Vance and Ertel were described by their attorney, Mike Kanovitz of Chicago, as being in their early thirties. He said the two Americans went to Iraq in the fall of 2005 to work for the Iraqi-owned contracting firm of Shield Group Security.
The suit filed in 2006 alleges that while working for the company they saw fellow employees making payments to "certain Iraqi sheikhs" and dealing in armaments in a way they believed would not be approved by the U.S. military.
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The suit said their actions provoked suspicion at the company and on April 14, 2006, fellow employees confiscated the identity cards that allowed them to enter the safe area known as the Green Zone.
The two men said they locked themselves in a room, called the Embassy for help and were extricated by "United States forces" who took them to the Embassy where they were taken into custody.
They were taken to two military camps in the Baghdad vicinity in the weeks that followed, the suit said. It said Ertel was released after a month and Vance after two months.
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The two men are seeking unspecified damages. The next hearing is set for March 25. -->-->-->
If going forward with this it should lead to more then just hearings on the treatment, with this opening the doors, as to detainees, many innocent and now released, in the two theaters, at Gitmo and at any of the secret CIA prisons anywhere as to not only International Law, which we preach we follow as we helped write, but our own Domestic Laws!
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