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Iraq Rape-Murder Hearing Reveals Horrifying Details

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Posted on Aug 6, 2006

The specifics of this case are made more sickening by the fact that they did not occur in a vacuum. Several cases of U.S. forces killing unarmed Iraqi civilians are pending in military courts, and they have badly mangled America’s already bad image in the region.


N.Y Times:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7—A former American soldier who is accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi and killing her and three members of her family told fellow soldiers that “all Iraqis are bad people” after his unit began taking heavy casualties, according to testimony at an American military hearing on Sunday.

The former soldier, Steven D. Green, a private who was discharged in May after a psychiatric evaluation, also sought help for combat stress while deployed in Iraq, according to his former battalion commander, Lt. Col. Thomas Kunk.

Colonel Kunk was one of four witnesses who testified on Sunday. The hearing, which is expected to continue for several days, is the latest chapter in the prosecution of the case involving Mr. Green and five active-duty soldiers, all of whom are accused of involvement in the rape and killings on March 12 in the town of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.

The case, one of several recent ones in which American soldiers have been accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians, has embarrassed the American military, infuriated Iraqis and strained relations between the American authorities in Baghdad and their Iraqi counterparts.

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By abuse, October 6, 2007 at 5:36 am Link to this comment
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every war make soldiers to loose their minds and so al that hateful stuff. i don’t mean that they are inocent but first of all we should judge those who provide wars. all of us know their names.

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By Hilding Lindquist, August 6, 2006 at 11:50 pm Link to this comment
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Pogo: “Yep, son, We have met the enemy and he is us.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo#.22We_have_met_the_enemy…..22

Jesus, why have we forsaken thee?

“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” - Matthew 5:9

http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Mat/Mat005.html#9

The irony of our current leaders calling us a Christian nation is numbingly sickening.

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By GreginOz, August 6, 2006 at 9:22 pm Link to this comment
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Stephen Green is merely an example in microcosm of what American imperialism represents. Can ANY non-Westerner see all the ‘good’ that the USA does? Oooh, yeah baby, they see…

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