iraqi blogger raed... 15 yr old raped... and more

[seabeyond]

A few months ago, Abir was just another 15 year old Iraqi girl in a small town called Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad. Both of her parents are from the Al-Janabi tribe, one of the biggest tribes with Sunni and Shia branches.

Omar Al-Janabi, a neighbor and relative of Abir, was informed by Abir’s mother that the young girl was being harassed by U.S. soldiers stationed in a nearby checkpoint. That is why Abir was sent to spend the night in her neighbor’s home. The next day, Omar Al-Janabi was among the first people who found Abir with her 34 year old mother Fakhriyah, her 45 year old father Qasim, and her 7 year old sister Hadil murdered in their home. Abir was raped, killed by a bullet in her head, and then burned on the 12th of March, exactly two weeks before her “sweet sixteen” birthday.

Muhammad Al-Janabi, Abir’s uncle, reached the house shortly after the attack as well. Iraqi police and army officers informed him and other angry relatives that an “armed terrorist group” was responsible for the horrifying attack. This is exactly what the angry relatives of the 24 Iraqi civilians killed in Haditha four moths before this incident were told as well; In that case, U.S. officials initially claimed that a roadside bomb planted by terrorists had killed the 24 Iraqi civilians and one U.S. soldier in Haditha.

Unlike the case of Haditha where Iraqi public opinion was furious about the massacre months before it reached to the U.S. mainstream media, the Iraqi press had not even heard of Abir until the U.S. army accidentally found out information about her while investigating another incident. This raises questions about the number of other similar cases that were never investigated and were blamed on non-occupation parties instead.

http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

[WhiteTara]

1. I have thought that many of these

vicious attacks were our soldiers, or our mercenaries.

[Kagemusha]

2. There's a lot more that aren't though.

Rumsfeld called it what, democracy in action? Freedom in action? I forget. But the insurgency's so big that the crime problem is just totally out of this world. What US troops slip in is probably just a drop in the bucket compared.

[WhiteTara]

3. I don't believe that

I believe that the troops are out of control and the mercenaries have never had any. The bodies drilled with electric drills and other horrors are John Negroponte's MO. Rumsfeld and crew have said, go ahead, do as you will, beat that general to death, we'll give you a medal.

Agent provocatuers are a CIA specialty.

The minute we are gone, I would bet that violence would slow to a trickle.
JMHO :shrug: