Ex-Abu Ghraib prisoners sue US contractors, claim torture

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Four Iraqis announced Monday in Istanbul they are suing two US firms and their employees for allegedly torturing them at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdad five years ago.

Their lawsuit is against private security contractor CACI International and two of its interrogators, Daniel Johnson and Tim Dugan, and the translation agency L-3 (formerly Titan Corp) and its interpreter, Abel Nakhla, lawyer William Gould told AFP.

Their complaint was to be lodged Monday at courts in Maryland, Ohio and Washington -- the US states where the alleged torturers live -- as well as Michigan, where L-3 recruited most of its interpreters, said Gould in Istanbul, where he met with his clients from Iraq.

He said the court cases would show that the accused...