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A judge has dealt a severe blow to a torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.At a hearing Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee tossed out claims that CACI conspired to torture the four men who filed the lawsuit. Some other claims can still go forward but will be difficult to prove.Lee also dismissed parent company CACI International Inc. from the suit. That leaves only a subsidiary, CACI Premier Technology, as a defendant.In the lawsuit, the former prisoners claimed CACI conspired in a pattern of abuse, including mock executions, beatings, and other humiliating treatment.Arlington-based CACI says its employees never even came in contact with the plaintiffs....
Abu Ghraib prison inmates rioted for a second straight day Friday to demand better conditions, setting fire to mattresses and seizing an assault rifle from a guard b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on the U.S. military's highest court asked Monday whether a "Catch-22" prevented the alleged ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib pr...
The American military said Thursday its new lockup near Baghdad airport to house security prisoners now held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison should be ready withi...
New images showing Iraqis abused by U.S. guards at Abu Ghraib prison three years ago threatened Wednesday to enflame public anger already running high over footage o...
The U.S. military said Thursday it would begin moving thousands of prisoners out of Abu Ghraib prison to a new lockup near Baghdad's airport within three months and ...
A high-ranking Army officer will be criminally charged in connection with the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, his attorney says.Lt. Col. Steven ...
An Army dog handler was sentenced Wednesday to six months behind bars for using his snarling canine to torment prisoners at Abu Ghraib .The military jury handed down...
Incessant attacks against Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib ( search ) prison may force the U.S. military to return the facility to Iraq's government and take their own...
The head of U.S. detention centers in Iraq said Saturday the military has no plans to close the Abu Ghraib ( search ) prison and blamed the abuse of detainees there...
Pentagon officials rejected an Army plan last year to send an experienced military lawyer — who is also a Republican member of Congress — to help oversee the unit bl...
American abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib ( search ) were terrible, but they are not crimes on par with beheadings and other acts carried out by terrorists, ...
A U.S. Army specialist broke down in tears Saturday as he admitted abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib ( search ) prison, receiving a lighter sentence in return for his t...
A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come unde...
A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come unde...
The convicted ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib was released Saturday from a military prison, an Army spokeswoman said.Charles Graner Jr., 42, was released...
A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to...
The Army says the alleged ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq has been released from prison.Spokeswoman Rebecca Steed said 42-year-old Charles Graner...
Seven years after the release of shocking images of tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the Supreme Court has turned back the appeal of 26 inmates from ...
New Jersey prison tactics resemble Abu Ghraib