Family members of injured and deceased military members filed a lawsuit against five companies Tuesday, alleging that the corporations did business with the Iraq government while it funded terrorist groups during the Iraq War.
The suit, filed against General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and several European drugmakers, claims that military members killed in attacks between 2005 and 2009 died in part because these companies were conducting business with the Iraq Ministry of Health. Moktada al-Sadr followers controlled the Ministry at the time, and have since been charged with operating death squads against Iraqi Sunnis which U.S. troops were defending, according to the New York Times.
“While Americans worked to rebuild Iraq, many were attacked by a terrorist group that we allege has been funded in part by the defendants’ corrupt sales practices,” litigator Josh Branson said.
“It’s unconscionable to have U.S. companies give money to terrorists who then kill U.S. troops,” said plaintiff Ami Neiberger-Miller, whose brother was killed in Baghdad in 2007 by a device linked to Sadr’s militia. – READ MORE
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