- Emad al-Janabi says he was tortured by the contractors' employees.
Posted on 05/06/2008 7:48:49 AM PDT by SmithL
An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors Monday, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months.
Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a bed frame and kept him naked and handcuffed in his cell beginning in September 2003.
Also named as a defendant is CACI interrogator Steven Stefanowicz, known as "Big Steve." The suit claims he directed some of the torture tactics.
Phone messages left for Arlington, Va.-based CACI and New York City-based L-3 Communications, formerly Titan Corp., were not immediately returned Monday. There was no phone number listed for Stefanowicz at his Los Angeles address.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles because Stefanowicz lives there, seeks unspecified monetary damages.
The firms provided interrogators or interpreters to assist U.S. military guards at Abu Ghraib, which became notorious when photos were made public in early 2004 showing U.S. soldiers abusing and humiliating detainees. Military investigators later concluded that much of the abuse happened in late 2003 - when CACI and Titan's interrogators were at the prison.
CACI and L-3 were accused of abusing Abu Ghraib prisoners in earlier lawsuits. In November, a federal judge in the District of Columbia dismissed the suit against L-3 but allowed the one against CACI to proceed.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey, al-Janabi said he hopes the lawsuit sheds light on what happened to him and other detainees.
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- Emad al-Janabi says he was tortured by the contractors' employees.
Must be a new source of legal income to be had...
He’s still alive.....should count himself lucky.....his compatriots would have mutilated one of ours.....I have no empathy.
He’s still alive.....should count himself lucky.....his compatriots would have mutilated one of ours.....I have no empathy.
Sorry....guess the system thought it was worth saying twice...
My main problem with torture is that we’d better make damn sure we have a real, high-value terrorist before we do it. Given that this guy was released with no charges, it appears all the torture did was give us bad press and foment resentment towards us.
Alive and living in L.A. Now all his buddies just need to move here and set up shop in the legal sector and milk our economy dry with frivolous lawsuits....maybe we have spread too much western democracy to Iraq?
He was part of the money shot. He was not charged with any crime and released. When you use outsource and use private companies the system lets them get sued.
I would be pretty pissed my self it had happened to me.
He’s in Turkey, not Kalifornia.
He’s having flashbacks to the Saddam days.
This is right out of the playbook and you're falling for it bigtime.
Awesome video link!
Cheers,
OLA
It's just common sense. I can see no better way of antagonizing the local populace than torturing a bunch of innocent civilians who might have been on our side in the first place.
You believe they were tortured, I don’t. Let’s wait and see what the verdict is.
If this lawsuit sets a precendence then he will soon be in Kalifornia.
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