Judge dismisses much of torture suit against CACI
BY: Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At a hearing in U.S. District Court, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee tossed out claims that CACI conspired to torture the [...] |
Judge awards $21M in Somali torture suit
BY: Associated Press McLEAN, Va. — A U.S. judge on Tuesday awarded $21 million to seven people who sued a former prime minister of Somalia now living in Virginia, claiming he tortured and killed his own people more than two decades ago. The judgment against Mohamed Ali Samantar, 76, of Fairfax comes after an eight-year legal battle that [...] |
Somali ex-official seeks immunity from torture lawsuits
BY: Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — A lawyer for the former prime minister of Somalia told a federal appeals court Wednesday that a judge improperly acquiesced to the State Department’s view that his client can be sued over alleged war crimes. Mohamed Ali Samantar is appealing U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s ruling that he is not entitled to [...] |
Yoo immune from suit over Bush-era ‘torture memos’
BY: Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist’s lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who wrote the so-called torture memos of authorizing illegally harsh treatment of enemy combatants. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo is protected from such lawsuits because the law defining torture and the treatment [...] |
Citizen recalls ‘humiliating’ post-9/11 arrest
BY: Associated Press  LOS ANGELES — Handcuffed and marched through Washington’s Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of the four planes hijacked in 2001 took [...] |
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