Witness describes scene of horror in Iraq rape case

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO625960.htm

BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - An Iraqi army medic described a scene of horror to a U.S. military hearing on Sunday that will decide if four U.S. soldiers are to be court-martialled for the murder and rape of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family.

The medic, who was not named, said that when he entered the house in Mahmudiya in March, he found 14-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi naked with her legs spread and burned from the waist up, with a single bullet wound beneath her left eye.

He also told the hearings he had found her six-year-old sister in an adjacent room with the back of her head blown out, and the bodies of both parents riddled with bullets.

[KingFlorez]

1. Good lord

And these people are supposed to be better off than before? This is disgusting.

[wakeme2008]

2. From the AP piece

According to an FBI affidavit, the soldiers drank alcohol before abandoning their checkpoint, changed clothes and headed to the victims' house, about 200 yards from a U.S. military checkpoint in a Sunni Arab area south of Baghdad. The soldiers are also accused of setting fire to the girl's body to destroy evidence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/06/AR2006080600081.html

So this has nothing to do with War Stress... They drank and changed clothes and then raped... :grr:

[madokie]

4. calculated and carried out. These guys if guilty are animals

and should be turned over to the Iraqi people for them to do with as they please, IMO

[cali]

5. Nope.

They should be tried by the Military (though Green is being tried in civilian court) and punished accordingly. Vengeance sucks, and that's all that turning them over to the Iraqis would amount to.

[madokie]

8. aww but it felt good on the fingers while typing

but you are right

[cali]

3. Yesterday's NYT

had a chilling piece about this war crime. Evidently, the perpetrators were amoung the first investigators of the crime: taking pictures of the girl they'd raped and killed and the rest of the family that they'd murdered.

[DemforNagin]

6. Well, IF any of this is proven....

And I stress "IF", (Sorry, I'm not going to convict just yet) then those responsible should be thrown to the Iraqi wolves.

[blonndee]

7. Not convicted yet, but the confessions make me pretty damned

sure it's true. How about you?