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ARCHIVE: Abu Ghraib, Iraq – 17 May 2004
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1. Pan along line of prisoners with heads not visible
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press:
"It’s been two decades since the photos came out that sort of shock the world at Abu Ghraib. You know, they were sort of horrified prisoners, you know, stacked in naked pyramids, subjected to electric shocks, all those sort of things with U.S. soldiers smiling in the background. And what we’ve had here now in Alexandria, Virginia, a jury has awarded $42 million to three of those detainees against… It’s an it’s a verdict against U.S. based military contractor, CACI."
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3. STILL, artist sketches depict Salah Al-Ejaili, foreground with glasses, a former Al-Jazeera journalist, before the U.S. District Court
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ARCHIVE: Arlington, Virginia — 30 June 2008
4. STILL photo of CACI International Inc. building
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press:
"CACI provided the interrogators. They provided civilian interrogators to supplement the military effort at Abu Ghraib. And the jury found that those interrogators were complicit and conspired with the military police to soften up detainees for questioning with abusive treatment."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press:
"Well, certainly the plaintiffs and the plaintiffs’ lawyers, a nonprofit group called the Center for Constitutional Rights, they filed this lawsuit on the plaintiffs’ behalf. They, of course, celebrated the verdict and said that it does send a message to contractors that they need to be responsible for their actions in war zones."
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STORYLINE:
A U.S. jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago.
The decision from the eight-person jury came after a different jury earlier this year couldn’t agree on whether Reston, Virginia-based CACI should be held liable for the work of its civilian interrogators who worked alongside the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004.
The jury awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae $3 million each in compensatory damages and $11 million each in punitive damages.
The three testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.
They did not allege that CACI’s interrogators explicitly inflicted the abuse themselves, but argued CACI was complicit because its interrogators conspired with military police to “soften up” detainees for questioning with harsh treatment.
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