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Human Rights Group Tries to Cash In on Abu Ghraib
2004-06-10
Knew it had to happen sooner or later. EFL, for full story, you have to sit through one of Salon’s lame ads. Sorry, but only place I found the story.....
An unusual racketeering lawsuit filed by unsuccessful ambulance chasers human rights lawyers accuses U.S. civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq of conspiring to execute, rape and torture prisoners to boost corporate profits from military payments. One person, identified in court documents only as a prisoner named Rasheed, told lawyers his tongue was shocked with electricity and his toenails pulled out. Another person, identified only as a prisoner named Ahmed, said he was forced to watch the Home Shopping Network while his 63-year-old father, Ibrahiem, was tortured to death.
I would think if this happened, the media would have been all over it already. Maybe Ahmed is having flashbacks from Saddam’s reign?
A plaintiff identified only as a prisoner named Neisef told lawyers he was raped by a female interrogator who left him naked on the floor, saying "It is our job to take your manhood away."
Fascinating how an allegation like this isn’t in the official report.....
"An' then... an' then she raped me, yer honor! She had these big ol' honkers! A' she stole my manhood right away! I've... I've... [SOB!] I've never seen it again!"
Shereef Akeel, a Detroit lawyer, said the people he helps represent in the case were trying on their neck braces and practicing their limping as we speak! hoping to cash in really soon! "subjected to unspeakable crimes." The lawsuit seeks "substantial" payments for the crack legal squad who dreamed this crap up alleged victims and a ban on future government contracts for Titan Corp. (TTN) of San Diego and CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Va., whose employees worked as government interrogators and translators. Titan spokesman Wil Williams called the lawsuit "frivolous" and noted that the government has not formally accused any of its employees of abuse.
A mere technicality to a lawyer....they’re just after a settlement, silly!
CACI said the company "summarily rejects and denies the ill-informed, slanderous and malicious allegations of the lawsuit that attempts to malign the work that we do on behalf of the U.S. government around the world and in Iraq." Michael Ratner, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, cited a litany of international rules against torture and abuse and said, "Unfortunately, in this case, our administration and a number of contractors are outside the law."
As opposed to Chirac, Arafart, Saddam, Binny and the rest of the gang who ALWAYS follow the Geneva Convention and UN resolutions.....
The lawyers acknowledged difficulties tracing eyewitness reports of abuse, because most of what they are alleging didn’t happen some U.S. soldiers in Iraqi prisons didn’t always wear uniforms and some civilian contractors wore military clothing. Contractors "were very careful in masking their identity," said Susan Burke, a Philadelphia lawyer leeching off working on the lawsuit.
"We may never find out who that sex-crazed bitch was!"
Posted by:Desert Blondie

#6  This sort of money-raking proposition smells simular to what Fenton Communications did with the Alar scare.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-06-10 8:56:33 PM  

#5  ....raped by a female interrogator who left him naked on the floor, saying "It is our job to take your manhood away

ima have dream like that about german teacher

Posted by: HalfJustVisiting   2004-06-10 7:38:05 PM  

#4  Just a quick question: Just how do you get raped by a woman? I may lack imagination here but if one is under this kind of stress, one cannot get a rise out of his 'manhood'. Did she tie him down face-up and sit on him? did she.......I quit!!!
Posted by: kwame   2004-06-10 4:54:18 PM  

#3  In light of the frivolous and malicious nature of this lawsuit, as well as the apparent lack of any pre-filing investigation of the facts, the company stated it is examining its options for sanctions against the lawyers who participated in the filing of this lawsuit".

Hopefully some of those sacntions will include shuttering the Center which conceived this monster.
Posted by: badanov   2004-06-10 4:27:44 PM  

#2  pfeh....raped by a female interrogator who left him naked on the floor, saying "It is our job to take your manhood away

take his manhood AWAY?? In his dreams, no doubt.
Posted by: B   2004-06-10 2:28:52 PM  

#1  CAI CACI Intl rejects lawsuit as 'slanderous' and 'malicious' (37.87 -0.69) -- Update --

In reaction to lawsuit filed by Bew York-based human rights group co states: "CACI rejects and denies the allegations of the suit as being a malicious recitation of false statements and intentional distortions. CACI does not have and has never had any agreement with Titan Corp or anyone else pertaining to conspiring with the government, or to perpetrate abuses of any kind on anyone. CACI has never entered into a conspiracy with the government,or anyone else, to perpetrate abuses of any kind.... The company has not, nor have any of its employees, been charged with any wrongdoing or illegal acts relating to any work in Iraq. The lawsuit filed against CACI falsely alleges that CACI had contracts for interrogation work in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Similarly, named defendant John Israel is not, and has never been, an employee of CACI. These falsehoods and inaccuracies simply demonstrate the utter lack of investigation prior to filing suit by the entities ultimately behind this lawsuit... In light of the frivolous and malicious nature of this lawsuit, as well as the apparent lack of any pre-filing investigation of the facts, the company stated it is examining its options for sanctions against the lawyers who participated in the filing of this lawsuit".
Posted by: busybody   2004-06-10 2:22:14 PM  

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