• "Borrowed servants"? PMCs and sadism at Abu Ghraib

  • Sep 26 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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"Borrowed servants"? PMCs and sadism at Abu Ghraib

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    Alia is joined by the international criminal lawyer Katherine Gallagher to explore her litigation against a prominent PMC for war crimes at Abu Ghraib. Katherine talks us through the sixteen-year legal fight on behalf of former Iraqi detainees, the various defences invoked by CACI Premier Technology Inc., and the decision-making around whether to prosecute corporations or individual contractors. She also discusses her role in the case brought against Caterpillar Inc. for the death of Rachel Corrie, and how private corporations involved in warfare are on notice now much more so than twenty years ago.

    “CACI has largely been saying since the time the first cases were filed… Anything that we were doing, we were doing in service of the United States and therefore we can't be held liable.”

    The Guns for Hire podcast is written, produced and hosted by Dr Alia Brahimi.

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