Ex-Abu Ghraib inmates sue US firms for torture

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Four Iraqis 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 in Istanbul on Monday.

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 who met his Iraqi clients in Istanbul.

He said the court cases would show that the accused were in Abu Ghraib and...