Privatized Torture:

Iraqi citens have filed a class-action suit against two US contracting companies they accuse of "conspiring with U.S. officials to torture and abuse prisoners in Iraq."

According to Reuters, "the suit alleges San-Diego based Titan Corp. and CACI International of Arlington, Virginia, engaged in 'heinous and illegal acts' to show they could get intelligence from detainees, and thereby obtain more government contracts.

Employees from both firms, which provided interrogation and translation services in Iraq, were named in a report on Iraqi prison abuse by U.S. Army investigator Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba...

The lawsuit said plaintiffs were hooded and raped, subject to repeated beatings and stripped naked and one was allegedly forced to watch his father tortured and abused so badly that he later died.

Other complaints included being urinated on and otherwise humiliated and being prevented from praying, said the lawsuit. "