Three survivors of Abu Ghraib prison will have their day in court against the military contractor responsible for their mistreatment.
Some photos had a soldier smiling and giving a thumbs up while posing next to a corpse, or detainees being threatened with dogs, or hooded and attached to electrical wires. Photo: AP Archive
The plaintiffs, though, seek to hold CACI responsible for setting the conditions that resulted in the torture they endured, citing evidence in government investigations that CACI contractors instructed military police to “soften up” detainees for their interrogations. Former Al-Jazeera reporter Salah Al-Ejaili said he was subjected to stress positions that caused him to vomit black liquid. He was also deprived of sleep, forced to wear women's underwear and threatened with dogs.
In one of CACI's appeal arguments, the company contended that the US enjoys sovereign immunity against torture claims and that CACI enjoys derivative immunity as a contractor doing the government's bidding. The two sides have differed on whether his testimony establishes that soldiers were working under the direction of CACI interrogators.Both the plaintiffs and CACI have complained that their cases have been hampered by government assertions that some evidence if made public, would divulge state secrets that would harm national security.
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