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More Americans charged in Iraq rape-murder case
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<b>More Americans charged in Iraq rape-murder case</b>


7/9/2006 2:00:00 PM GMT


Four U.S. soldiers have been charged with the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and killing the rest of her family, bringing to 5 the number of U.S. military men accused in the crime that took place in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, last March, the U.S. military said on Sunday.


A fifth soldier has been accused of dereliction of duty for failing to report the case.


"On July 8, 2006, the four soldiers were charged in connection with their alleged participation in the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and three members of her family," the 101st Airborne Division said in a statement.


The fifth soldier "was charged with dereliction of duty for his failure to report the rape and murder of these Iraqi civilians, but is not alleged to have been a direct participant in the rape and killings.


"All are charged with conspiring with former Private First Class Steven D. Green to commit these crimes."


“Personality disorder”


Last week, former soldier Steven Green, 21, was accused of carrying out the rape and killings on March 11 in Mahmoudiya, just south of Baghdad.


Court documents show that Green was discharged from the army due to a “personality disorder” before the Mahmoudiya case came to light.


Green pleaded not guilty in federal court in Kentucky.


Prosecutors said that Green shot and killed an Iraqi man, woman and child and then grabbed the 15-year old Iraqi girl, raped her then killed her.


A U.S. official, who demanded not to be named, said that Green and other soldiers who were manning a checkpoint close to the girl’s house, spent nearly a week plotting an attack on the family house, south of Baghdad to rape her.


According to Justice Department affidavit, three soldiers accompanied Green into the house, and another monitored the radio while the rest carried out their crime.


A U.S. military statement challenged the charges raised against the soldiers, describing them as "merely an accusation. Those accused are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."


The statement did not identify the soldiers newly charged in the crime.


The four soldiers will face an Article 32 investigation, similar to a grand jury hearing in civilian law. The Article 32 proceeding will decide whether there is enough evidence to put them on trial.


• Muslims’ Condemnation


The Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential Sunni organisation in Iraq, issued a strong condemnation over the rape of the Iraqi girl and the brutal killing of her family by U.S. troops.


"Raping this girl then mutilating her is shameful and will remain as a sign of shame to American invaders," the organisation said in its statement.


"The mean behavior and terrible violations committed by the invaders show the truth of the ugly American face and shows that their claims of supporting humanity and liberation are false," said the Sunni association.


"We call the world and all humanitarian organizations as witnesses to this ugly crime and urge them to face the American recklessness that went way too far".


http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=11648

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#2

I would rather have death than Rape.


as a father / brother / husband a soilder rather kill my lady than rape her.


For any women to be violated in this filthy way is worse than animals. for animals do not even rape.


These are our women , muslim sisters being put through this


i am angry

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#3

You will never hear it like this on the news, then again things are improving in Iraq!


Do not be fooled, this is not a one off. Many sisters are imprisoned and are raped at will by the Americans.


http://www.jusonenews.com/index.php?option...sk=view&id=3445


RAPED: Shocking Eyewitness Testimony Of US Rape, Murder In Iraq


Written by By Muhammad Abu Nasr | Free Arab Voice


Monday, 03 July 2006


Mafkarat al-Islam has published a disturbing report on the rape and murder case in March that the American military have now been compelled to investigate. The report noted that the number of rapes of Iraqi women committed by US occupation troops is already legion and continues to climb. Both Mafkatate Al-Islam and JUS have repeatedly reported that many women have been victimized within Abu Ghurayb and the other prisons; while many others have fallen prey to the rapists in American uniform who prowl the large prison that is occupied Iraq. In addition, there have be numerous reports that the wives and daughters of Iraqi women are being used to “soften up” detainees however this has fallen on deaf ears for the past the three years.


But there is one case of rape that has come to the surface in recent days, which stands out for a savagery and brutality that goes beyond all bounds.


On an afternoon in March 2006, a force of 10 to 15 American troops raided the home of Qasim Hamzah Rashid al-Janabi, who was born in 1970 and who worked as a guard at a state-owned potato storehouse. Al-Janabi lived with his wife, Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, and their four children – ‘Abir (born 1991), Hadil (born 1999), Muhammad (1998), and Ahmad (1996).


The Americans took Qasim, his wife, and their daughter Hadil and put them in one room of their house. The boys Ahmad and Muhammad were at school at the time the Americans invaded the home about 2pm. The Americans shot Qasim, his wife, and their daughter in that room. They pumped four bullets into Qasim’s head and five bullets in to Fakhriyah’s abdomen and lower abdomen. Hadil was shot in the head and shoulder.


After that, the Americans took ‘Abir into the next room and surrounded her in one corner of the house. There they stripped her, and then the 10 Americans took turns raping her. They then struck her on the head with a sharp instrument, according to the forensic medical report, knocking her unconscious and smothered her with a cushion until she was dead. Then they set fire to her body.


The neighbor of the martyred family told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Isla the following:


“At 2pm a force of Americans raided the home of the martyr Qasim, God rest his soul. They surrounded him and I heard the sound of gunfire. Then the gunfire fell silent. An hour later I saw clouds of smoke rising from the room and then the occupation troops came quickly out of the house. They surrounded the area together with Shi‘i ‘Iraqi National Guard’ forces, and they told us that terrorists from al-Qa‘idah had entered the house and killed them all. They wouldn’t let any of us into the house. But I told one of the ‘National Guard’ soldiers that I was their neighbor and that I wanted to see them so that I could tell al-Hajj Abu al-Qasim the news about his son and his son’s family, so one of the soldiers agreed to let me enter.


“So I went into the house and found in the first room the late Qasim and his wife and Hadil. Their bodies were swimming in blood. Their blood had spewed out of their bodies with such force that it had flowed out from under the door of the room. I turned them over but there was no response; their lives were already gone.”


The neighbor continued his account:


“Then I went into ‘Abir’s room. Fire was coming out of her. Her head and her chest were on fire. She had been put in a pitiful position; they had lifted her white gown to her neck and torn her bra. Blood was flowing from between her legs even though she had died a quarter of an hour earlier, and in spite of the intensity of the fire in the room. She had died, may God rest her soul. I knew her from the first instant. I knew she had been raped since she had been turned on her face and the lower part of her body was raised while her hands and feet had been tied.


By God, I couldn’t control myself and broke into tears over her, but I quickly extinguished the fire burning from her head and chest. The fire had burned up her breasts, the hair on her head, and the flesh on her face. I covered her privates with a piece of cloth, God rest her soul. And at that moment, I thought to myself that if I go out talking and threatening, that they would arrest me, so I took control of myself and resolved to leave the house calmly so that I could be a witness to tell the story of this tragedy.


“After three hours the [American] occupation troops surrounded the house and told the people of the area that the family had been killed by terrorists because they were Shi‘ah. Nobody in town believed that story because Abu ‘Abir was known as one of the best people of the city, one of the noblest, and not Shi‘i, but a Sunni monotheist. Everyone doubted their story and so after the sunset prayers the occupation troops took the four bodies away to the American base. Then the next day they handed them over to the al-Mahmudiyah government hospital and told the hospital administration that terrorists had killed the family. That morning I went with relatives of the deceased to the hospital. We received the bodies and buried them, may God have mercy on them.”


“Then we decided that we must not be silent so we asked the mujahideen to respond as quickly as possible. They responded with 30 attacks on the occupation in two days, bringing down more than 40 American soldiers. But our blood was still not cooled, so we decided to go to al-‘Arabiyah satellite TV to tell them the story since it is a station that broadcasts in Iraq. But al-‘Arabiyah paid no attention to us and said we were liars. They told us that their policy was to rely on official announcements issued by the American army, and that they were not able to get into a story over which they had no power. This was told to us by the al-‘Arabiyah correspondent Ahmad as-Salih. So we went to local newspapers and they slammed the doors in our faces because we are Sunnis and the rape victim was a Sunni girl. But the Resistance fighters told us that God does not allow the blood of any Muslim to be lost, and they told us to patiently persevere and we would see such a punishment for the blood of ‘Abir and her family, for the violation of the honor of our sister, a punishment that would make people’s hair stand on end.


“I personally wasn’t surprised that Umm ‘Abir [‘Abir’s mother] came to me on 9 March 2006 and asked that ‘Abir be allowed to spend the night with my daughters. She was afraid because of the way the occupation troops looked at her when she went out to feed the cows. I agreed to that because there was an occupation forces’ command post just 15 meters from Qasim’s house, God rest his soul. But frankly I thought it unlikely that anything would happen to the girl because she was only something like 16 and she was just a little girl. But I agreed and she spent one night at our place and then went back to her home in the morning. We had no idea that the occupation troops would carry out heir crime in broad daylight.”


The neighbor concluded:


“The occupation troops came last Friday – that is, one day before the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent visited the scene of the crime – and asked the people of the area to exhume the body of ‘Abir to conduct tests on it. And they also asked me to provide eyewitness testimony and I will go anywhere to make sure that justice is served.”

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#4

When troops are found to have done any wrong like that with proof then they are punished for a very long time.


For example, the people at Abu Ghraib are being sentenced and tried as I write this. They are getting 11 year jail terms for what they did.


There are and have been hundreds of thousands of American troops in Iraq. There are going to be isolated incidents like this but as I just explained those people get what they deserve.


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How about the good news in Iraq? I take offense in the title of the thread Muslimah. "The truth" is that the vast majority of Americans in Iraq are doing their jobs...many don't even agree with it, but they do it. Bad things happen. It's horrible. Anybody who commits murder or rape deserves punishment...severe punishment. But don't apply those evil doers to the entire American military. I don't lump all Muslims into the beheader crowd. Just earlier today US forces turned over complete control of an entire Iraqi province to Iraq's new government and military.

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Quote:For example, the people at Abu Ghraib are being sentenced and tried as I write this. They are getting 11 year jail terms for what they did.

These rapist should be hung. 11 years is not enough for the rape of my muslim sisters.


Nations like these have raped from colonial days, no diffrent to the filth that raped in Chechnya Vietnam so fort.


I guess this is the price for democracy, one or Thousand of Muslim babies dying, Our women raped is a small price for you


If I have the opportunity to conffront personally a Rapist like this, I will show em wot pain is

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Quote:These rapist should be hung. 11 years is not enough for the rape of my muslim sisters.


Nations like these have raped from colonial days, no diffrent to the filth that raped in Chechnya Vietnam so fort.


I guess this is the price for democracy, one or Thousand of Muslim babies dying, Our women raped is a small price for you


If I have the opportunity to conffront personally a Rapist like this, I will show em wot pain is

I agree 11 years wouldn't be enough for rape...I agree.


Did I say that it was a "price for democracy". Did Sadaam Hussain's henchmen ever rape and torture your muslim sisters? Did you complain then?

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#7

Bismillah:




Quote:I don't understand why you are getting so bent out of shape about rape during war time. islamic doctrine condones the rape of captured women during war time.

huh?


of course you are wrong... rape of women captured during war is completely prohibited in Islam, rather islam gave men the permission to have sexual intercourse with their slave girl and this did certainly not mean that muslim men could rape their female slaves (female prisoners of war)


“The Prophet pbuh clearly said, <b>“There shall be no infliction of harm on oneself or others". </b>



‘Others’ includes all people, so also slavegirls ! Raping a slavegirl is clearly doing her harm (emotional and physical) which would be a big sin for a muslim to commit and violation of the above hadith. Moreover the prophet pbuh commanded muslims to treat their slaves well and with respect, which clearly proofs that rape of female slaves is forbidden in islam. The prophet pbuh also said: <b>Your servants and your slaves are your brothers. Anyone who has slaves should give them from what he eats and wears. He should not charge them with work beyond their capabilities. If you must set them to hard work, in any case I advise you to help them.</b>



Salam


Wael.

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Bismillah


Johndoe, I m sure u know better than this :) , unless you want to trigger and already covered point for Curious to discuss.


I would gladly take the time and reply, however, Wael Alhamdulelah did cover it although it was already covered long time ago on a thread you yourself started....


I m still trying to put things in order after restoring the database and Insh aAllah will sum up the controversial under one thread Insh a Allah for better access to users.


Bismillah


Curious, I m sorry you are feeling this way. However, unfortunately the anti American sentiments are really growing in this area.


Coming along with democracy is not really appealing to us Muslims. What i see, and this is a personal opinion, is that the US is striving to introduce democracy as an alternative to Islam. Thus, they are decorating it as much as possible for Muslims to sowllow it and see no harm in applying it instead of Islam.

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Quote:Bismillah


Curious, I m sorry you are feeling this way. However, unfortunately the anti American sentiments are really growing in this area.


Coming along with democracy is not really appealing to us Muslims. What i see, and this is a personal opinion, is that the US is striving to introduce democracy as an alternative to Islam. Thus, they are decorating it as much as possible for Muslims to sowllow it and see no harm in applying it instead of Islam.

I also think that democracy may not be suitable for Islam. However, blame the policy makers here, not the solidiers...they don't have a choice. Most of them are doing their job and want what is best for the Iraqi people.

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#10

2:10 There is a disease of deception in their heart; and Allah lets their disease increase, and they shall have painful punishment for the lies they have told.


2:11 When it is said to them: "Do not make mischief on earth," they say: "We make peace."


2:12 Be aware! They are the ones who make mischief but they do not realize it.


The war in Iraq is a war on Islam.


After the death of communism, Islam is the only ideology left which the west wish to get rid of.


As for Sadam raping our sisters, he was a very loyal American agent and he was only working towards the greater American agenda for the region. Sadam was the head of Ba'athist party which was a communist party. Correct me if I am wrong but communists do not believe in a creator...

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