APNewsBreak: $5M paid Iraqis over Abu Ghraib abuse

UPDATED 19:26 PM EST, January 8, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007.

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