In March 2006 four US troopers from the one hundred and
first Airborne Division gang raped a fourteen year recent Iraqi lady and
murdered her and her family —including a five year recent kid. Another soldier
was concerned within the cover-up.
One of the killers, Steven inexperienced, was found guilty
on might 07, 2009 within the US District Court of Paducah and is currently
awaiting sentencing.
The leaked Public Affairs steering place the one hundred and
first media team into a "passive posture" — withholding data where
potential. It conceals presence of each kid victims, and describes the rape
victim, who had simply turned fourteen, as "a young woman".
The unleash, by CBS News, of the images showing the heinous
sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi POW's at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail opened
a Pandora's Box for the Bush regime wrote Ernesto Cienfuegos in La Voz de
Aztlan on might a pair of, 2004.
Journalist Cienfuegos any states “Apparently, the suspended
US commander of the jail where the worst abuses occurred, Brigadier General
Janis Karpinski, has refused to require the autumn by herself and has
implicated the CIA, Military Intelligence and personal US government
contractors within the torturing of POW's and within the raping of Iraqi girls
detainees similarly.”
The US Army's Criminal Investigation Division didn't begin
its investigation till 3 and a half months once the crime, news reports at that
point commented.
This is not the sole grim image starting off of Iraq U.S.
forces being accused of using rape as a war weapon.
Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade,
described a high-pressure Military Intelligence and CIA command that prized
successful interrogations. A month before the alleged abuses and rapes
occurred, she said, a team of CIA, Military Intelligence officers and personal
consultants below the use of the US government came to Abu Ghraib. "Their
main and specific mission was to relinquish the interrogators new techniques to
induce additional data from detainees," she said.
At least one image shows a US soldier apparently raping a
feminine prisoner whereas another is claimed to indicate a male translator
raping a male detainee.
Further images are said to depict sexual assaults on
prisoners with objects together with a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent
tube.
Another apparently shows a feminine prisoner having her
clothing forcibly removed to show her breasts.
Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio
Taguba, the previous army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib
jail in Iraq.
Allegations of rape and abuse were included in his 2004
report however the actual fact there have been images was never revealed. He
later confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2009.
The London newspaper any noted “graphic nature of a number
of the photographs might make a case for the US President Obama’s tries to dam
the discharge of an estimated a pair of thousands images from prisons in Iraq
and Afghanistan despite an earlier promise to permit them to be revealed.”
Maj. Gen. Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he
supported the President’s call, adding: “These footage show torture, abuse,
rape and each indecency.
“The mere description of those footage is horrendous enough,
take my word for it.”
In April, Mr. Obama’s administration said the images would
be released and it'd be “pointless to appeal” against a court judgment in favor
of the US Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
But once lobbying from senior military figures, Mr. Obama
modified his mind saying they may place the security of troops in danger.
In May, he said: “The most direct consequence of releasing
them, I believe, would be to inflame anti-American public opinion and to place
our troops in bigger danger.”
In April 2004, new images were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from
confidential sources depicting the surprising rapes of 2 Iraqi girls by what
are alleged to be US Military Intelligence personnel and personal US
mercenaries in military fatigues. it's currently known, Cienfuegos wrote in 2004,
that many these images had been in circulation among the troops in Iraq. The
graphic photos were being swapped between the troopers like baseball cards.
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