A defense contractor accused of allowing employees to abuse
prisoners in Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-run prisons in Iraq settled
a lawsuit filed by former detainees for $5.28 million. The money,
paid more than two months ago by Engility Holdings Inc. of
Chantilly, Va., was divided among 71 Iraqis who alleged abuse at
the hands of the contractors, most of whom served as interpreters
during the early years of the Iraq war. L-3 Services Inc., the
defendant in the lawsuit and a subsidiary of
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