The following story contains descriptions of violence that may be disturbing to some readers. The Department of Justice arrested a Pennsylvania man Thursday on torture charges for acts he allegedly committed in 2015 while working in Iraq. These new counts are in addition to a 2018 indictment that charges he illegally exported gun parts and tools from the United States to Iraq as part of a weapons project in Kurdistan, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the DOJ’s Criminal Division said Friday in a statement. The accused, Ross Roggio, 53, owns a construction consulting firm: Roggio Consulting Company, LLC, in Stroudsburg. Roggio’s company struck a business deal with Kurdish authorities in which he managed the construction of a weapons factory to produce weapons for Kurdish soldiers in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the indictment says. As part of this arrangement, Kurdish soldiers were made available to Roggio. An …