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Inside the prisons at Abu Ghraib run by Saddam Hussien during his 35-year regime taken in May 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. Prisoners kept at Abu Ghr stanley cup aib prison - the biggest in the Middle East - were held in overcrowded and inhumane cells and were often subject to beatings, torture, and executions.Benjamin Lowy鈥擥etty ImagesBy Mallory MoenchApril 14, 2024 7:00 AM EDTA U.S. military contractor is about to head to trial over allegations that it participated in a conspiracy to torture detainees at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War鈥?0 years after infamous images of the abuse were seen around the globe. The plaintiffs, three Iraqis detained and tortured at stanley cup Abu Ghraib, originally sued military contractor CACI, which provided interrogators for the prison stanley cups , in 2008. Now the civil trial, which is expected to last two weeks, is scheduled to start Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. The legal proceedings represent the first time Abu Ghraib victims will present their claims to a U.S. jury, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the plaintiffs, has said.CACI has denied wrongdoing and argued in court filings over the years that the plaintiffs didnt allege its interrogators directly inflicted abuse or sufficiently prove they directed it.Charles Tiefer, a retired law professor and former commissioner of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008 to 2011, says this trial is enormously important. The rulings and judgment in th Abbs Watch Clinton Describe Her Ideal Supreme Court Justice
Sen. Elizabeth Warren one of several Democrats running for the party s nomination in the 2020 presidential race, speaks during a campaign event, March 8, 2019 in the Queens boro ugg ugh of New York City.Drew Angerermdash;Getty ImagesBy Madeleine CarlisleOctober 12, 2019 2:09 PM EDTThe tension between 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and social media giant Facebook continued this week as Warren campaign ran a series of Facebook ads falsely claiming that Mark Zuckerberg endorsed President Donald Trump for reelection.Warren ad targets Facebook policy that states ads by politicians are exempt from third-party fact-checking, essentially giving candidates a possible platform to spread misinformation. It a policy that the Democrat presidential candidate has repeatedly criticized.The ad reads: Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebo adidas samba ok just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election. You ;re probably shocked, and you might be thinking, how could this possible be true ; Well it not. Sorry. But what Zuckerberg *has* done is given Donald Trump free rein to lie on his platform and then to pay Facebook gobs of money to push out their lies to American voters.Warren, who campaigns on breaking up big tech companies like Facebook and Google because they have an outsized influence, tweeted salomon on Saturday that the fake ad was designed to see just how far Facebook policy would let her campaign go. 8
Inside the prisons at Abu Ghraib run by Saddam Hussien during his 35-year regime taken in May 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. Prisoners kept at Abu Ghr stanley cup aib prison - the biggest in the Middle East - were held in overcrowded and inhumane cells and were often subject to beatings, torture, and executions.Benjamin Lowy鈥擥etty ImagesBy Mallory MoenchApril 14, 2024 7:00 AM EDTA U.S. military contractor is about to head to trial over allegations that it participated in a conspiracy to torture detainees at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War鈥?0 years after infamous images of the abuse were seen around the globe. The plaintiffs, three Iraqis detained and tortured at stanley cup Abu Ghraib, originally sued military contractor CACI, which provided interrogators for the prison stanley cups , in 2008. Now the civil trial, which is expected to last two weeks, is scheduled to start Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. The legal proceedings represent the first time Abu Ghraib victims will present their claims to a U.S. jury, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the plaintiffs, has said.CACI has denied wrongdoing and argued in court filings over the years that the plaintiffs didnt allege its interrogators directly inflicted abuse or sufficiently prove they directed it.Charles Tiefer, a retired law professor and former commissioner of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008 to 2011, says this trial is enormously important. The rulings and judgment in th Abbs Watch Clinton Describe Her Ideal Supreme Court Justice
Sen. Elizabeth Warren one of several Democrats running for the party s nomination in the 2020 presidential race, speaks during a campaign event, March 8, 2019 in the Queens boro ugg ugh of New York City.Drew Angerermdash;Getty ImagesBy Madeleine CarlisleOctober 12, 2019 2:09 PM EDTThe tension between 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and social media giant Facebook continued this week as Warren campaign ran a series of Facebook ads falsely claiming that Mark Zuckerberg endorsed President Donald Trump for reelection.Warren ad targets Facebook policy that states ads by politicians are exempt from third-party fact-checking, essentially giving candidates a possible platform to spread misinformation. It a policy that the Democrat presidential candidate has repeatedly criticized.The ad reads: Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg and Facebo adidas samba ok just endorsed Donald Trump for re-election. You ;re probably shocked, and you might be thinking, how could this possible be true ; Well it not. Sorry. But what Zuckerberg *has* done is given Donald Trump free rein to lie on his platform and then to pay Facebook gobs of money to push out their lies to American voters.Warren, who campaigns on breaking up big tech companies like Facebook and Google because they have an outsized influence, tweeted salomon on Saturday that the fake ad was designed to see just how far Facebook policy would let her campaign go. 8