Abu Ghraib torture lawsuit against multi-billion-dollar U.S. Army contractor at last headed for trial



This image of Abu Ghraib prisoner Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh being tortured became infamous across the world. He was told if he moved or fell off the block he would be electrocuted. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

Twenty years after the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq in the wake of 9/11, a lawsuit against a company that provided “interrogator services” for the U.S. Army at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison finally seems headed to trial.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, in a little-noticed order on July 31, denied defendant CACI Premier Technology Inc.’s motions to dismiss the case.


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