An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was tortured while being held at the Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal suit claims that employees of CACI International and L-3 Communications Holdings punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a bed frame and kept him naked and handcuffed in his cell beginning in September 2003. Also named as a defendant is CACI interrogator Steven Stefanowicz. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles because Stefanowicz lives there, seeks unspecified monetary damages.
Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam's prison diaries that it obtained from U.S. authorities. In the excerpts, Saddam also described having an intimate conversation with his American doctor about women.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
