Iraqi PM Probes Police Rape Allegations

[sabra]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-rape,0,6199922.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Iraqi PM Probes Police Rape Allegations

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an investigation Monday into allegations by a Sunni Arab woman that she was raped by three members of the Shiite-dominated police force after she was detained over the weekend.

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The allegations are potentially explosive at a time of rising tensions between Shiites and Sunnis as the United States begins a security operation to restore order in the capital.

The 20-year-old married woman said the ordeal began when police commandos raided her house early Sunday in the Amil district of western Baghdad while her husband was not home. She said the commandos accused her of cooking for Sunni insurgents and took her to a police garrison where the attack occurred.

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She said a neighbor alerted U.S. soldiers about the arrest and they released her after the attack.

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Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal questioned the allegation, saying "something like this could not happen because Iraqi forces are operating with U.S. forces at all times."

[Kagemusha]

1. But to be honest, how much angrier can the Sunnis get here?

Is there some untapped reserve of anger that they haven't sunk down to yet that would lead to even more insurgency and terror? Can it get even worse, or have we already maxed out horror and hatred?

[sabra]

2. some say that it's still not a full fledge civil war

not sure what that means though?

[rodeodance]

4. 'I did not know that an Iraqi could do this to another Iraqi.'"

"One of them put his hand on my mouth so no one outside the room could hear me," she said in a videotape taped by Associated Press Television news. "I told them 'I did not know that an Iraqi could do this to another Iraqi.'"

She said a neighbor alerted U.S. soldiers about the arrest and they released her after the attack.

U.S. spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said he could not confirm any U.S. role in her release but that the military "will support the Iraqi government in its investigation."

[rodeodance]

3. well, this is one excuse?????????

.......Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal questioned the allegation, saying "something like this could not happen because Iraqi forces are operating with U.S. forces at all times."

[Kagemusha]

5. My first thought was...

"What, the Americans follow them into the john, too?"

Well, this is not going to take long to debunk.

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[maddezmom]

7. Iraqi PM dismisses rape accusation against police

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has dismissed allegations that police had raped a Sunni woman and ordered that the officers she accused be commended.

A religious body, the Sunni Waqf or "endowment", had raised a storm by claiming officers from the mainly-Shiite police had raped Sabrin al-Janabi on Monday in the Al-Amel neighourhood in southwestern Baghdad.

Maliki promised a full investigation, and just four hours later a second statement from his office exonerated the officers and accused the Waqf of spreading propaganda to undermine the security forces.

"It appeared that after a medical investigation that Sabrin al-Janabi had not been sexually abused at all," the statement from Maliki's office said.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070220/wl_afp/iraqjusticerape_070220070142