Iraqis appoint prosecutor over troops' rape case

[Barrett808]

MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Local Iraqi officials have appointed a prosecutor to investigate the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family, for which five U.S. soldiers are already charged in a U.S. military court.

The mayor of Mahmudiya, the town near Baghdad where the family of four was killed, told Reuters on Wednesday a local committee set up to investigate the case would present its findings to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The rape case, the fifth involving serious crimes being investigated by the U.S. military in Iraq, has outraged Iraqis and led Maliki, a close Washington ally, to call for a review of foreign troops' immunity from Iraqi prosecution.

"This committee is responsible for preparing all the circumstances to achieve this investigation. Hopefully we will manage to present it to the cabinet," said mayor Muayyad Fadhil.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/ts_nm/iraq_rape_dc

[saigon68]

1. nothing will come of this

[Iwasthere]

3. Have we become THAT desensitized ?

That we could even suggest that nothing would become of this one. The war machine seems to be winning.

MY GOD! What those soldiers did was sick. Murdering a family for sex with a young girl. This is certainly not an isolated case. This is happening more than we know over there.

Do you remember squirrel hunting during Vietnam war? Where they flew low to ground in copters and shot women and children in the back in the rice patties as they ran away.

What have we become?

[saigon68]

10. They aimed "LOWER" when they shot the children

Ask Rusty Calley



MY LAI




WAR CRIMINAL CHIMP KILLS IN IRAQ-NAM

[CollegeDUer]

4. Actually it's a huge step

Because in the past our own government would run investigations, not the Iraqis. If the Iraqis are able to force the coalition to force our people to obey THEIR laws (obeying the sovereign country's laws -- that's just crazy!), then they are making progress.

[0007]

11. I'd like to think that your right. But I don't think it works that way.

They would be extraditing this man if that was the case.

Steven Dale Green is a former Private First Class in the United States Army who is charged with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi and murdering her and three of her family members in the village of Mahmudiyah while on active duty in Iraq.

He grew up in Midland Texas where junior obtained all his moral values.

[samsingh]

2. it's a rape and murder case - not just a rape case.

[gratuitous]

5. Isn't that odd that the headline would name just the rape?

Ah, prolly doesn't mean anything at all. Used the shorter word because of space considerations in the headline.

But I'm inclined to agree that nothing will come of the Iraqi civil investigation. The military will stonewall, refuse to cooperate with the indigenous civilian authorities, and the accused will never be judged by the people they are supposed to have wronged. At least, not in a courtroom.

[samsingh]

8. and they keep doing it in most headlines

[Barrett808]

9. I saw "rape-slay" yesterday...

...so that's progress, of a sort.

[rodeodance]

6. also says that the US military does NOT recognize this committee.

He said the U.S. military did not recognize the committee which is made up of the ma

[The Stranger]

7. The perpetrators will not be in the U.S. military forever.

Other courts may recognize the indictment regardless of military whitewash. There is no statute of limitations for murder.