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December 29, 2015

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

Article
SOURCE
Archived News - 2013


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/



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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


Bankers must love war

USA debt clock:

Over $18 Trillion dollars payable to bankers
by US taxpayers for generations ahead

More US debt clocks:




*I think that's 'trillions' ... but I'm no good at reading big numbers.