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Defense contractor CACI (KA'-kee) is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying it was doing the U.S. government's work as a supplier of interrogators.
Associated Press Writer
Defense contractor CACI (KA'-kee) is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying it was doing the U.S. government's work as a supplier of interrogators.
CACI International and a sister company, CACI Premier Technology, say in court documents that they'll employ that defense in a dismissal motion they plan to file next week in federal court in northern Virginia.
CACI and L-3 Communications are accused in separate lawsuits of participating in a conspiracy to torture detainees in 2003 and 2004.
Three other lawsuits - filed earlier this year in Seattle, Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio - have been merged into the case against L-3. That case is pending in federal court in Maryland, but L-3 wants it moved to the same court as the CACI case.
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