{"id":19203,"date":"2013-09-16T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2013-09-16T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:29:19","slug":"abu-ghraib-torture-victims-ordered-to-pay-u-s-contractors-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/09\/abu-ghraib-torture-victims-ordered-to-pay-u-s-contractors-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractor’s Legal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ABu-Ghraid-torture\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By Christina Wilkie<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the former prisoners in 2008, alleging that CACI employees directed the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The suit<\/span>\u00a0was dismissed in June<\/span><\/a><\/span>, when U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee<\/span>\u00a0ruled<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that because the alleged acts took place on foreign soil, CACI was \u201cimmune from suit\u201d in U.S. court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee did not, however, directly address the question of whether CACI employees took part in the mistreatment of prisoners. The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib exploded into an international scandal in 2004, when shocking photos emerged of prisoners being stacked on top of each other, threatened with dogs, and sexually abused.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little over a month after winning the dismissal this summer, CACI\u00a0<\/span>requested<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the former prisoners be ordered to pay $15,580 to cover the company\u2019s legal expenses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawyers for the Iraqis disputed that their clients should pay CACI\u2019s bills, partly because the Iraqis had \u201cvery limited financial means, even by non-U.S. standards, and dramatically so when compared\u201d to CACI, according to a court filing. Moreover, they wrote, the initial claims against CACI, involving \u201cserious claims of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and war crimes were dismissed on very close, difficult \u2014 and only recently arguable \u2014 grounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Attorneys for the Iraqi prisoners have said they<\/span>\u00a0plan to file an appeal<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0of the June dismissal this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

CACI did not respond to a request for comment on the ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n

The massive defense contractor has long denied allegations that its employees abused or directed others to abuse prisoners at Abu Ghraib. A<\/span>\u00a0statement on CACI\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0notes that \u201cNeither CACI nor any of its employees have been found or proven to be involved in\u201d or \u201cparticipated in\u201d or \u201ccharged\u201d with abuse, nor have they been indicted for \u201cdirecting abuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2008, CACI\u2019s executive chairman, J. Phillip \u201cJack\u201d London, wrote a book in defense of the company titled\u00a0Our Good Name: A Company\u2019s Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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