Canada Awards $169 Million Deal To U.S. Company Sued Over Iraqi Abuse

Canada Awards $169 Million Deal To U.S. Company Sued Over Iraqi Abuse

Includes update.Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) announced this month it is awarding two contracts worth a total of $169 million to an American company whose subsidiary a federal jury in the United States last year found legally responsible for the abuse of three Iraqi men at an American-run prison.CACI is one of the latest American companies to win a major Canadian military contract despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promises to …

U.S. contractor found liable for Abu Ghraib torture wins $169 million Canadian defence deal

Guards stand at the entrance of a renovated Abu Ghraib prison in 2009. Canada’s Department of National Defence recently awarded contracts to a U.S. company linked to torture at the Iraqi prison in the early 2000s. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim, File) The Department of National Defence (DND) has awarded major contracts to a U.S. defence contractor recently found liable in a civil case over the torture of Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib.Earlier this month, th…