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Iraqis take contractors to court over Abu Ghraib

PRISON ABUSE In an attempt to hold civilian contractors responsible for torture, 13 people have filed suits against firms contracting services to American forces in Iraq

AP , NEW YORK

The defendants are Virginia-based CACI International Inc and Titan Corp of San Diego, suppliers of thousands of interrogators and translators to military units in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Also named as defendants are three civilian employees: interrogator Stephen Stephanowicz of CACI, and translators John Israel and Adel Nakhla of Titan. Israel worked for a Titan subsidiary. All three, the suits claim, committed acts of torture.

The private companies deny the allegations, which CACI called in a statement "a malicious and farcical recitation of false statements and intentional distortions."

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