A US weapons contractor accused of torturing workers in Iraqi Kurdistan is now in federal custody, according to a statement by the Department of Justice issued on Friday. Fifty-two-year-old Ross Roggio was arrested late on Thursday in Pittston, Pennsylvania, on charges alleging that he tortured a victim in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2015, his mother told Fox News-affiliated channel WFXR. According to federal prosecutors, the Pennsylvania man was accused of suffocating one of his employees, threatening to cut off the victim’s finger and forcing Kurdish soldiers to participate in the tortur…