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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 09:54 AM
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250 former Iraq detainees claim torture in new US lawsuit

250 former Iraq detainees claim torture in new US lawsuit

Tue Dec 18

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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.

The court action also names two CACI employees -- Stephen Stefanowski, knowns as Big Steve, and Daniel Johnson, known as DJ -- accusing them of participating in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 10:01 AM
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1. Big Steve, and Daniel Johnson, known as DJ ?
Who would hire someone to interrogate innocent people with the names Big Steve and DJ? This country is currently real fecked up.

Don
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 04:04 PM
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2. kick n/t
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-19-07 04:05 PM
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3. They should file charges in
The Hague!
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