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Topic: U.S. contractor to pay $5.28 million
to Abu Ghraib prisoners |
U.S. contractor to pay $5.28 million
to Abu Ghraib prisoners
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/8/2013 11:21:53 PM
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| Washington - A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007. The settlement in the case involving Engility Holdings Inc. of Chantilly, Va., marks the first successful effort by lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers to collect money from a U.S. defense contractor in lawsuits alleging torture. Another contractor, CACI, is expected to go to trial over similar
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Comments:
And, the atrocities against US continue,with more to come. It may only be money, but when 71 detainees divide it up [their share], as terrorist, they can buy a whole lot of neverending vengeance.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rubinski, 1/9/2013 12:34:47 AM (No. 9106236)
Worlds gone crazy
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/9/2013 1:13:04 AM (No. 9106263)
A million here and a million there; adds up to some serious money. How much will be used against US ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Subal, 1/9/2013 1:27:32 AM (No. 9106269)
It´s only $74,366 per person!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
aasilver, 1/9/2013 2:06:34 AM (No. 9106288)
You can´t make this stuff up. Liberals are killing this country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/9/2013 2:52:29 AM (No. 9106318)
How much does $5.28 million buy in arms these days?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
srhcb, 1/9/2013 6:09:47 AM (No. 9106409)
Minus the lawyers $24,788.67 per peron fee.
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