Monday, June 30, 2008 : Former Abu Ghraib detainees sue contractors claiming they were tortured. Four former detainees from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have launched federal legal cases in the US claiming they were tortured by US military contractors. The prisoners - three Iraqis and one Jordanian - say they were subjected to forced nudity and electrical shocks, among other inhumane treatments. They allege that the defendants, including Virginia-based CACI international and New York-based L-3 Communications, wrongfully arrested Iraqi civilians. "These innocent men were senselessly tortured by US companies that profited from their misery," said lead attorney Susan L. Burke, of the Philadelphia law firm Burke O'Neil. "These men came to US courts because our laws, as they have for generations, allow their claims to be heard...
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