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STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Plaintiffs in this action are Iraqis who were mistakenly detained in
prisons operated by the United States military during 2003 and 2004.
According to military reports, up to 90 percent of the persons imprisoned in
Iraq were innocents arrested by mistake. 1 All of the Plaintiffs fall into this
category of persons, as each was voluntarily released by the military without
any charges, convictions, or referrals to Iraqi authorities. During their
tenures in prison, Plaintiffs were victims of serious abuse.
The Saleh Plaintiffs learned from the military’s own reports that there
were two corporate actors complicit in this abuse, Titan Corporation (now L-
3) and CACI. L-3 employees served as translators; CACI employees served
as interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison. After learning of the corporate
complicity in the abuse, the Saleh Plaintiffs brought suit in June 2004,
alleging that L-3 translators conspired with others and abused them.
Thereafter, the Ibrahim Plaintiffs filed suit in the District Court for the
District of Columbia, alleging similar conduct, although without alleging
any involvement by military personnel.
Defendants successfully sought to transfer the Saleh lawsuit, which
was consolidated with the Ibrahim lawsuit in the District Court for the
1 RS.112, Appendix C-9, at 37 (military report estimates that 85% - 90% of
the detainees were of no intelligence value).
2