in the BILLIONS (and, no, that's not a typo): February 2010 Cost of War to USA Taxpayers Afghanistan - $6.7 billion per month Iraq - $5.5 billion per month Link  | Post Bankers must love war USA debt clock: Over $18 Trillion dollars payable to bankers by US taxpayers for generations ahead More US debt clocks: http://www.usadebtclock.com/ www.usdebtclock.org/ *I think that's 'trillions' ... but I'm no good at reading big numbers. ꕤ