June 10, 2004

Contractors in Iraq Face Class-Action Lawsuit

Two US companies that supplied interpreters and interrogators to the Pentagon have been hit with a class-action lawsuit in which they are accused of engaging in a conspiracy with unnamed government officials to torture and humiliate Iraqi prisoners in order to boost their profits. The civil lawsuit, filed in a California court on Wednesday, called for the companies - Titan Corp and CACI International - immediately to halt such activities, and to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the victims. Posted by Editor at June 10, 2004 05:23 PM