U.S. troops accused of rape and murder
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By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer
10 minutes ago
BEIJI, Iraq - The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It's the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops.
Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldiers_investigated
10 minutes ago
BEIJI, Iraq - The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It's the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops.
Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldiers_investigated
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what is the definition of "isolated" again?
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Nevertheless, they are in iraq and they are doing these things.
Maybe this is a lesson. In dire circumstances people do bad things. Instead of labeling them bad - perhaps we can work to improve circumstances and cooperation. If it is really terrorism we are afraid of, and not dominance and superiority.
Couldn't agree more!
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so in the unlikelihood that the alleged rapist did it because it's what he feels is right, then should he be put to death for following his feelings?
can you describe a situation where someone could rationalize raping someone as being the right thing?
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
.....yeeeeeaaaaaaaah raping a girl, killing her family, burning her body is a good tactic??
from the original link mr brian posted
"At least 14 American troops have been convicted in other cases"
"He also said the four people killed included three adults and a child, and one of the adults was the woman who allegedly was raped"
"One of the accused soldiers already has been discharged "
"The killings appeared to have been a "crime of opportunity," the official said. The soldiers had not been attacked by insurgents but had noticed the woman on previous patrols."
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Good, yes...the best...obviously no. We could have had the decency of sawing off her head with a machette on live tv. THAT's obviously the "in" tactic.
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And desire and love and empty things
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Absolutely not.
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And desire and love and empty things
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I personally can't but what if someone feels that it's right? Are you going to impose your beliefs (as right as you and I might think they are) on them by putting them to death?
The soldier, 101st Airborne veteran Steven Green, also faces charges of shootingthree of her relatives, in a murky, and apparently horrific night of terror and death in war-torn Iraq in mid-March.
The US media and international media have chronicled the flurry of allegations of atrocities against US soldiers in rich detail, in incidents like the Abu Ghraib scandal, and alleged Haditha massacre.
But allegations contained in court documents accompanying the charges against Green were the most grisly and detailed allegations of misconduct yet
He spent time with comrades on the evening of March 11, drinking, and talking about having sex with a young Iraqi civilian who lived with her family about 200m away, prosecutors alleged.
Then, according to an affidavit which accompanied a warrant for Green's arrest, they changed into dark clothes and burst in on the house.
Green "covered his face with a brown t-shirt" according to one identified soldier who allegedly went to the house with Green and two others and who was cited in the document.
The FBI affidavit claims Green herded an adult male, an adult woman and a female child into a bedroom - before gunshots were heard
"I just killed them. All are dead," Green is alleged to have told his comrades.
The young woman's terrible final moments can only be surmised from the neutral legalise of the affidavit, which cites photos taken at the crime scene - and appears to hint at an attempt to cover-up the alleged incident.
"These photos also depict the burned body of what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso," the documents alleged.
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19678171-5001028,00.html
Iraq wants U.N. oversight in rape-murder case
Justice minister calls alleged attack on woman, her family ‘monstrous’
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s justice minister demanded Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council ensure a group of U.S. troops is punished for allegedly raping and murdering a young Iraqi woman and executing her family, calling the attack “monstrous and inhuman.” http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13696479/
Why does the IRAQ JUSTICE MINISTER can't even make his own country justice system work in that case? Or is there really a ministery working in Baghdad? Is it a democracy when you cannot protest, raise you voice or just go to work, without the fear of being killed, rape or kidnap? Is it a democracy when the Prime Minister of Iraq say that the human rights violations are even worse than under Saddam, but nobody care to talk about it in the medias as if the Iraqi PM was just another insurgents?
Anyway, it's clear, the USA failed in Iraq, time to get out and pay the price ($$) of your errors, happy 4th of july!
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yeah.
the shit's just crazy.
But the US are far from leaving, they still need to finish off (check link)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-19-us-embassy_x.htm
People need to wake up.
thanks for the link:
"only one major U.S. building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: the massive new American embassy compound."
fucking pathetic but yet i'm not surprised at all...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So in your mind this is just a little less bad because of the beheadings?