The Independent reports
(January 9th):
Iraqi prisoners who allege they were tortured in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
are being paid $5.8m by the subsidiary of a US defence contractor accused of
complicity in their mistreatment.
The money will be paid to 71 former detainees of Abu Ghraib and other
US-controlled detention centres in Iraq, and is the first time that prisoners
have received money from a US defence contractor active in Iraq.
The claims were made against L-3 Services Inc, which provided linguists and
interrogators to the US military in Iraq, many of whom were used at Abu Ghraib.
L-3 Services is a subsidiary of Virginia-based Engility Holdings, which was spun
off from L-3 Communications, a major government contractor and Fortune 500
company which employs more than 50,000 people and had a turnover of more than
$15bn in 2011.
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