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novapsycheAccording to military officials, the investigation will also encompass the role of private contractors in military prisons, after a military investigation found that two such firms, CACI International Inc and The Titan Corporation, played a central role in interrogation of prisoners and translation.
Neither company has returned repeated calls seeking comment, but an official at Titan told an American newspaper that his company supplied translators to the military.
Peter Singer, an expert on the privatisation of war at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and the author of a book on the subject, Corporate Warriors, said: "My sense is that the practices at Abu Ghraib are an aberration. However, my sense is that the contracting-out of interrogation is not limited to Abu Ghraib.
"We've pushed the boundaries of this far beyond everything we'd conceptualised. These contractors were originally intended for lawn-mowing at bases," he said.
British troops in torture scandal
Neither company has returned repeated calls seeking comment, but an official at Titan told an American newspaper that his company supplied translators to the military.
Peter Singer, an expert on the privatisation of war at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and the author of a book on the subject, Corporate Warriors, said: "My sense is that the practices at Abu Ghraib are an aberration. However, my sense is that the contracting-out of interrogation is not limited to Abu Ghraib.
"We've pushed the boundaries of this far beyond everything we'd conceptualised. These contractors were originally intended for lawn-mowing at bases," he said.
British troops in torture scandal