Sunday, July 04, 2004

Lawsuit against civilian contractors CACI, Titan

An Iraqi-born Swede's allegations of rape, sexual humiliation and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison were added Thursday to an ongoing lawsuit in San Diego against U.S. defense contractors.

The man, identified only by his last name, Saleh, says during his three months in captivity last fall he saw guards fire into a crowd of inmates, killing five. He says he also witnessed the rape of two young male detainees by one of his captors...

The alleged abuse occurred in the same prison where Saleh, a 42-year-old car dealer, says he was tortured in the 1980s for opposing Saddam Hussein. He fled to Sweden, but returned to Iraq last year following the U.S.-led invasion to invest in a car dealership or mechanic's shop.

Upon arrival in September, he was arrested and spent three months in U.S. custody, according to his lawyers.

In November, Saleh says in the lawsuit that he saw guards shoot randomly into a crowd of Abu Ghraib detainees. Saleh said he saw two men wounded in the shooting die slowly, without receiving medical treatment...

On another occasion, Saleh claims in the lawsuit, he watched as an unidentified man wearing a T-shirt and military fatigues stripped two young male detainees naked, bound their hands and raped them in front of Saleh and 30 other detainees, Akeel said. Saleh and the others were warned that if they told anyone they would be raped too, the lawsuit said.

The abuses Saleh allegedly suffered in Abu Ghraib included:

A belt tied around his neck and he was dragged 70 feet;

Left naked and hooded for extended periods of time;

Urinated on and sodomized while his hands were tied over his head;

Shot in the chest with plastic bullets as he tried to pray;

Roped by the genitals to 12 other naked prisoners;

His penis was stretched with a rope and beaten with a stick.

Saleh did not want his full name used because of the shame he feels, Akeel said.

At night, Saleh says in the lawsuit that he heard the screams of female prisoners whom he believes were being raped.
  KCAL9 article

He's probably lying. That's what the defendants say.

As a matter of fact, there is still the issue of the videos and photos as mentioned by Sy Hersh and others that are allegedly worse than anything we've been shown to date.

Humans can be sick fucks.

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