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U.S. defense contractor pays $5 million over Abu Ghraib abuse
A US defense contractor accused of helping torture prisoners at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid former detainees more than $5 million to settle a lawsuit, according to regulatory filings obtained by AFP on Wednesday. The plaintiffs, 72 former detainees, alleged that L-3 Services Inc. (now called Engility Holdings)…
Abu Ghraib remains scar on U.S. war efforts
He is now a schoolteacher, but Abu Mustafa admits he still sometimes has flashbacks to his 10 months in American custody at Iraq’s most infamous prison — Abu Ghraib. “I cannot forget, and I cannot describe, the hell that I lived,” said the 33-year-old father-of-two, who remains profoundly traumatised by…
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