Blackwater and CACI Cases

DEMOCRACY NOW!:

* EXCLUSIVE...Blackwater Sued Again For Sept. 9th Attack, Five Iraqis Dead,
Ten Wounded *

The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing another lawsuit today against
the private military firm Blackwater‹this time for a shooting in Baghdad on
September 9th that left five people dead and ten injured. The lawsuit is
being filed on behalf of the family members of one those killed in the
shooting. We speak with attorney Susan Burke.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/19/exclusiveblackwater_sued

* TV BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi Witnesses, Victims Describe Blackwater
Shooting in Harrowing Detail *

Democracy Now! broadcasts, for the first time on television, graphic new
details about Blackwater¹s Sept. 16th shooting in Nisoor Square in Baghdad.
We hear from three Iraqis who were caught up in the attack: a traffic
policeman who witnessed the shootings up close and tried to help the
victims, a computer technician on his way to buy a gift who was shot in the
arm, and a doctor whose wife and son were shot and burned to death in the
attack.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/19/broadcast_exclusive_iraqi

* Military Contractor CACI Accused of Widespread Abuse in Suit Brought By
256 Prisoners Held in Iraqi Jails *

256 prisoners held at prisons in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib, filed a lawsuit
on Monday against the private military contractor, CACI. The suit alleges
the prisoners were repeatedly sodomized, threatened with rape, kept naked in
their cells, subjected to electric shock, attacked by unmuzzled dogs and
subjected to serious pain inflicted on sensitive body parts. The suit
alleges that employees of CACI directed soldiers to mistreat the prisoners.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/19/military_contractor_caci