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The unaccountables: forget the soldiers: the 25,000 civilian contractors in Iraq are an occupying army unto themselves. Some may have engaged in torture--and, by evident design, they can't be prosecuted for their crimes.
American Prospect, The, September, 2006 by McKelvey, Tara
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ONE DECEMBER NIGHT IN 2003, ADEL L. Nakhla, a chunky, broad-shouldered interpreter with a almost feminine voice, went to Cell 43 in Abu Ghraib's Tier 1A. He was accompanied by Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., a reservist convicted in January 2005 of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, to the cell where a former Baath Party member, A.A. (his attorney asked that his name not be used for safety reasons) was lying on a mattress. A.A. had been classified as a "high-value target" because of suspected terrorist activities.
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