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Rumsfields decided to punish a company involved in the torture of prisoners with a 6 month $400 million contract! Damn... I wish I could be punished like this...

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By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO - Defense contractor Titan Corp. will continue to provide translators and interpreters in Iraq (news - web sites), where at least two employees were implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the Army announced Friday.

Titan employs more than 4,500 people worldwide under the translator contract, with many assisting U.S. forces in Iraq, according to the Army.

The six-month contract, with an option for six more, has a potential value of up to $400 million. It is the San Diego-based defense contractor's largest single source of revenue.

The Army translator contract was due to expire Sept. 30. The Army halted the process of re-awarding the contract when a small Delaware company protested. The Army's Intelligence and Security Command then decided to award Titan a shorter "bridging contract" to ensure work continued, Army spokeswoman Deborah Parker said.

"This was the option we chose to exercise to ensure that the mission, which was very essential to the Department of Defense (news - web sites), continue," Parker said.

A recently released investigation by Army Maj. Gen. George Fay found two Titan civilian translators, who were not named, contributed to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

One female employee allegedly failed to report detainee abuse. A male employee allegedly beat and may have raped a detainee. The Fay report recommends the information be forwarded for possible criminal prosecution and that "appropriate contractual action" be taken.

Titan spokesman Wil Williams said he did not know the identities of the two employees or whether they were still worked for the company or its subsidiaries.

"It's beyond our imagination and it violates our corporate policy for any employee to stand by silently or to participate in events such as those that went on in Abu Ghraib," Williams said.

Titan recently fired an Arabic translator at Abu Ghraib. Adel L. Nakhla told Army investigators he was present during some of the abuses at the prison, including having naked, hooded detainees formed into a human pyramid. An Army investigation named Nakhla as a suspect.

Titan is also one of two defense contractors named in a federal racketeering lawsuit filed here in June that accuses the companies of conspiring to torture, rape and kill Iraqi prisoners. Titan has called the lawsuit "frivolous."