10.01.2013 - 09:32 [ Press TV ]

2nd US contractor faces suit for role in Iraq‘s Abu Ghraib torture scandal

The legal case against Virginia-based CACI International comes as another defense contractor, Engiligy, also based in the state of Virginia where the Pentagon is located, recently paid USD5.28 million to settle a legal complaint filed on behalf of dozens of former Iraqi torture victims while in custody of US military contractors in Abu Ghraib and other American-run detention sites throughout Iraq during the invasion, The Washington Post reports Thursday.